عهد

عَهْدَةٌ ذ : see عَهْدٌ, former half, in two places: -A2- and again, in the last quarter, in two places. -A3- عهدة [thus written, without any syll. sign], in a verse cited by AHeyth, [the measure of which shows it to be عَهْدَةٌ or ↓ عُهْدَةٌ or ↓ عِهْدَةٌ, and in which it is applied to the depository of a secret,] is expl. as signifying [properly] A place on which the sun does not come. (TA.)