فِلْذَةٌ
Root: فلذ
Full Definition
فِلْذَةٌ
A piece, or portion, of liver, cut in an oblong from, and of flesh-meat, and of property, and of gold, and of silver, &c.: a piece of flesh-meat cut in an oblong form: pl. [of mult.] فِلَذٌ and [of pauc.] أَفْلَاذٌ, the latter irregular, as though the augmentative letter [in the sing.] were elided; or فِلْذٌ may be a dial. var. of فِلْذَةٌ, and so this pl. may be regular.
2 أَفْلَاذُ الأَرْضِ, or أَفْلَاذُ كَبِدِ الأَرْضِ, occurring in a trad., relating to the signs of the day of resurrection, accord. to different relations thereof, means The buried treasures of the earth, and its riches.
3 And أَفْلَاذُ كَبِدِ مَكَّةَ means The principal and choicest persons of the inhabitants of Mekkeh; of the tribe of Kureysh: so called because the liver is one of the noble parts of the body.
4 الفِلَذَاتُ [(not to be mistaken for الفِلِزَّاتُ) is a pl. of الفِلْذَةُ, and] signifies الأَجْسَامُ السَّبْعَةُ [i. e. The seven material substances; namely, the four elements, and the three products composed of these ]. (MF. [But in the copy of his work which I use, الاجساد is erroneously put for الجسام.])
2 أَفْلَاذُ الأَرْضِ, or أَفْلَاذُ كَبِدِ الأَرْضِ, occurring in a trad., relating to the signs of the day of resurrection, accord. to different relations thereof, means
3 And أَفْلَاذُ كَبِدِ مَكَّةَ means
4 الفِلَذَاتُ [(not to be mistaken for الفِلِزَّاتُ) is a pl. of الفِلْذَةُ, and] signifies الأَجْسَامُ السَّبْعَةُ [i. e.