إِحلَابَةٌ

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إِحلَابَةٌ Milk which a man draws for his family, while he is in the place of pasturing, and then sends to them: or milk that remains over and above what fills the skin: or what remains over and above the contents of the skin when the pastor brings the skin on the occasion of his conducting his camels to water and it contains milk; this being the احلابة of the tribe: or milk which people collect, to the quantity of a camel-load, while their camels are in the place of pasturing, and convey to the tribe; as also إِحْلَابٌ , pl. أَحَالِيبُ; whence the phrases, قَدْ جَآءَ بِإِحْلَابَيْنِ, and بِثَلَاثَةِ أَحَالِيبَ He has come with two camel-loads of milk collected while the camels were in the pasture, and with three such loads: when, in the case of milking ewes or goats or cows, people do thus, one says of them, جَاؤُوا بِإِمْخَاضَيْنِ, and أَمَا خِيضَ.

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