Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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كلح كلحب كلد


Q. 1. ⇒ كلحب

كَلْحَبَهُ He struck him with a sword. (Ḳ.)


كَلْحَبَةٌ

كَلْحَبَةٌ: of this word, Az says, It is not known what it is: but it is related, on the authority of IAạr, that it signifies The sound, and flame, of fire; or its sounding, and flaming: (as explained in the Ḳ:) or, accord. to the RA, it signifies its sound, or sounding, in what is slender, or small, as a lamp and the like. (TA.) [See also حَدْمٌ.]


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