Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَقِيذٌ

Root: وقذ

Full Definition

وَقِيذٌ Beaten [violently: or] until he has become relaxed, or languid, and at the point of death: [&c.: see 1:] as also مَوْقُوذٌ .
2 وَقِيذٌ and A ewe, or she-goat, beaten to death; after which it is eaten: killed with pieces of wood &c.; not legally slaughtered: beaten to death with a staff, or stick; or with blunt stones: the Arabs in the time of paganism killed beasts thus.
3 وَقِيذٌ Prostrated. [In the TA, السريع is erroneously put for الصَّرِيعُ.]
4 وَقِيذٌ A man in whom is no fat or strength; مَا بِهِ طِرْقٌ.
5 وَقِيذٌ A slow, heavy man: as though his heaviness and weakness overcame him, or prostrated him, وَقَذَهُ.
6 وَقِيذٌ Violently sick, and at the point of death; as also مَوْقُوذٌ : heavy, suffering from sickness that cleaves fast to him, and at the point of death: suffering from a swoon, and in such a state that it is not known whether he be dead or not.
7 وَقِيذٌ Ill, sick; as also .
8 وَقَائِذً Stones spread about: sing. وَقِيذَةٌ.
9 وَقِيذُ الجَواَنِحِ Grieved in the heart; as though it were broken and weakened by grief. The جوانح [are the ribs that] enclose the heart.


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