قحد

قَحَدَةٌ ذ The base of the hump of a camel; (S, A, O, L, K;) [as also ↓ قَحَدٌ, mentioned by Freytag as occurring in the Deewán of the Hudhalees, and I find قحد (thus without any syll. sign) expl. as having this meaning (as well as قحدة) in a copy of the A;] and so ↓ مَقْحَدَةٌ: (O, K:) [respecting which last, SM, having overlooked it in the O, observes, in the TA, “ so in all the copies ” (meaning of the K) “ in our hands; but I have not found it in the books of strange words, nor in the L; and it appears to be مَحْقِد; for it is said in the L that IAar mentions مَحْفِد [with ف] as having this meaning, that the like of this is mentioned on the authority of Aboo-Nasr, and that IAar says that مَحْتِد and مَحْفِد and مَحْقِد and مَحْكِد are all syn. with أَصْلٌ; but Az says that محقد is not mentioned with محتد in the book of Aboo-Turáb: ”] or the portion of the hump, (K, TA,) i. e. (TA) the portion of the fat of the hump, (Lth, O, L, TA,) that is between the مَأْنَتَانِ [app. here meaning the two anterior upper portions of the lumbar region, next the back-bone ]: (Lth, O, L, K, TA:) or the hump (A 'Obeyd, O, L, K, TA) itself: (TA:) or a hump like a cupola: (ISd, TA:) or the قُبَّة [or round, protuberant, upper portion ] of the hump: (A:) pl. [of mult.] قِحَادٌ (S, O, K) and [of pauc.] أَقْحُدٌ. (K.)