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قِلَادَةٌ

Root: قلد

Full Definition

قِلَادَةٌ [A necklace; a collar; and the like;] that which is upon the neck; what is put upon the neck of a human being, and a horse, and a dog, and a camel or cow or bull that is brought as an offering to Mekkeh for sacrifice, [see 2,] and the like: Esh-Shiháb observes, in the 'Ináyeh, that the measure فِعَالَةٌ, in the case of a word not an Verbal.Noun, denotes a thing that envelops, or that surrounds, another thing; as in the instances of لِفَافَةٌ and عِمَامَةٌ and قِلَادَةٌ: pl. قَلَائِدُ: قِلَادٌ also occurs, either as a pl. of قِلَادَةٌ, in which case the kesreh and ا in the pl. are different from the kesreh and ا in the sing., [being the proper characteristics of the pl.,] or as a coll. gen. n., of which قِلَادَةٌ is the n. un.
2 حَسْبُكَ مِنَ القِلَادَةِ مَا أَحَاطَ بِالعُنُقِ [Sufficient for thee is the necklace that surrounds the neck]. A proverb. Said by 'Okeyl Ibn-'Ullufeh, on his being asked why he did not censure his enemies in a longer satire.
3 نِعْمَتُكَ قِلَادَةٌ فِى عُنُقِى لَا يَفُكُّهَا المَلَوَانِ [Thy beneficence is a permanent badge upon my neck which day and night will not loose].
4 لِى فِى أَعْنَاقِهِمْ قَلَائِدُ نِعَمٍ رَاهِنَةٌ [To me are owing acknowledgments required by permanent badges of favours firmly fastened upon their necks: see 2]. [This use of قلادة in a good sense is more common than the meaning A disgrace attaching constantly or a permanent badge of infamy: see Ham. p. 127.]

def.2 قَلَائِدُ الشِّعْرِ, and , Verses, or poems, that last throughout time. See 2.

def.3 القِلَادَةُ A certain asterism. (See البَلْدَةُ.)
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