القح

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القحIV , Verbal.Noun إِلْقَاحٌ; and لقّحها , [Verbal.Noun تَلْقِيحٌ;] The stallion-camel made the she-camel to conceive, or become pregnant; impregnated her; got her with young.
2 القح النَّخْلَةَ, Verbal.Noun إِلْقَاحٌ, [and quasi-Verbal.Noun لَقَاحٌ, q. v.; et vide infra;] and لقّحها , Verbal.Noun تَلْقِيحٌ; and , Verbal.Noun لَقْحٌ; He fecundated the palm-tree by means of the , or spadix of the male tree, which is bruised, or brayed, and sprinkled [upon the spadix of the female]: or, by inserting a stalk of a raceme of the male tree into the spathe [of the female, after shaking off the pollen of the former upon the spadix of the female; for such is the general practice]: this is done in the following manner: you leave the spathe of the [female] palm-tree two or three nights after its bursting open: then you take a stalk of a raceme of the male tree, which is best if old, of the preceding year, and insert it into the spadix [of the female, after shaking off the pollen, as above mentioned]; and this you do according to a certain measure: it should not be done but by a man acquainted with the manner of proceeding in this case; for if he be ignorant, and do too much, he turns the spathe, and mars it; and if he do too little, many of the dates produced will be without stones; and if he do it not at all to the palm-tree, he will derive no advantage from the spadix thereof that year: لَقَحٌ is the name of that which is taken from the male palm-tree (الفُحَّال: so in the L: in the K, الفَحْل:) to be inserted in the other, [namely the spathe of the female]. [See also لَقَاحٌ. In the CK, for إِسْمُ مَا أُخِذَ الخ, we find اسم ماءٍ اخذ الخ, giving a different and false meaning.] جَآءَنَا زَمَنُ اللَّقَاحِ, or , The time of the fecundating of the palm-trees has come to us.
3 أَلْقَحَتِ الرِّيحُ السَّحَابَ The wind impregnated, or fecundated, the cloud, or clouds; and in like manner, القحت الرِّيَاحُ الشَّجَرَ وَنَحْوَهُ [The winds fecundated the trees] [and the like].
4 القح بَيْنَهُمْ شَرًّا He engendered, or caused, evil, or mischief, between them.
5جَرَّبَ الأُمُورَ عَقْلَهُ [He became experienced in affairs, and they fecundated his intellect].
6 النَّظَرُ فِى عَوَاقِبِ ٱلْأُموُرِ ٱلْعُقُولِ [Consideration of the results, or issues, of things is fecundation of the intellects].
7 لَا تُلْقِحْ سِلْعَتَكَ بِالأَيْمَانِ [Make not thy merchandise productive of a high price by means of oaths].

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