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قَوَامٌ ذ Stature, and goodly stature, or tallness, of a man: (S:) symmetry, or justness of proportion. (Msb.) ― -b2- قِوَامُ الأَمْرِ and قِيَامُهُ and قَوَامُهُ The stay, or support, of the thing, or affair, whereby it subsists, and is managed and ordered. (Msb.) And قِوَامٌ The food that is a man's support; (Msb;) [his subsistence.] ― -b3- قِوَامٌ [The main stay of a thing.] ― -b4- لَا قِوَامَ لَهُ بِهِ [He has not power to withstand him. (K, art. نجز.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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