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أَلْيَةٌ

Root: الى

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أَلْيَةٌ The buttock, or buttocks, rump, or posteriors, syn. عَجِيزَةٌ, or [more properly] عَجُزٌ, of a man &c., or of a sheep or goat, and of a man, or of a ewe: or the flesh and fat thereon: you should not say إِلْيَةٌ , a form mentioned by the expositors of the Fs, but said to be vulgar and low; nor لِيَّةٌ, with kesr to the ل, and with teshdeed to the ى, as in the S, [but in a copy of the S, and in one of the T, written without teshdeed,] a form asserted to be correct by some, but it is rarer and lower than إِلْيَةٌ, though it is the form commonly obtaining with the vulgar: the dual. is أَلْيَانِ , without ت; but أَلْيَتَانِ sometimes occurs: أَلَصُّ الأَلْيَتَيْنِ is an epithet applied to the Zenjee, (K in art. لص,) meaning having the buttocks cleaving together: the pl. is أَلْيَاتٌ and أَلَايَا; the latter anomalous. Lh mentions the phrase, إِنَّهُ لَذُو أَلْيَاتٍ [Verily he has large buttocks]; as though the term إَلْيَةٌ applied to every part of what is thus called.
2 Fat, as a subst.: and a piece of fat.
3 The tail, or fat of the tail, (Pers. دُنْبَهٌ,) of a sheep. [Both of these significations are now commonly given to لِيَّة, a corruption of أَلْيَةٌ mentioned above: and in the K, voce طُنْبُورٌ, it is said that the Pers. دُنْبَهْ بَرَّهْ signifies أَلْيَةُ الحَمَلِ.]
4 أَلْيَةُ السَّاقِ The muscle of the shank; syn. حَمَاةُ السَّاقِ [which see, in art. حمو].
5 أَلْيَةُ الإِبْهَامِ The portion of flesh that is at the root of the thumb; and which is also called its ضَرَّة; or the part to which corresponds the ضَرَّة; and which is also called أَلْيَةُ الكَفِّ; the ضَرَّة being the portion of flesh in فِى, [app. a mistranscription for مِنْ from]) the little finger to the prominent extremity of the ulna next that finger, at the wrist: or the portion of flesh in the ضَرَّة of the thumb.
6 أَلْيَةُ الخَنْصِرِ The portion of flesh that is beneath the little finger; [app. what is described above, as called the ضَرَّة, extending from that finger to the prominent extremity of the ulna, at the wrist;] also called أَلْيَةُ اليَدِ.
7 أَلْيَتَا الكَفِّ The أَلْيَة of the thumb [described above as also called by itself أَلْيَةُ الكَفِّ] and the ضَرَّة of the little finger [respecting which see the next preceding sentence].
8 القَدَمِ أَلْيَةُ The part of the human foot upon which one treads, which is the portion of flesh beneath [or next to] the little toe.
9 أَلْيَةُ الحَافِرِ The hinder part of the solid hoof.


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