قِدْرٌ
Root: قدر
Full Definition
قِدْرٌ
A cooking-pot; a vessel in which one cooks: [and it very often means the food contained therein; i. e. pottage of any kind: (see, for an ex., 3 in art. غلو:)] of the fem. gender without ة: or it is made fem. as well as masc., accord. to some: but he who asserts it to be made masc. is led into error by a saying of Th: AM observes, as to the saying of the Arabs, related by Th, مَا رَأَيْتُ قِدْرًا
غَلَى أَسْرَعَ مِنْهَا [I have not seen a cooking-pot that has boiled quicker than it], قدر is not here meant to be made masc. but the meaning is, ما رأيت شَيْئًا
غلى [I have not seen a thing that has boiled]; and similar to this is the saying in the Kur, [xxxiii. 52,] لَا يَحِلُّ لَكَ النِّسَآءُ, meaning, لا يحلّ
لك شَىْءٌ مِنَ النِّسَآءِ: the dim. is قُدَيْرٌ, without ة, contr. to analogy; or قُدَيْرَةٌ, with ة, because قِدْرٌ is fem.; or both: and the pl. is قُدُورٌ: it has no other pl. [See a tropical ex. voce حامٍ.]
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