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قِلَادَةٌ ذ [A necklace; a collar; and the like;] that which is upon the neck; (S;) what is put upon the neck (L, K) of a human being, and a horse, and a dog, and a camel or cow or bull that is brought as an offering to Mekkeh for sacrifice, [see 2,] and the like: (L:) Esh-Shiháb observes, in the 'Ináyeh, that the measure فِعَالَةٌ, in the case of a word not an inf. n., denotes a thing that envelops, or that surrounds, another thing; as in the instances of لِفَافَةٌ and عِمَامَةٌ and قِلَادَةٌ: (TA:) pl. قَلَائِدُ: (Msb:) قِلَادٌ also occurs, either as a pl. of قِلَادَةٌ, in which case the kesreh and ا in the pl. are different from the kesreh and ا in the sing., [being the proper characteristics of the pl.,] or as a coll. gen. n., of which قِلَادَةٌ is the n. un. (ISd, L.) ― -b2- حَسْبُكَ مِنَ القِلَادَةِ مَا أَحَاطَ بِالعُنُقِ (assumed tropical:) [Sufficient for thee is the necklace that surrounds the neck]. A proverb. (TA.) Said by 'Okeyl Ibn-'Ullufeh, on his being asked why he did not censure his enemies in a longer satire. (Z.) ― -b3- نِعْمَتُكَ قِلَادَةٌ فِى عُنُقِى لَا يَفُكُّهَا المَلَوَانِ (tropical:) [Thy beneficence is a permanent badge upon my neck which day and night will not loose]. (A.) ― -b4- لِى فِى أَعْنَاقِهِمْ قَلَائِدُ نِعَمٍ رَاهِنَةٌ (tropical:) [To me are owing acknowledgments required by permanent badges of favours firmly fastened upon their necks: see 2]. (A.) [This use of قلادة in a good sense is more common than the meaning (tropical:) A disgrace attaching constantly or a permanent badge of infamy: see Ham. p. 127.] -A2- قَلَائِدُ الشِّعْرِ, (K,) and ↓ مُقَلَّدَاتُهُ , (L, K,) (assumed tropical:) Verses, or poems, that last throughout time. (L, K.) See 2. -A3- القِلَادَةُ A certain asterism. (See البَلْدَةُ.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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