قْصَر
ḳáṣarat
basic morphological information

v. (I)

it (sg. f.) was hard
быть трудным
قصر
LS 383; CSOL II 518
text examples

ḳáṣarat ḥe mes de di-ḥatóˀo mes megmέge tóˀo yemέgmeg ˁag men boḳ men ŝeríḥo di-ḥágeb ‘I lost its track, while the other man was still prying at the root.’ (CSOL II 23:20)

etymology

Borrowed from Arabic (Wehr 767, Qafisheh 522)

continental MSA
  • Mhr. ḳəṣawr to fall short (in a race), to give short measure
  • Jib. ḳɔ́ṣɔ́r to fall short, not to keep up; to give short measure