قَصْرُshortening in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَقَصْرُ طُولِ النَّهَى، وَلَوْ فَكَّكَهَا بِالِانْتِقَالِ مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ لَتَنَفُّسٌ عَنْهَا ضِيقُ العُقْدَةِ،

  He shortened the duration of his restraint; had he loosened it by shifting from one state to another, relief from the tightness of the knot would have followed.

  وَقَصْرُ — and the shortening. Front wa- is the joiner 'and'; the core is a noun built from a verb (an action-as-noun, 'a shortening'). It heads an ownership pairing with the next word, opening 'the shortening of...' as one bonded unit linked by wa-.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →