Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قيّدهُ

Root: قيد

Form: 2

Full Definition

قيّدهُII , Verbal.Noun تَقْيِيدٌ, He put a قَيْد [or pair of shackles] upon his [fore-] legs; he shackled his [fore-] legs. قَيَّدْتُ الدَّابَّةَ [I shackled the fore-legs of the beast; hobbled him: and, in a general sense, bound him.] قِيدَ (Verbal.Noun قَيْدٌ, TA) and قُيِّدَ signify the same, [He had shackles put upon his fore-legs; he had his fore-legs shackled]. See also 5.
2 قَيِّدْهُ بِالْأَلْتِ [Bind thou him by oath]: said when one has not given thee thy right or due. (TA in art. الت.)
3 أُقَيِّدُ جَمَلِى, (Verbal.Noun تَقْيِيدٌ, K.) [lit., I shackle the fore-legs of my camel; meaning,] I fascinate my husband so as to prevent him from going to other women; as though I shackled his legs.
4 It kept a she-camel from action.
5 It shackled, or restrained, a person.
6 قيّد الإِيمَانُ الفَتْكَ [The giving assurance of safety] inhibits assassinating, or assaulting, the مُؤْمَن [i. e. the person to whom assurance of safety has been given (بالمُؤمِنِ in the CK is a mistranscription for بِالمُؤْمَنِ)]; like as shackles inhibit the mischievous animal from doing mischief. (L, K, * from a trad. [See also 1 in art. فتك; where this trad. is cited in full.])
7 قيّد, (Verbal.Noun تَقْيِيدٌ K,) He pointed a writing with the syllabical signs, or signs which point out the pronunciation and division of syllables: he pointed a letter: he restricted a word or phrase [in its signification or application] by that which prevented equivocation and removed ambiguity.

def.2 He registered, or recorded, a matter of science [&c.] in a book or the like; i. q. ضَبَطَ.


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