Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ك

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كَالِئٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ كُلْأَةٌ (K) i. q. نَسِيْئَةٌ, [app. bearing both of the two significations immediately following, and clearly shown in the S &c. to bear the latter of them: A postponement, or delay, in the time of the payment of a debt, &c. See also نُسْأَةٌ, and كَلَأَ. ― -b2- Also, both words, like نَسِيْئَةٌ, A debt of which the payment is deferred by a creditor to a future period.] (S, K.) ― -b3- Ex., نَهَى عَنِ الكَالِئِ بِالكَالِئ, i. e., النَّسِيْئَة بالنَّسِيْئَة, He (Mohammad) forbade [exchanging] a debt to be paid at a future time for a similar debt. (S, TA.) [See the Jámi' es-Sagheer, and Mishkát el-Masábeeh, ii., 21.] What is forbidden by this is, a man's buying a thing on credit for a certain period, and, when the period of payment is come, and he finds not that wherewith to pay the debt, his saying, Sell it to me on credit for a further period, for something additional: whereupon he [thus] sells it to him: (TK:) or, a man's paying money for, wheat, or the like, to be given at a certain period, and, when the period comes, the debtor's saying, I have not wheat; etc.; but sell thou it to me on credit for a certain period. (AObeyd, Msb.) See أَجَلٌ.] كَالٍ is also used for كَالِئٌ. (S.) [See an ex. voce نَاجِزٌ.] The pl. of the latter is كوَالِئُ. (TA.) ― -b4- Also ↓ كُلُأَةٌ , Money paid at a period after the purchase, for food. (S.) ― -b5- Also كَالِئٌ and ↓ كُلْأَةٌ , An earnest, or money paid in advance. (K.)