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قَدُوحٌ

Root: قدح

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قَدُوحٌ and أَقْدَحُ , or قَدُوحٌ أَقْدَحُ , The ذُبَاب [i. e. common fly, or flies]: which one never sees otherwise than as though producing fire with the two fore legs [by rubbing them together like as one rubs together the زَنْد and the زَنْدَة]. (TA. [But in a verse cited by Meyd in his Proverbs, instead of القدوح, we find القَدُوح الأَقْرَح; and he says that الأَقْرَحُ is from القُرْحَةُ, and that every ذُبَاب has upon its face a قُرْحَة : see that verse in Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 48: and see also EM, p. 228.])

def.2 قَدُوحٌ also signifies A well (رَكِىٌّ) of which the water is laded out with the hand: or a well (بِئْرٌ) of which the water is not taken otherwise than by successive ladings [with the hand].
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