قَفَصٌ

A cage, coop, or place of confinement, (A, K,) or thing made of canes or reeds, or of wood, (M, TA,) [or of palm-sticks, &c.,] for a bird or birds: (S, M, A, K:) said by some to be an arabicized word [from the Persian قَفَسٌ]: by others, to be Arabic, from قَفَصَهُ in the first of the senses explained above: (Msb:) plural أَقْفَاصٌ. (S, A, Msb.)

[It is also applied to The cageformed structure of the bones of the thorax: (see ظَرِبَانٌ:) and is used in this sense in the present day.]

Also, A certain implement for seedproduce; (K;) or a thing composed of two curved pieces of wood between which is a net; (M, L;) upon which wheat is conveyed to the heap where it is trodden out. (M, L, K.)

فِى قَفَصٍ مِنَ المَلَايءِكَةِ, (M, Msb,) or قَفَضٍ مِنَ النُّورِ, (M,) or من الملايءكة ↓ فى قُفْصٍ, or قُفْصٍ من النور, [so in several copies of the K, but according to the TA, من النور ↓ قَفْصٍ, being there said to be in the former case with damm, and in the latter with fet-h,] and قَفَصٍ, (K,) occurring in a tradition, (M, Msb, K,) means, (assumed tropical:) In an assemblage of angels: (Msb:) or in a confused assemblage of angels: and in a confused mixture of light. (M, Sgh, K.)