Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ل

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لِقَاحٌ ذ The semen genitale (L, K) of a stallion camel, and horse, and (tropical:) of a man. (L.) I'Ab, being asked respecting a man who had two wives, one of whom suckled a boy, and the other a girl, [not his own children,] whether the boy might marry the girl, answered “ No; because the لقاح [i. e., لِقَاح or ↓ لَقَاح , as shown below,] is one: ” meaning, says Lth, that the semen genitale which impregnated them both, and which was the source of the milk of both, was one, and that the two sucklings had thus become as though they were the children of the two women's husband: but, says Az, لقاح may here be a quasi-inf. n., syn. with إِِلْقَاحٌ; like عَطَآءٌ and إِِعْطَآءٌ &c.: (L:) [and the like is said in the Msb.] ↓ لَقَاحٌ and لِقَاحٌ, with fet-h and kesr, are substs. from أَلْقَحَ, [q. v.] syn. with إِِلْقَاحٌ, signifying impregnation, or the getting with young; and so in the answer of I'Ab above mentioned. (Msb.)