قَمَسَ

, (S, K,) aorist قَمِسَ and قَمُسَ , (K,) verbal noun قَمْسٌ (S, A, K) and قُمُوسٌ, (TA,) He, or it, (i. e. anything, TA,) dived, or plunged, (S, A, K,) in water: (TA:) he, or it, dived, or plunged, or became immersed, therein, and then rose: (TA:) he (a man) disappeared in water: (Sh:) and انقمس [signifies the same as قَمَسَ: or] he, or it, became immersed, in water: (S:) and this latter, he leaped into a well. (Sh.)

[Hence,] It (a child, or fœtus,) was, or became, in a state of commotion in the belly (S, K) of its mother: (S:) or in the membrane which enclosed it in the belly. (TA.)

قَمَسَهُ, (S, A,) [aorist, apparently, as above,] verbal noun قَمْسٌ, (K,) He immersed, dipped, plunged, or sunk, him or it, (S, A, K, [in the CK القَمْسُ is put by mistake for الغَمْسُ,]) in water; (S, A;) as also أَقْمَسَهُ, (S,) verbal noun إِقْمَاسٌ. (K.) See also غَمَسَهُ. You say also, قَمَسْتُ بِهِ فِى البِيءْرِ I cast him into the well. (Sh.)

قَامَسْتُهُ فَقَمَسْتُهُ: see 3.