غُصَّةٌ
1.
A thing lying across in the throat, or fauces, so as to cause a choking, or an obstruction, thereof; (IDrd, A, * K;) a thing by which one has his throat, or fauces, choked, or obstructed; (TA;) food by which one has his throat, or fauces, choked, or obstructed; (Msb;) i. q.
شَجًا; (S, K;) [which has another meaning that will be found below; and both these meanings may be intended by it in the S; but in the K, the latter only seems to be intended; for there, between it and the explanation which is here first given, we find intervening the plural, and also, in the CK, the words وَقَدْ اَغْصَصْتُهُ فاغْتَصَّ;] a thing by which one is choked (شَجًا يُغَصُّ بِهِ, Lth, JK, TA) in the
حَرْقَدَة [meaning the head of the windpipe], (Lth, TA,) or in the throat, or fauces: (JK:) plural غُصَصٌ. (S, Msb, K.) It is said in the Qur'an, 73:13, وَطَعَامًا ذَا غُصَّةٍ (TA) And food that sticks fast, (Bd,) or by which one is choked, (Jel,) in the throat, or fauces. (Bd, Jel.)
2.
And hence, (tropical:) Choking wrath or rage. (Msb.)
3.
[And (assumed tropical:) Grief, or disquietude of mind; a signification often occurring; and apparently intended by the explanation شَجًا in the K. See what is said on this point above.]
4.
Hence also, غُصَصُ المَوْتِ [The chokings, or strangulations, of death: the deathrattles: or (assumed tropical:) the agonies of death]. (TA.)