قَصَّ

qaS~N * (M, K) and ↓ qaSaSN (M, TA) What is cut, or clipped, or shorn, of the wool of a sheep. (M, K, TA.) See also quSaASapN . -A2- Also, both words, (S, M, A, K,) and ↓ qaSoqaSN (M, TA) The breast (M, A, K) of anything: (M:) or the head thereof, (S, K,) called in Persian sr synh [i. e. sarosiynaho , applied to the pit at the head of the breast ]; and such is the qaSaS of the sheep or goat, &c.: (S:) or the middle thereof: (M, K:) or the bone thereof, (M, K,) of a man or other animal; (TA;) [i. e. the sternum; ] the soft bone into which are set the cartilaginous ends of the [ seven upper pairs of the ] ribs, in the middle of the breast: (Lth, TA:) pl. qiSaASN [a reg. pl. of the first]. (K.) Hence the saying, huwa A^alozamu laka mino $uEayoraAti qaS~ika , (S,) or huwa A^alozamu bika mino $aEaraAti qaS~ika , and ↓ qaSaSika , (M, TA,) [ He is more closely adherent to thee than the little hairs, or the hairs, of thy breast, &c.:] because as often as they are cut they grow [afresh]: (As, TA:) meaning, he will not separate himself from thee, nor canst thou cast him from thee: applied to him who denies his relation: and also to him who denies a due that is incumbent on him. (Sgh, TA.) ― -b2- Also, the same three words, (the first and ↓ second accord. to the TA, and the ↓ third accord. to the K) and ↓ qaSiySN , (K,) The place of growth of the hair of the breast. (K, TA.) -A3- qaS~N , (JK, and so in one place in a copy of the M, and in the TA,) or ↓ qiS~N , (so in one place in a copy of the M) and ↓ qaS~apN and ↓ qiS~apN , (M,) i. q. jaS~N , (JK,) or jiS~N , (M,) [i. e. Gypsum; ] qaS~apN is syn. with jS~ (S, Msb) in the dial. of El-Hijáz: (S:) or ↓ qaS~apN and ↓ qiS~apN , (K,) the latter on the authority of IDrd, (TA,) and said by Aboo-Bekr to be with kesr, but by others said to be with fet-h, (Seer, TA,) are syn. with jaS~apN [and jiS~apN , ns. un. of jaS~N and jiS~N ]: (K:) or signify stones of jS~ [or gypsum ]: (TA:) pl. qiSaASN [reg. as pl. of qaS~apN ]: (K:) and ↓ qaS~aASN is a dial. form of qaS~N [app. as syn. with jaS~N and jiS~N ], a subst., like jay~aArN [which is nearly, if not exactly, syn. with jiyrN and jiaS~N ]. (M, L.) In a trad. of Zeyneb, occurs this expression: EalaY maloHuwdapK ↓ yaAqaS~apF [ O gypsum upon buried corpses! ] by which she likens the bodies of the persons addressed to tombs made of jS~ , and their souls to the corpses contained in the tombs. (TA.)