قبض

Compare Hebrew קבץ (to collect, to gather).

• IPA^(key): /qa.ba.dˤa/

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قَبَضَ • (qabaḍa) I (non-past يَقْبِضُ (yaqbiḍu), verbal noun قَبْض (qabḍ))

1. to seize, to take, to grab
2. to take hold of, to take possession of
3. to hold
4. to arrest
5. to receive, to collect
6. to collect, to gather

   Synonym: جَمَعَ (jamaʕa)

7. to contract, to constrict
8. to constipate
9. to oppress, to deject, to dishearten

• بَسَطَ (basaṭa)

• IPA^(key): /qab.ba.dˤa/

قَبَّضَ • (qabbaḍa) II (non-past يُقَبِّضُ (yuqabbiḍu), verbal noun تَقْبِيض (taqbīḍ))

1. to contract, to constrict
2. to give into (someone's) possession
3. to pay (a price)

• IPA^(key): /qabdˤ/

قَبْض • (qabḍ) m

1. verbal noun of قَبَضَ (qabaḍa) (form I)
2. taking possession, possession
3. confiscation
4. constipation
5. receipt of a sum
6. (poetry) suppression of the fifth letter of a foot when it is quiescent

• → Amharic: ቀብድ (ḳäbd)
• → Azerbaijani: qəbz
• → Persian: قبض
  • → Bengali: কবজ (koboj)
  • → Hindi: क़ब्ज़ (qabz)
  • → Urdu: قبض
• → Ottoman Turkish: قبض (kabız)
  • → Turkish: kabız
• → Swahili: kabidhi
• → Uzbek: qabz

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قبض”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “قبض”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

From Arabic قَبَضَ (qabaḍa).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.badˤ/

قَبَض • (gabaḍ) I (non-past يِقْبُض (yigbuḍ))

1. to arrest

   Synonym: مِسِك (misik)

2. to seize, to take, to grab
3. to take hold of, to take possession of
4. to hold

From Arabic قَبَّضَ (qabbaḍa).

• IPA^(key): /ɡab.badˤ/

قبض • (gabbaḍ) II (non-past يِقَبِّض (yigabbiḍ))

1. (rare) to pay (a price)

From Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

• IPA^(key): /ɡabdˤ/

قبض • (gabḍ) m

1. taking possession, possession
2. confiscation

Borrowed from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

قبض • (qabz)

1. bill, receipt
2. (medicine) constipation
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 52—53:

     از قضا سرکنگبین صفرا فزود
     روغن بادام خشکی می‌‌نمود
     از هلیله قبض شد اطلاق رفت
     آب آتش را مدد شد همچو نفت

     az qazā sirkangabin safrā fuzūd
     rōğan-i bādām xuškī mē-nimūd
     az halīla qabz šud itlāq raft
     āb ātaš rā madad šud hamčō naft

     By Divine destiny, oxymel increased the bile,
     and oil of almonds was producing dryness.
     From myrobalan constipation resulted, relaxation ceased;
     And water fed the flames, like naphtha.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. (archaic) seizure, taking possession of

Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:

قبض

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Borrowed from Classical Persian قَبْض (qabz), from Arabic قَبْض (qabḍ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qəbz/
• Rhymes: -əbz

قَبْض • (qabz) m (Hindi spelling क़ब्ज़)

1. constipation
2. capture, seizure

• “قبض”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قبض”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.