قَدْحٌ
Root: قدح
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قَدْحٌ
and
قَادِحٌ , [the former, in the CK, in this case, erroneously, with fet-h to the د,] A canker, or corrosion, incident in trees and in teeth: [the former is originally an Verbal.Noun: and] each, in the sense here expl., an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: [they are therefore more properly to be expl. as meaning a thing that cankers, or corrodes: and ↓ the latter signifies also rottenness, decay, corruption, or unsoundness: and blackness that appears in the teeth: and a crack, or fissure, in wood, or in a stick, or rod; and so the former word.
2 إبْرَةُ القَدْحِ: see مِقْدَحٌ.
2 إبْرَةُ القَدْحِ: see مِقْدَحٌ.
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