وَقَعَ الأَمْرُ

The thing, or affair, [fell, befell,] happened; took place; came to pass; became [executed, performed, or] realized; synonym حَصَلَ. (TA.)

وَقَعَ فِى He lighted, or came, upon a thing or place; and he became in a place.

وَقَعُوا فِى السُّنَيَّاتِ البِيضِ [They lapsed into the years of scantiness of herbage]. (K in article سنه, q. v.)

وَقَعَ إِلَيْهِ It chanced, or happened, to come to him, or it: and, said of a thing borne by water, it drifted to it, namely, a place.

وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ It fell, lay, or closed, upon it, or against it.

وَقَعَ بِالأَمْرِ He originated the thing, or event, and made it to befall. (TA.)

وَقَعَ He fell into a snare, or the like: he became insnared.

وَقَعَ فِى أَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ i. q. صَارَ فِيهَا [He was, or became, meaning he found himself, came to be, or chanced to be, in a desert, or waterless, land]; (Msb:) and فِى رَوْضَةٍ [in a meadow, or garden]: (T, S, in article انق:) [or he lighted upon, &c.; from the lighting of a bird].

يَقَعُ followed by عَلَى, often signifies It (a garment, &c., or a portion thereof,) lies against or upon a certain part of the body, &c.

وَقَعَ بِهِمْ and بِهِمْ ↓ أَوْقَعَ He made much slaughter among them: (Msb:) or he fought them vehemently: (K:) or he fell upon them in fight: (PS:) both mean the same: (S:) he made an onslaught upon them: اوقع بِالعَدُوِّ he made an assault, or a sudden assault, upon the enemy. (MA.)

وَقَعَ فِيهِ, verbal noun وَقِيعَةٌ, He spoke evil of him, behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise, saying of him what would grieve him if he heard it; (S;) slandered him.

He reviled, vilified, or vituperated, him; charged him with a vice, fault, or the like; defamed him; or detracted from his reputation. (Msb.)

وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا مِنْ كِفَايَتِهِ, [and مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ, (see K, article فقر,)] It supplied, or sufficed for, his need; synonym أَغْنَى غَنَاءً. (Msb.) وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا signifies It stood in stead, or in some stead: see فَقِيرٌ, in the K; and see Bd, and Jel, ix. 60: and مَوْقِعًا عَظِيمًا, in great stead.

لَمْ يَقَعْ مِنْهُ مَوْقِعًا [It did not stand with him in any stead]. (S, K, voce تَسَخَّطَ, end of article سخط.) [You say] وَقَعَ مِنْهُ الأَمْرُ مَوْقِعًا حَسَنًا أَوْسَيِّيءًا The thing stood with him [in good stead, or (if the expression be allowable) in evil stead]; synonym تَبَتَ لَدَيْهِ. (TA.)

وَقَعَ مَوْقِعًا مِنَ الحَاجَةِ [It supplied, or sufficed for, what was needed]. (Bd, ix. 60.)

وَقَعْتُ بِقُرِّكَ, and بِقُحَاحِ قُرِّكَ: see قُحَاحٌ.

يَقَعُ عَلَى كَذَا It (a word) applies to such a thing.