Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قِدْحَةٌ

Root: قدح

Full Definition

قِدْحَةٌ The act of striking or producing, fire with the مِقْدَحَةٌ. Hence the saying, لَوْ شَآءَ ٱللّٰهُ لَجَعَلَ لِلنَّاسِ قِدْحَةَ ظُلْمَةٍ كَمَا جَعَلَ لَهُمْ قِدْحَةَ نُورٍ [If God had willed, He had assigned to men the faculty of producing darkness, like as He has assigned to them the faculty of producing light]: a trad.
2 And [hence] Consideration and examination of an affair, to elicit what may be its issue, or result.


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