Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شُكْدٌ

Root: شكد

Full Definition

شُكْدٌ A gift: or a free gift: pl. أَشْكَادٌ. A recompense. [See شُكْمٌ in two places.] What is given of dates when they are cut, and of wheat when it is reaped. What is given of a heap of reaped corn on the occasion of the measuring, and of the bundles (حُزَم) [of corn] on the occasion of the reaping: of the dial. of El-Yemen. Travelling-provisions with which one is furnished, consisting of milk, or [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, or clarified butter, or dates, and with which one goes forth from the abodes of a people. And Meat and drink deposited in a house or tent.


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