قَبَسَ نَارًا

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, aorist قَبِسَ , (Msb, K,) verbal noun قَبْسٌ, (T, K,) He took fire, مِنْهُ [from him;] (K;) as also اقتبسها: (S, K:) or he took fire from the main mass thereof; (Msb;) as also اقتبس [alone]. (Msb, K.)
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[Hence,] قَبَسَ عِلْمًا, (and مِنَ العِلْمِ, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He acquired knowledge, مِنْهُ [from him;] (Ks, K, TA;) as also اقتبسهُ: (Ks, S, K, TA:) or he learned knowledge; as also اقتبس. (Msb.)
3.
[Hence also, قَبَسَ حُمَّى (assumed tropical:) He caught a fever from another; as also اقتبسها.] You say, هٰذِهِ حُمَّى قَبْسٍ (assumed tropical:) This is a fever caught from another; not accidentally inbred: (A, TA:) but Sgh explains it differently, as signifying an accidental fever. (TA.) And الحُمَّى مِنْ غَيْرِهِ وَلَمْ اقتبس تَعْرِضْ لَهُ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He caught the fever from another; and it did not accidentally come to him from himself]. (A, TA.)
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قَبَسَ مِنْهُ نَارًا, aorist قَبِسَ , verbal noun قَبْسٌ, [He sought from him fire; (see its particle n., below;)] (S;) [and so اقتبسه, for اقتبس مِنْهُ نَارًا; for you say,] اِقْتَبَسْنَا فُلَانًا فَأَبَى ان يُقْبِسَنَا, meaning, [We sought fire from such a one, and he refused] to give us fire. (TA.)
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[And hence, قَبَسَ عِلْمًا (assumed tropical:) He sought knowledge; (see, again, its particle n., below;) and so اقتبسهُ; as appears from an explanation of the particle n. of this latter also; and from the saying,] أَتَانَا فُلَانٌ يَقْتَبِسُ العِلْمَ فَأَقْبَسْنَاهُ, meaning, (assumed tropical:) [Such a one came to us seeking knowledge, and] we taught him. (TA.)
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Also, قَبَسَ النَّارَ He lighted, or kindled, the fire. (IKtt.)
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See also 4, passim.

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