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قَصَّرَ

to shorten

VerbForm IIRoot ق-ص-ر

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Present tense
يُقَصِّرُ
Verbal noun
تَقْصِير
Active participle
مُقَصِّر
Passive participle
مُقَصَّر

Most common words from the same root

Adjective
قَصِير
short
Adjective
مَقْصُور
limited
Verb · Form VIII
اِقْتَصَرَ
be limited to
Adjective
قَيْصَرِيّ
Caesarean
Verb · Form I
قَصَرَ
to fall short of
Noun
قُصُور
shortcoming

قَصَّرَ in English

Verb · Form II

  1. to shorten; to abbreviate transitive
    1. to clip (hair) transitive
  2. to fall short, to shirk one's responsibilities, to not pull one's weight
  3. to lag behind, to be slothful
  4. to fail in strength
  5. to subside
  6. to come short

Words from the root ق-ص-ر

Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →

قَصَرَ · present يَقْصُرُ
Form I · The plain action

to fall short of, to miss; to unable, to be incapable of; to desist, to refrain, to abstain

قُصُور
Verbal noun
shortcoming
قَاصِر
Active participle
مَقْصُور
Passive participle · Adjective
limited
قَصُرَ · present يَقْصُرُ
Form I · The plain action

to be or become short, to shorten; to be inadequate

قَصْر
Verbal noun
قِصَر
Verbal noun
قَصَارَة
Verbal noun
قَصِير
Active participle · Adjective
short
قَصُرَمَا
Derived noun · Adverb
seldomly
قَصَرَ · present يَقْصُرُ
Form I · The plain action

to shorten, to curtail, to pare

قَصْر
Verbal noun
قَاصِر
Active participle
مَقْصُور
Passive participle
قَصَرَ · present يَقْصُرُ
Form I · The plain action

to detain, to lock up, to pen up, to put in jail; to hold back, to keep or restrict (within certain limits), to restrain; to confine to, to limit to, to restrict to

قَصْر
Verbal noun
قَاصِر
Active participle
مَقْصُور
Passive participle
قَصَّرَ · present يُقَصِّرُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to shorten; to abbreviate; to fall short, to shirk one's responsibilities, to not pull one's weight; to lag behind, to be slothful

تَقْصِير
Verbal noun
abbreviation
مُقَصِّر
Active participle
مُقَصَّر
Passive participle
اِقْتَصَرَ · present يَقْتَصِرُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

be limited to (with على)

اِقْتِصَار
Verbal noun
restriction
مُقْتَصِر
Active participle
مُقْتَصَر
Passive participle
قَيْصَرِيّ
Adjective
Caesarean
أَقْصَر
Adjective
elative degree of قَصِير

قَصَّرَ conjugation

Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.

PronounPastPresentSubjunctiveJussiveImperative
أَنَا Iقَصَّرْتُأُقَصِّرُأُقَصِّرَأُقَصِّرْ—
أَنْتَ you (m.)قَصَّرْتَتُقَصِّرُتُقَصِّرَتُقَصِّرْقَصِّرْ
أَنْتِ you (f.)قَصَّرْتِتُقَصِّرِينَتُقَصِّرِيتُقَصِّرِيقَصِّرِي
هُوَ heقَصَّرَيُقَصِّرُيُقَصِّرَيُقَصِّرْ—
هِيَ sheقَصَّرَتْتُقَصِّرُتُقَصِّرَتُقَصِّرْ—
أَنْتُمَا you twoقَصَّرْتُمَاتُقَصِّرَانِتُقَصِّرَاتُقَصِّرَاقَصِّرَا
هُمَا they two (m.)قَصَّرَايُقَصِّرَانِيُقَصِّرَايُقَصِّرَا—
هُمَا they two (f.)قَصَّرَتَاتُقَصِّرَانِتُقَصِّرَاتُقَصِّرَا—
نَحْنُ weقَصَّرْنَانُقَصِّرُنُقَصِّرَنُقَصِّرْ—
أَنْتُمْ you all (m.)قَصَّرْتُمْتُقَصِّرُونَتُقَصِّرُواتُقَصِّرُواقَصِّرُوا
أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.)قَصَّرْتُنَّتُقَصِّرْنَتُقَصِّرْنَتُقَصِّرْنَقَصِّرْنَ
هُمْ they (m.)قَصَّرُوايُقَصِّرُونَيُقَصِّرُوايُقَصِّرُوا—
هُنَّ they (f.)قَصَّرْنَيُقَصِّرْنَيُقَصِّرْنَيُقَصِّرْنَ—
Verbal nounتَقْصِير
Active participleمُقَصِّر
Passive participleمُقَصَّر

قَصَّرَ in a sentence

From a fully vowelled text

ضَعَّفَ فِي الطَّرِيقِ قُوَّتِي، قَصَّرَ أَيَّامِي.He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.Psalms 102:23, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
تَقْصُرُ خَطَوَاتُ قُوَّتِهِ، وَتَصْرَعُهُ مَشُورَتُهُ.The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.Job 18:7, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
يُحْضَرْنَ بِفَرَحٍ وَابْتِهَاجٍ. يَدْخُلْنَ إِلَى قَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ.With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.Psalms 45:15, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV

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