لِدَةٌ

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لِدَةٌ , in which the ة is a substitute for the و that is elided from the beginning, for it is from الوِلَادَةُ, or, accord. to some, it is from لَدى, q. v., applied to a male and to a female, (TA, voce تِرْبٌ,) i. q. تِرْبٌ; meaning One born at the same time with another; coëtanean, or a contemporary in birth of a man: dual لِدَانِ; [but لِدَةٌ occurs in a dual sense in the Jm and O and K, voce صَوْغٌ, q. v.;] pl. لِدَاتٌ and لِدُونَ: AHei and other expositors of the Tesheel say, that words like لدة have the latter form of pl. when they become proper names. The dim. [of the pl.] is وُلَيْدَاتٌ and وُلَيْدُونَ, because the formation of a dim. restores a word to its original form; not لُدَيَّاتٌ and لُدَيُّونَ, as some of the Arabs erroneously make it: but this which F pronounces an error is accordant to the authority of the leading writers on inflexion, who say that by regarding the original form, and restoring it thereto, the word is made to depart from the meaning intended by it; for if its dim. were made وُلَيْدٌ, there would be no difference between it and the dim. of وَلَدٌ. See also art. لدى.
2 See مِيلَادٌ.

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