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اقبسهُ He gave him a قَبَس [a brand, or burning stick, or burning piece of fire-wood]: (S, K:) or he gave him fire: and ↓ قَبَسَهُ he brought him fire: (TA:) and اقبسهُ نَارًا (Ks, S, Msb) he gave him fire; (S, * Msb, TA;) as also نَارًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ . (Yz, Ks, IAar, S.) ― -b2- [Hence,] اقبسهُ (assumed tropical:) He taught him: (K:) and اقبسهُ عِلْمًا , (Yz, Ks, IAar, S, A, Msb,) and خَيْرًا , (A, TA,) (assumed tropical:) he taught him knowledge, (S, * Msb, TA,) and (assumed tropical:) good; (TA;) as also عِلْمًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ , (Ks, IAar, S, A, Msb, TA,) and خَيْرًا : (A:) the latter verb is sometimes thus used; (IAar, TA;) or is allowable: (Ks, TA:) or only the former: (A:) [but it seems to be indicated in the TA, that you say. خَيْرًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ as meaning (assumed tropical:) he brought him good:] and you say also مَالًا ↓ قَبَسَهُ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) he gave him property]. (IAar, TA.) -A2- اقبس فُلَانًا نَارًا He sought fire for such a one. (Yz, * S, * K.)

اـِقْتَبَسَ see 1, passim.

قَبَسٌ Fire: (TA:) or a live coal: (Bd, xx. 10:) or [more commonly, and more properly, like نَفَضٌ in the sense of مَنْفُوضٌ ;] a firebrand ( شُعْلَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ , T, S, A, Msb, K, * and Bd ubi supra,) taken from the main mass of fire; (T, A, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ مُقْتَبَسٌ and ↓ مِقْبَسٌ (A) and ↓ مِقْبَاسٌ : (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 قَبَسٌ is also explained as signifying a live coal, or piece of fire, ( جِذْوَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ ,) which one takes upon the end of a stick: (TA:) [and ↓ قَبْسَةٌ also signifies the same; as appears from an application thereof in the K, art. جذو , where الجِذْوَةُ is explained by القَبْسَةُ مِنَ النَّارِ ; and from the saying,] مَا أَنَا اـِلَّا قَبْسَةٌ مِنْ نَارِكَ [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, حَتَّى أَوْرَى قَبَسَ القَابِسِ (assumed tropical:) So that he manifested a light of truth to the seeker thereof. (TA.)

قَبْسَةٌ [inf. n. of un. of 1; A single act of taking fire; &c. Hence the saying,] مَا زُرْتُكَ اـِلَّا كَقَبْسَةِ العَجْلَانِ [I did not visit thee save like the hasty person's single act of taking fire]. (TA.) -A2- See also قَبَسٌ .

قَابِسٌ [act. part. n. of 1; Taking fire; a taker of fire; &c. Hence the saying,] مَا أَنْتَ اـِلَّا كالقَابِسِ العَجْلَانِ [Thou art none other than like the hasty taker of fire]. (A.) ― -b2- [(assumed tropical:) Acquiring, or learning, knowledge; an acquirer, or a learner, of knowledge.] -A2- Seeking, or a seeker of, fire: pl. أَقْبَاسٌ ; its only broken pl. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Seeking, or a seeker of, knowledge; as also ↓ مُقْتَبِسٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- القَوَابِسُ [pl. of القَابِسُ , like as الفَوَارِسُ is pl. of الفَارِسُ ,] (assumed tropical:) Those who teach men what is good. (TA.)

مَقْبِسٌ The place of the fire-brand: i. e., firewood that has been lighted: or charcoal that has become hard; opposed to حُمَمَةٌ , which is [a piece of] charcoal that does not hold together: pl. مَقَابِسُ . (Msb.)

مِقْبَسٌ : see قَبَسٌ .

مِقْبَاسٌ : see قَبَسٌ .

مُقْتَبَسٌ : see قَبَسٌ .

مُقْتَبِسٌ : see قَابِسٌ .