قَبَسٌ

Fire: (TA:) or a live coal: (Bd, xx. 10:) or [more commonly, and more properly, like نَفَضٌ in the sense of مَنْفُوضٌ;] a firebrand (شُعْلَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ, T, S, A, Msb, K, * and Bd ubi supra,) taken from the main mass of fire; (T, A, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ مُقْتَبَسٌ and ↓ مِقْبَسٌ (A) and ↓ مِقْبَاسٌ: (S, A, Msb, K:) the last two [properly] signify a thing [such as a stick, or piece of fire-wood,] with which one has taken fire: (TA:) and قَبَسٌ is also explained as signifying a live coal, or piece of fire, (جِذْوَةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ,) which one takes upon the end of a stick: (TA:) [and ↓ قَبْسَةٌ also signifies the same; as appears from an application thereof in the K, article جذو, where الجِذْوَةُ is explained by القَبْسَةُ مِنَ النَّارِ; and from the saying,] مَا أَنَا إِلَّا قَبْسَةٌ مِنْ نَارِكَ [lit., I am nought but a piece from thy fire; apparently meaning, my subsistence, or the like, is derived from thee]. (A, TA.) It is said in a tradition of 'Alee, حَتَّى أَوْرَى قَبَسَ القَابِسِ (assumed tropical:) So that he manifested a light of truth to the seeker thereof. (TA.)