التَّقْتِيدُ
Root: قتد
Form: 2
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التَّقْتِيدُII
[or تَقْتِيدُ القَتَادِ] signifies The cutting of the trees called
قَتَاد [q. v.], and burning them, i. e. burning [off] their thorns, and then giving them as fodder to the camels, which fatten upon them on the occasion of drought: one says, قتّد القَتَادَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He scorched, or slightly burned, the extremities of the
قتاد
with fire: the man comes, in the year of drought, and kindles fire among them, so that he burns their thorns, then he feeds his camels therewith: one says of him who does this, قتّد إِبِلَهُ [i. e. He fed his camels with
قتاد
thus prepared]: so says Ibn-'Abbád: and the act [of burning &c.] is called التَّقْتِيدُ.
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