عِلَاوَةٌ

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عِلَاوَةٌ Anything that one has raised and put, or a thing that one has hung, upon a camel, after the loading him completely, such as the water-skin and the سَفُّود [q. v.], or such as the [small leathern water-bag called] إِدَاوَة and the سُفْرَة [q. v.]: or a thing that is put between the two equiponderant burdens, after the binding of them upon the camel or other animal: pl. عَلَاوَى, or عِلَاوَاتٌ.
2 Also A superaddition of anything; as meaning something added. One says, أَعْطَاهُ أَلْفَ دِينَارٍ وَدِينَار عِلَاوَة [as though the phrase were, وَدِينَارَ عِلَاوَة, but the right reading is app. وَدِينَارًا عِلَاوَةً, i. e. He gave him a thousand deenárs, and a deenár as a superaddition, or over and above].
3 And The upper, or uppermost, part of the head, or of the neck: or the head of a human being as long as it remains upon the neck: one says, ضَرَبَ عِلَاوَتَهُ i. e. رَأْسَهُ [He smote his head, app. meaning he beheaded him]: or ضَرَبَ عِلَاوَةَ رَأْسِهِ, which is tropical: and سَبَتَ عِلَاوَتَهُ he smote his neck [so as to decapitate him]: (S and M in art. سبت:) and سُبِتَتْ عِلَاوَتُهُ His head was cut off; a tropical phrase.

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