مَخَاضٌ

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مَخَاضٌ The pains of parturition; as also مِخَاضٌ .

def.2 Applied to she-camels, Pregnant: used in this sense as an epithet of good omen, whence they augur that their young ones will become agitated in their bellies at the time of parturition: having their young in their bellies: or such as are called عِشَار, that have been ten months pregnant: but ISd says, I have not found this explanation of مخاض on any authority beside that of Th: [see also عُشَرَآءُ:] it has no proper sing: a single one is termed خَلِفَةٌ, which is extr. with respect to rule: or مَخَاضٌ signifies, or it signifies also, she-camels in the state in which they are from the time when the stallion is sent among them until he brays (حَتَّى يَهْدِرَ), or, accord. to another relation, until they are left (حتّى تُغْدَرَ), i.e., until he ceases (حتّى يَنْقَطِعَ, in the copies of the K, erroneously, حتى تنقطع, TA) from covering: a pl. having no sing.
2 Hence, اِبْنُ مَخَاضٍ A young male camel, which, having completed a year from the day of its birth, has entered upon the second year: because his mother, from whom he has been separated, has become adjoined to the مَخَاض, or pregnant camels, whether she have conceived or not; for they used to make the stallion-camels to cover the females a year after these had brought forth, in order that their young ones might become strong, so that they conceived in the second year: or because its mother has been covered, and has conceived, and become adjoined to the مَخَاض, i.e., to the pregnant camels; and this appellation it bears until it has completed the second year; but when it has entered upon the third, it is called اِبْنُ لَبُونٍ: or a young male camel when his mother has conceived: or whose mother has become pregnant: or when the she-camels among whom is his mother have become pregnant, though she have not become so: the female is called بِنْتُ مَخَاضٍ; or اِبْنَةُ مَخَاضٍ: the pl., of both the male and female appellations, is بَنَاتُ مَخَاضٍ, only; like بَنَاتُ لَبُونٍ and بَنَاتُ آوَى. Sometimes one adds to it the article ال, saying, اِبْنُ المَخَاضِ: [for] ابن مخاض is indeterminate; and when you desire to make it determinate, you affix the article ال, as above; but this only makes it determinate as a generic appellation.

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