قَبَس

qabasN * Fire: (TA:) or a live coal: (Bd, xx. 10:) or [more commonly, and more properly, like nafaDN in the sense of manofuwDN ;] a firebrand ( $uEolapN mino naArK , T, S, A, Msb, K, * and Bd ubi supra,) taken from the main mass of fire; (T, A, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ muqotabasN and ↓ miqobasN (A) and ↓ miqobaAsN : (S, A, Msb, K:) the last two [properly] signify a thing [ such as a stick, or piece of fire-wood, ] with which one has taken fire: (TA:) and qabasN is also explained as signifying a live coal, or piece of fire, ( ji*owapN mino naArK ,) which one takes upon the end of a stick: (TA:) [and ↓ qabosapN also signifies the same; as appears from an application thereof in the K, art. j*w , where Alji*owapu is explained by Alqabosapu mina Aln~aAri ; and from the saying,] maA A^anaA A_il~aA qabosapN mino naArika [lit., I am nought but a piece from thy fire; app. meaning, my subsistence, or the like, is derived from thee]. (A, TA.) It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, Hat~aY A^aworaY qabasa AlqaAbisi (assumed tropical:) So that he manifested a light of truth to the seeker thereof. (TA.)