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لَقُوحٌ ذ A camel (S, K) itself: (S:) pl. لِقَاحٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- See لَاقِحٌ. ― -b3- لَقُوحٌ and ↓ لِقْحَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ لَقْحَةٌ , (Msb, K,) applied to a she-camel, i. q. حَلُوبٌ [meaning Milch, and a milch camel]: (S, Msb, K:) but Az says, that the former only is used as an epithet; you say ناقة لَقُوحٌ, and not ناقةٌ لِقْحَةٌ, but هٰذِهِ لِقْحَةٌ فُلَانٍ: (TA:) or لَقُوحٌ is [an epithet] applied to a she-camel during the first two or three months after her having brought forth; and after this she is termed لَبُونٌ: (AA, S, K:) and accord. to some, ↓ لِقْحَةٌ signifies a milch camel abounding with milk: or a she-camel from the time when the hump of her young one becomes fat, until the expiration of seven months, when she weans her young one, and this she does at the [auroral] rising of Canopus: (TA:) [which rising, in central Arabia, about the commencement of the era of the Flight was between the 30th of July and the 12th of August:] also ↓ لِقْحَةٌ and ↓ لَقْحَةٌ a she-camel that has lately brought forth: (L:) pl. of لَقُوحٌ, لِقَاحٌ (S, Msb, K) and لَقَائِحُ; (ISh;) and pl. of ↓ لِقْحَةٌ (and of ↓ لَقْحَةٌ , K, TA,) لِقَحٌ (S, Msb, K) and لِقَاحٌ. (ISh, Th, Msb.) ― -b4- The Arabs also said لِقَاحَانِ أَسْوَدَانِ [Two black herds of milch camels], like as they said قَطِيعَانِ; for they said لِقَاحٌ وَاحِدَةٌ in like manner as they said قَطِيعٌ وَاحِدٌ and إِِبِلٌ وَاحِدَةٌ. (S.) ― -b5- المُسْلِمِينَ ↓ أَدِرُّوا لِقْحَةَ (tropical:) Milk ye the milch camel of the Muslims: occurring in a trad., alluding to the tribute (فَىْء and خَرَاج) whence were derived the stipends and fixed appointments of the persons addressed, and to the collecting it with equity. (TA.)