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قَلْصٌ ذ Abundance of water: and, contr., paucity thereof: (TA:) and ↓ قَلَصَةٌ and ↓ قَلْصَةٌ have the former of these significations: (M:) or ↓ قَلَصَةٌ signifies water of a well collecting therein and rising: (S, K:) and so ↓ قَلْصَةٌ , accord. to some lexicologists, as mentioned by Ibn-El-Ajdábee: (IB:) the pl. of قَلَصَةٌ is قَلَصَاتٌ: (S, K:) and the pl. [or rather quasi-pl. n.] of قَلْصَةٌ is ↓ قَلَصٌ . (IB.) An Arab of the desert is related to have said, مِنَ المَاءِ ↓ فَمَا وَجَدْتُ فِيهَا إِِلَّا قَلْصَةً , meaning, And I found not in it [i. e. the well] save a little quantity of water. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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