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قشر

1 قَشَرَهُ ذ , aor. قَشِرَ and قَشُرَ , inf. n. قَشْرٌ; and ↓ قشّرهُ , (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَقْشِيرٌ; (S;) He divested or stripped it of, or stripped off or removed from it, namely a branch, (S, Msb,) or other thing, (S,) its قِشْر [i. e. peel, rind, bark, coat, covering, husk, shale or shell, crust, scab, skin, or outer integument, or superficial part; he, or it, pared, peeled, rinded, barked, decorticated, husked, shelled, scaled, flayed, skinned, or excoriated, it; he, or it, stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer covering or integument, or superficial part]; (S, Msb;) but the ↓ latter verb has an intensive signification; (Msb;) [or denotes frequency, or repetition, of the action, or its application to many objects, as well as muchness;] he pared off, or removed, its peel, rind, bark, or the like, (لِحَآءَهُ,) or its skin: (M, K:) [and he pared, peeled, stripped, scraped, or rubbed, it off; namely, anything superficial, and generally a thing adhering to the surface of another thing, as, for instance, peel and the like, and a scab, and skin, and mud. One says of a fruit, or the like, يُقْشَرُ عَنْ حَبَّةٍ, Its covering, being removed, shells off from a grain or the like.] ― -b2- قَشَرَهُ بِالسَّوْطِ [He excoriated him with the whip]. (TA, art. حمر.) ― -b3- قَشَرَهُ بِاللِّسَانِ (assumed tropical:) [He galled him, as though he flayed him, with the tongue; i. e., with reproof, &c.] (TA, ibid.) -A2- قَشِرَ, aor. قَشَرَ , It (a date) had a thick skin. (TA.) -A3- قَشِرَ, (TA,) [aor. قَشَرَ ,] inf. n. قَشَرٌ, (S, TA,) He had his nose excoriated by intense heat: or (tropical:) he was intensely red, as though he were flayed, (M,) or as though his scarf-skin were peeled off. (TA.) 2 قَشَّرَ see 1. 5 تَقَشَّرَ see 7. 7 انقشر ذ and ↓ تقشّر quasi-passives of قَشَرَهُ and قَشَّرَهُ, respectively; [It became divested, or stripped, of its peel, rind, bark, coat, covering, husk, shale or shell, crust, scab, skin, or superficial part; it became pared, peeled, rinded, barked, decorticated, husked, shelled, scaled, flayed, skinned, or excoriated; its superficial part became stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed: and it peeled off; it scaled off, or exfoliated:] (S, M, K:) both signify the same: (S:) [or the latter, as quasipass. of قشّره, has an intensive signification; or denotes frequency, or repetition, of the action, or its application to many subjects, as well as muchness: and the same also signifies it became divested, or stripped, of its peel, &c. part after part: and it peeled off, or scaled off, part after part.] قُشْرٌ ذ . ― -b2- القُشْرَانِ [dual], with damm, (K,) or ↓ القِشْرَانِ , (so written in a copy of the M,) The two wings, (K,) or the two thin wings, (M,) of the locust. (M, K.) قِشْرٌ ذ The covering of a thing, whether natural or accidental; (M, K;) i. e., of anything; (M;) [the exterior part, peel, rind, bark, coat, crust, integument, skin, or covering, of a branch, plant, fruit, or the like; a coat such as one of those of an onion or other bulbous root, as is shown in the K, voce مُصَّاخٌ; a case, husk, shale, shard, or shell, such as covers a seed or seeds or an egg; a crust, a scab, a substance consisting of scales or laminæ and any similar thing, that peels off from the skin &c.; the skin of fruits &c.;] of a branch [and the like], the part which is like the skin of a human being; and hence the قِشْر of a melon and the like: (Msb:) pl. قُشُورٌ. (S, M, Msb, K.) ↓ قِشْرَةٌ is a more particular term [signifying A piece, or particle, of peel, rind, bark, &c.]: (S:) and likewise signifies the skin of a هَبْرَة [or piece of flesh-meat] which remains when its liquor has been sucked; as also ↓ قُشْرَةٌ . (M.) ↓ قُشَارٌ also signifies the same as قِشْرٌ: and likewise the skin [or slough] of a serpent. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] قِتْرٌ also signifies (tropical:) The dress, or apparel, of a man; (S;) any dress, or apparel: (M, K:) and a garment; (TA;) as also ↓ قِشْرَةٌ : (M, TA:) and the pl. is قُشُورٌ. (M, K.) You say, عَلَيْهِ قِشْرٌ حَسَنٌ (tropical:) [Upon him is goodly apparel]. And خَرَجَ بَيْنَ قِشْرَتَيْنِ نَظِيفَتَيْنِ (tropical:) He went forth in two clean garments. (TA.) And in a trad. of Keyleh it is said, كُنْتُ إِِذَا رَأَيْتُ رَجُلًا ذَا رُوَآءٍ وَذَا قِشْرٍ طَمَحَ بَصَرِى إِِلَيْهِ (tropical:) [I used, when I saw a man of goodly aspect, and of apparel, to raise my eyes towards him]. (S.) ― -b3- [Hence, also,] ↓ قُشَارٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) The refuse, or lowest or basest or meanest sort, of mankind, or of people. (IAar, in TA, arts. بشر and خشر.) See also قُشَارَهٌ. ― -b4- And see قُشْرٌ. تَمْرٌ قَشِرٌ ذ Dates, or dried dates, having much قِشْر [or skin]; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ قَشِيرٌ . (TA.) See قَشِرَ. قُشْرَةٌ ذ : see قِشْرٌ: ― -b2- and see قَاشِرَةٌ. قِشْرَةٌ ذ : see قِشْرٌ, in two places. قُشَرَةٌ ذ : see قَاشِرَةٌ. قُشَارٌ ذ : see قِشْرٌ, in two places. قَشُورٌ ذ A medicine with which the face is peeled, in order that it may become clear (M, K) in complexion. (M.) See قَاشِرَةٌ. قَشِيرٌ ذ : see قَشِرٌ. قُشَارَةٌ ذ Peel, rind, bark, or the like, (لِحَآء,) or skin, pared off, or removed, from a thing; (M, K;) [parings, or bits, or particles, of a thing, that fall off, or are pared off.] قَاشِرَةٌ ذ [A شَجَّة (or wound upon the head) which merely peels off the external skin; also termed حَارِصَةٌ; (see شَجَّةٌ;)] the first شَجَّة, (S, K,) because it peels off the skin, (S,) or which peels off the skin. (K.) ― -b2- A woman who peels her face, (K,) i. e., the external skin of her face, with medicine [called قَشُورٌ], in order that her complexion may become clear; (K, TA;) and who rubs her face, or the face of another, with [the kind of liniment called] غُمْرَة; (TA;) as also ↓ مَقْشُورَةٌ : (K:) which latter [also] signifies a woman to whom this is done. (TA.) The قَاشِرَة and the مَقْشُورَةٌ are cursed in a trad. (M, K.) ― -b3- مَطْرَةٌ قَاشِرَةٌ, (S,) and ↓ قُشْرَةٌ , and ↓ قُشَرَةٌ , (M, K, TA,) A rain that pares, or strips, the surface of the earth, (S, M, K, TA, [in the K, مَطَرٌ يَقْشِرُ is put in the place of مَطْرَةٌ تَقْشِرُ, in the M]) and removes the pebbles from the ground, being a rain that falls with vehemence. (TA.) ― -b4- سَنَةٌ قَاشِرَةٌ, (TA,) and ↓ قَاشُورَةٌ , (S, M, K,) and ↓ قَاشُورٌ , (M, K,) (tropical:) A year that strips, or strips off, everything: (M, K:) or that strips, or strips off, men; and camels or the like: (M:) a year of sterility, drought, or dearth. (S.) See also أَقْشَرُ. قَاشُورٌ ذ and قَاشُورَةٌ: see قَاشِرَةٌ. أَقْشَرُ ذ A thing having its peel, rind, bark, or the like, pared off. (M, K.) ― -b2- One whose nose is excoriated by intense heat: (M, K: *) or (so accord. to the M; but in the K, and) (tropical:) one intensely red, (S, M, K,) as though he were flayed, (M,) or as though his scarf-skin were peeled off. (TA.) ― -b3- Ground partly bare of herbage and partly producing herbage: and ground bare of herbage. (TA.) ― -b4- شَجَرَةٌ قَشْرَآءُ A tree peeled, or barked: (M:) or as though part of it were peeled, or barked, (M, K,) and part not. (M.) ― -b5- حَيَّةٌ قَشْرآءُ A serpent casting off its slough, or having its slough cast off; syn. سَالِخٌ: (M, K:) or as though having part of its slough cast off, and part not. (TA.) ― -b6- عَامٌ أَقْشَرُ A severe year. (TA.) See also قَاشِرَةٌ. مُقَشَّرٌ ذ A thing having its peel, rind, bark, or the like, pared off, or removed; peeled, rinded, barked, &c. (TA.) See 1. ― -b2- فُسْتُقٌ مُقَثَّرٌ Shelled pistachio-nuts; (S, TA;) and so مُقَسَّرٌ alone, by predominant usage. (Z, TA.) مَقْشُورَةٌ ذ : see قَاشِرَةٌ. مُقْتَشِرٌ ذ (tropical:) Naked. (K, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) An aged man: because he finds his garments heavy to him, and throws them from him. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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