عُلَالَةٌ

Root: عل

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عُلَالَةٌ and تَعِلَّةٌ and عَلَّةٌ , with fet-h, (TA, [in the CK العِلَّةُ is put for العَلَّةُ,]) A thing with which a person, or a child, is diverted, or occupied so as to be diverted, and contented, or satisfied, such as talk, and singing, and food, &c., [or such as a small quantity of food by which the craving of his stomach is allayed,] in order that he may be quiet. It is said in a trad., accord. to different relations thereof, that dates are the of the child or of the guest.
2 Also, the first, accord. to the copies of the K, What is drawn from the udder after the first فِيقَة: but accord. to IAar, what is drawn from the udder before the first فِيقَة [or milk that collects in the udder between two milkings], and before the second فيقة collects: also termed عُرَاكَةٌ and دُلَاكَةٌ: [or] the milking that is between two milkings: [or] it signifies also the middle milking of the camel that is milked in the first part and the middle and the last part of the day: or, as some say, the milk that she excerns [into her udder] after the milking of the copious flow thereof.
3 And A remaining portion of milk in the udder: and of other things: [for instance,] of the course [of a beast]: of the running of a horse; the former portion whereof is termed بُدَاهَةٌ: and of anything: as of the flesh of a sheep or goat: and of the strength of an old man.

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