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قَلُوصٌ ذ A young, or youthful, she-camel; (S, M, Msb, K;) i. e. among camels (Mgh, Msb) the like of a جَارِيَة among women: (S, Mgh, Msb:) or such as endures journeying; (Lth, K;) so called until her tush grows forth, [in her ninth year,] when she ceases to be so called: (Lth:) or a young, or youthful, Arabian camel: (TA:) or a she-camel from the time when first ridden, until she sheds the central incisor, [in her sixth year,] when she is called نَاقَةٌ; (El-'Adawee, S, Sgh, K;) the he-camel during that period being called قَعُودٌ, and then جَمَلٌ: (El-'Adawee, S, Sgh:) or any sh-camel from the time when she is ridden, whether she be a بِنْتُ لَبُونٍ or a حِقَّة, until she becomes a بَكْرَة, or until her tush grows forth: (M:) or a she-camel in her sixth year: or in her second year: (M:) and sometimes a she-camel just born is thus called: (M:) the قلوص is so called because of the length of her legs, and her not being yet bulky in the body: (T, TA:) and a long-legged she-camel is so called, (S, K,) sometimes: (S:) the term is only applied to a female: (IDrd, K:) [dim. قُلَيِّصَةٌ, of the pl. of which (قُلَيِّصَاتٌ) see an ex. in a verse cited in art. ده:] pl. قَلَائِصُ and قُلُصٌ (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and قُلْصَانٌ (M, L) and (pl. pl., K, i. e. pl. of قُلُصٌ, S) قِلَاصٌ. (S, M, Msb, K.) [Hence,] قِلَاصُ الثَّلْجِ (tropical:) The clouds that bring snow. (A, TA.) [Hence also,] قِلَاصُ النَّجْمِ [also called القِلَاصُ and القَلَائِصُ] (assumed tropical:) Twenty stars, which, as the Arabs assert, الدَّبَرَان drove before him in demanding in marriage الثُّرَيَّا; (TA;) some small stars before الدبران, following الثريّا: (Mir-át ez- Zemán:) [by some applied in the present day to the Hyades:] or the قِلَاص are the stars around الدَّبَرَان. (Kzw.) ― -b2- Also, (tropical:) A young, or youthful, female of the ostrich-kind; like the قلوص of the camel-kind; (M, TA;) the female of رِئَال [or young ostriches, or young ostriches a year old]; i. e. a رَأْلَة; (TA;) a female of the ostrich-kind, of such as are termed رئال: (S:) or a female of the ostrich-kind: (A, O, K:) and of such as are termed رئال: (K:) or قُلُصُ النَّعَامِ signifies the رئال of the ostrich: (IDrd, TA:) or قلوص [so in the TA, app. a mistake for قُلُص,] signifies the offspring of the ostrich; its حَفَّان and its رئال: so says IKh, on the authority of El-Azdee. (IB, TA.) ― -b3- Also, (assumed tropical:) The young of the [species of bustard called] حُبَارَى: (K:) or the female of the حبارى: or a little female حبارى. (M.) ― -b4- قُلُصٌ is also metonymically applied to signify (tropical:) Young women; (K;) as also قَلَائِصُ: (TA:) and the latter, to signify women [in a general sense]. (TA.) -A2- بِئْرٌ قَلُوصٌ A well having abundance of water: pl. قَلَائِصُ. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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