مِقْلَاتٌ
Root: قلت
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مِقْلَاتٌ
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مُقْلِتٌ A she-camel that brings forth one only, and does not conceive after: or whose young one has died; as also نَكْدَآءُ:) (L in art. نكد:) and a woman of whom no child lives: or, accord. to Lth, a woman who has only one child; but Az disallowed this explanation: or a woman who brings forth one child, and does not bring forth any after that: or any female to which there has remained no offspring: pl. of the former مَقَالِيتُ. [See an ex. in a verse cited in the first paragraph or art. شخب.] Bishr Ibn-Abee-Kházim says, mentioning the slaughter of Makhzoom Ibn-Dabbà ElAsadee,
[The women of whom no offspring lived, &c., passing the day treading upon him, saying, Shall not a waist-wrapper be thrown upon the man? for it seems that his body was indecently exposed]: in explanation of which it is said, the Arabs used to assert that when the مقلات trod upon a noble, or generous, man, who had been slain perfidiously, her child lived.تَظَلُّ مَقَالِيتُ النِّسَآءِ يَطَأْنَهُ يَقُلْنَ أَلَا يُلْقَى عَلَى المَرْءِ مِئْزَرُ
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