قَتَادٌ
Root: قتد
Full Definition
قَتَادٌ
[a coll. gen. n., The tragacanth-tree;] a species of thorny tree; this is the larger sort; a species of thorny and hard tree, which bears a pod, and of which the fruit is like that of the
سَمُر [or gum-acacia-tree], growing in Nejd and Tihámeh; n. un. with ة; it is a species of hard tree having thorns like needles; a species of tree having thorns like needles, and a small dust-coloured leaf, and a fruit growing therewith of the same colour, resembling the date-stone; the large
قتاد [thus described] produces large wood, and its thorns are curved and short, and it is of the [class termed] عِضَاه; or it is not reckoned among the
عِضَاه: the smaller sort is a species of tree of which the fruit is a bladder (نُفَّاخَة) like that of the
عُشَر [q. v.]; accord. to the ancient Arabs of the desert, it is not tall, being of the size of a man sitting; and this sort grows upwards, no part of it spreading, consisting of twigs, or shoots, in a collected state, every one of which is full of thorns from its top to its bottom. It is said in a prov., مِنْ دُونِهِ خَرْطُ
القَتَادِ [expl. in art. خرط, first paragraph].
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more