مَكَسَ

, aorist مَكِسَ , (TK,) verbal noun مَكْسٌ, (Sh, A, K,) He diminished, or deducted from, a thing; (Sh, * A, * K, * TK;) synonym of the verbal noun تَقْصٌ. (Sh, A, K.) Thus Sh explains مَكْس in the saying of Jábir Ibn-Jinnee Et-Taghlibee:

أَفِى كُلِّ أَسْوَاقِ العِرَاقِ إِتَاوَةٌ

وَفِى كُلِّ مَا بَاعَ امْرُوءٌ مَكْسُ دِرْهَمِ

[Is there bribing in every one of the markets of El-'Irák, and in the case of everything that a man has sold the deducting of a dirhem?]. (TA.) [Hence,] you say, مَكَسَ فِى البَيْعِ, aorist and verbal noun as above; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and ↓ ماكس, verbal noun مُمَاكَسَةٌ and مِكَاسٌ: (S, Mgh, Msb:) both signify He diminished, or deducted from, the price in the selling, or buying: (Msb:) or both signify he desired, or demanded, a diminution of, or deduction from, the price in selling or buying: (Mgh, TA, *) or the former signifies he collected property in selling or buying: (K: [but from what I find in the other lexicons, I think it probable that an early copyist has perverted the text of the K here by making a transposition; writing مَكَسَ فِى البَيْعِ يَمْكِسُ مَكْسًا جَبَى مَالًا واَلمَكْسُ النَّقْصُ وَالظُّلْمُ for مَكَسَ يَمْكِسُ مَكْسًا جَبَى مَالًا وَالمَكْسُ فى البَيْعِ النَّقْصُ وَالظُّلْمُ: in the TK we find جنى مالا, which is certainly a mistake:]) or مَكْسٌ signifies the diminishing (إِنْتِقَاص) of the price of a commodity: (M, TA:) and ↓ مِكَاسٌ, the acting with mutual niggardliness in bargaining; or, according to EshShereeshee, the vying in acuteness between a seller and buyer, the former demanding a price and the latter offering less, time after time, until they agree to a reduced price. (Har, p. 586.) You say also, مُكِسَ, meaning, He (a man) suffered a diminution, or deduction, in selling or buying and the like. (TA.)

[Hence, perhaps, or the reverse may be the case,] He wronged a man; treated him, or used him, wrongfully, injuriously, or tyrannically. (A, * K, * TK. [In the first and second, only the verbal noun of the verb in this sense is mentioned.])

[Hence, also, apparently,] He (the مَكَّاس, Mgh, Msb) collected a tax; synonym جَبَى; [particularly, the tax termed مَكْس:] (S, * M, Mgh, * Msb [in the first and third of which, only the verbal noun of the verb in this sense is mentioned:]) or he collected property. (A.) Hence the saying, (Mgh,) in a tradition, (S,) لَا يَدْجُلُ صَاحِبُ مَكْسٍ الجَنَّةَ (S, Mgh) [The taker of the tax termed مكس will not enter paradise]; meaning, the عَشَّار. (TA.)