قيا1 قَآءَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. قَىْءٌ, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K, &c.,) He vomited (Mgh, TA) what he had eaten. (Mgh, Msb, TA.) b2:  [Hence one says,] قَآءَ نَفْسَهُ [lit. He vomited his soul], meaning (assumed tropical:)  he died: like لَفَظَ نَفْسَهُ. (A, TA.) And قَآءَتِ الطَّعْنَةُ الدَّمَ (assumed tropical:)  [The wound made with a spear or the like spouted forth the blood]. (A, TA.) And ثَوْبٌ يَقِىْءُ الصِبْغَ (assumed tropical:)  A garment that is saturated with the dye. (S, A, O, K.) And تَقِىْءُ الأَرْضُ أَفْلَاذَ كَبِدِهَا [lit. The earth will vomit the pieces of her liver], meaning (tropical:)  the earth will cast forth upon her surface her treasures. (TA, from a trad.) and قَآءَتِ الأَرْضُ أُكُلَهَا [lit. the earth vomited her food], meaning (tropical:)  the earth disclosed her herbage and her treasures. (TA, from a saying of 'Áïsheh.) and الأَرْضُ تَقِىْءُ النَّدَى (tropical:)  [The earth exudes the moisture]. (TA.) 2 قيّأهُ He, (a man, S, Mgh, O, Msb,) or it, (medicine, K,) caused him to vomit; (S, * Mgh, O, * Msb, K; *) and ↓ اقآءهُ signifies the same. (S, O, K.) 4 أَقْيَاَ see what immediately precedes.5 تقيّأ He constrained himself to vomit; (S, Mgh, O, Msb, TA;) and he vomited intentionally. (TA.) See also 10, in two places.A2:  and تَقَيَّأَتْ She addressed, or presented, herself to her husband, and threw herself upon him: (K:) or, accord. to Lth, she affected languor, or languidness, to her husband, and threw herself upon him: but in the opinion of Az, the verb with ق in this sense is a mistranscription, and is correctly تفيّأت, [q. v.,] with ف. (TA.) 10 استقآء, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA,) or استقيَأَ, (thus in the O, in which the former is not mentioned, [and it seems from an ex. in a verse there cited that this may be a dial. var.,]) and ↓ تقيّأ, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K, TA,) He constrained himself to vomit: (S, Mgh, O, Msb: [see the latter verb above: in the K neither is expl.:]) or the former is an instance of اِسْتَفْعَلَ from القَىْءُ [i. e. it signifies he desired to vomit]: and ↓ the latter signifies more than the former, i. e. he made what was in the جَوْف [here meaning stomach] to come forth, intentionally. (TA.) It is said in a trad., لَوْ يَعْلَمُ الشَّارِبُ قَائِمًا مَا ذَا عَلَيْهِ لَاسْتَقَآءَ مَا شَرِبَ [If the person drinking in a standing posture knew what would be the effect upon him, he would desire to vomit what he had drunk: for the drinking and the eating in that posture are forbidden in more than one trad.]. (TA.) قَىْءٌ originally an inf. n.: then applied to signify Vomit; i. e. vomited food. (Msb.) It is said in a trad., الرَّاجِعُ فِى هِبَتِهِ كَالرَّاجِعِ فِى قَيْئِهِ [He who takes back his gift is like him who swallows back his vomit]. (S.) قُيَآءٌ a subst. (K, TA) similar to عُطَاسٌ and دُوَارٌ [and many other words of the same form applied to maladies; indicating that it signifies A complaint that causes much, or frequent, vomiting]. (TA.) One says, بِهِ قُيَآءٌ, meaning [In him is a complaint in consequence of which] he is vomiting much, or frequently. (ISk, S, O.) قَيُوْءٌ One (a man, IAar) who vomits much, or frequently; as also قَيُوٌّ; (IAar, K, TA;) the latter formed from the former, like مَقْرُوٌّ from  مَقْرُوْءٌ. (L, TA.) b2:  Also, [دَوَآءٌ قَيُوْءٌ,] Medicine  that is taken to cause vomiting; (ISk, S, O;) and so ↓ دَوَآءٌ مُقَيِّئٌ (K, TA) and ↓ مُقِىْءٌ. (TA.) مُقِىْءٌ and مُقَيِّئٌ: see what immediately precedes.