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قِلْدٌ ذ A single strand, or twist, of a rope; (AHn, ISd;) and the like of a bracelet: (see قُلْبٌ:) pl. أَقْلَادٌ and قُلُودٌ. (AHn, ISd.) See مَقْلُودٌ. ― -b2- The day on which a fever comes: (L, K:) or, on which a regular intermittent fever returns, seldom failing to do so at a particular time: (L:) or, on which a quartan fever comes: (S, L, K: *) pl. أَقْلَادٌ. (L.) ― -b3- Hence, (S, L.) The caravans from Mekkeh to Juddeh. (S, L, K.) ― -b4- Accord. to As, A man attacked by a quartan fever on the day of its attack. (L.) -A2- Irrigation of growing corn: (Az, L:) as also ↓ قَلِيدٌ . (L.) ― -b2- [And] قِلْدٌ signifies The day of irrigation. (L.) أَقَامَ قِلْدَهُ مِنَ المَآءِ He performed the work of irrigating his land on the day appointed for his doing so. (L, from a trad.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Irrigation by rain every week. (K.) You say, سَقَتْنَا السَّمَآءُ قِلْدًا فِى كُلِّ أُسْبُوعٍ (assumed tropical:) The heaven rained upon us at a particular time every week: (S, L:) from the قِلْد of a fever. (L.) ― -b4- سَقَى إِِبِلَهُ قِلْدًا (assumed tropical:) He watered his camels every day at noon. (Fr, L.) ― -b5- كَيْفَ قِلْدُ نَخْلِ بَنِى فُلَانٍ [How is the watering of the palm-trees of the sons of such a one?] a question to which one may answer, They are watered (lit. they drink) once in every ten [nights]. (L.) ― -b6- A portion of water: (L, K:) [pl. أَقْلَادٌ, occurring in the A.]: and ↓ قِلْدَةٌ a draught of water. (A.) -A3- أَعْطَيْتُهُ قِلْدَ أَمْرِى (tropical:) I committed to him [the management of] my affair. (A, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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