قدح

قِدْحَةٌ ذ The act of striking or producing, fire (IAth, K, TA) with the مِقْدَحَةٌ. (IAth, TA.) Hence the saying, لَوْ شَاآءَ ا@للّٰهُ لَجَعَلَ لِلنَّاسِ قِدْحَةَ ظُلْمَةٍ كَمَا جَعَلَ لَهُمْ قِدْحَةَ نُورٍ [ If God had willed, He had assigned to men the faculty of producing darkness, like as He has assigned to them the faculty of producing light ]: (K, TA:) a trad. (TA.) ― -b2- And [hence] (assumed tropical:) Consideration and examination of an affair, to elicit what may be its issue, or result. (K, TA.)