قَحْطٌ

Drought; dearth; scarcity: (S, TA:) and (assumed tropical:) paucity of good in anything. (ISd, TA.) You say also, لَهُ قُحْطًا, like سُحْقًا, and بُعْدًا, in the accusative case as [though it were] a verbal noun; meaning May drought, or dearth, or scarcity, betide him: and (tropical:) cessation of good, or welfare: and (tropical:) unfruitfulness in respect of good works. (TA.)