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خَالِدٌ خالد [Remaining, staying, &c.]. ― -b2- [Hence,] الخَوَالِدُ [as though pl. of الخَالِدَةُ] (assumed tropical:) The three pieces, or portions, of stone, or rock, called الأَثَافِى, upon which the cooking-pot is placed, (S, A, L, K,) remaining in their places: (L:) so called because of their remaining (S, L) a long time (L) after the standing relies of a house have become effaced. (S, L.) [See an ex., from a poem of ElMukhabbal Es-Saadee, voce إِِلَّا, p. 78; where خوالد is with tenween for the sake of the metre.] ― -b3- Also (tropical:) The mountains: and the stones: (L. K:) and the rocks: so called for the same reason. (L.) -A2- [As a proper name, خَالِدٌ is often written خٰلِدٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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