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خُلْدٌ خلد an inf. n. of خَلَدَ, (A, L,) [or a simple subst.] syn. with [the inf. n.] خُلُودٌ. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الخُلْدُ, (T, K,) or دَارُ الخُلْدِ, (L,) [the latter signifying The abode of the state of perpetual existence;] Paradise: (K:) or the Paradises: (T:) or the world to come. (L.) -A2- A bracelet: and an earring; as also ↓ خَلَدَةٌ : pl. خِلَدَةٌ: (K:) which last signifies [also] ornaments for the person, collectively; (TA;) and so ↓ خُلْدَةٌ [if this be not a mistranscription for خِلَدَةٌ]. (L.) -A3- [The mole;] the blind rat; (L, K;) as also ↓ خَلْدٌ , (K,) and جُلْذٌ [q. v.]: (K in art. جلذ:) or a species of rat; as also ↓ خِلْدٌ : (L:) or one of the names of the فَأْر [or rat]: (IAar:) or a species of the [kind of rats called] جِرْذَان, blind (Lth, S, L, Msb) by nature, (Lth, L, Msb,) having no eyes, (Lth, L,) inhabiting the deserts: (Msb:) Lth says that the sing. is ↓ خِلْدٌ , and the pl. خِلْدَانٌ: in the T it is said that the sing. is ↓ خِلْدَةٌ , and the pl. خِلْدَانٌ; which is very strange: (L:) or a blind beast [that lives] beneath the ground. (K,) having no eyes, (TA,) that likes the smell of onions and leeks; so that if either of these be put over its hole, it comes forth and is caught: if its upper lip be hung upon a person affected with a quartan fever, it cures him; and its brain, mixed, or moistened, with oil of roses, and used as an ointment, dispels the maladies termed البَرَص and البَهَق and القَوَابِى and الجَرَب and الكَلَف and الخَنَازِير, and every eruption upon the body: (K:) مَنَاجِذُ, (L, K,) or, as in some copies of the K, مَنَاجِدُ, with the unpointed د, (TA,) is used as its pl, like as مَخَاضٌ is used as pl. of خَلِفَةٌ. (L, K.) ― -b2- Also A species of the قُبَّرَة [or lark]. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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