Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

قَافِلَةٌ ذ A company, or an assemblage of persons, travelling together: (El-Fárábee, Msb:) or a company returning from a journey: (S, K:) and commencing a journey; as auguring their return: (El-Fárábee, Msb, K:) he who restricts it to those returning from a journey errs: (ElFárábee, Msb, in which see more:) a caravan.

1 قَفَا أَثَرَهُ ذ and اـِتْرَهُ He followed his track, or footsteps; tracked him. (S, Msb.) ― -b2- قَفَا فُلَانًا He followed the footsteps of such a one. (TA.) See قَصَّ أَثَرَهُ, which signifies the same, for a better explanation. See also قَفَوَتُ أَثَرَهُ.

قَفًا ذ The back of the neck. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- عَيْنَاهُ فِى قَفَاهُ is said of him who is put to flight. because he looks behind him, fearing pursuit. (TA in art. انف.) And جَعَلَ أَنْفَهُ فِى قَفَاهُ: see أَنْفٌ. ― -b3- [Also the back of the hand: and the flat back of a knife and the like.]

قَفِيَّةٌ ذ : see دَوَاآءُ.

قَافِيَةٌ ذ , by synecdoche, for ذُو قَافِيَةٍ, (IJ,) (tropical:) A verse; a single verse of a poem. (Akh, Az, TA.) ― -b2- Also, [by a further extension of the proper signification,] A قَصِيدَة [or an ode, or a poem ]. (Az, IJ, TA.)

قَاقَوزَةٌ ذ and قَافُزَّةٌ: see طَاسٌ.

1 قَلَّ ذ , It was, or became, few; small, or little, in number, quantity, or amount; scanty. ― -b2- هُوَ يَقِلُّ عَنْ كَذَا He, or it, is smaller than, or too small for, such a thing; syn. يَصْغُرُ. (TA.) ― -b3- قَلَّ لَبَنُهَا Her milk became little, or scanty; she became scant in her milk. ― -b4- قَلَّ خَيْرُهُ [ His good things, or wealth, and his beneficence, became few, or little; scanty, or wanting; he became poor; and he became niggardly: ] for قِلَّةُ خَيْرٍ signifies “ poverty ” and “ niggardliness. ” (A, TA, in art. حجد.) And It became scanty, or deficient, or wanting, in goodness. ― -b5- قَلَّ He had few aiders: sec an ex. voce فَلَّ.

2 قَلَّلَهُ ذ He made it, or held it, to be little. (Msb.) ― -b2- He showed it, or made it to appear, to be little, in quantity. (TA.) ― -b3- See 4.

4 أَقَلَّهُ ذ He lifted it, or raised it, from the ground; and carried it. (Msb.) ― -b2- أَقَلَّهُ الغَضَبُ (assumed tropical:) Anger disquieted, or flurried, him. (Mj, TA, in art. حمل.) And أُقِلَّ [alone] (assumed tropical:) He was disquieted, or flurried, by anger. (T, TA, in that art.) ― -b3- أَقَلَّ مِنْهُ i. q. ↓ قَلَّلَهُ. (M.) ― -b4- أَقَلَّ He became poor: (S, Msb:) or he had little property. (K.)

5 تَقَلَّلَ ذ (K, art. نزر) It became diminished, or rendered little or small in quantity. (TK, same art.) ― -b2- تَقَلَّلَهُ He saw it, or deemed it, to be little in quantity. (TA.)

10 اِسْنَفَلَّ ذ He was independent, or alone; with none to share, or participate, with him. (TA.) [And اِسْتَقَلَّ بِنَفْسِهِ, the same; or (as shown by an explanation of the act. part. n. in the TA) he managed his affairs, by himself alone, thoroughly, soundly, or vigorously. ] And هُوَ لاَ يَسْتَقِلُّ بِهٰذَا He is not able [ by himself ] to do this. (TA.) ― -b2- اِسْتَقَلَّ He was independent of all others; absolute. ― -b3- اِسْتَقلَّ He (a man) rose, or raised himself, with a burden: (JK:) and a bird in his flight. (JK, K.) ― -b4- اُسْتُقِلَّ غَضَبًا He (a man) became affected with a tremour, or trembling, by anger. (JK.) ― -b5- اِسْتَقَلَّ بِالشَّىْءِ i. q. اِسْتَبَدَّ بِهِ. (TA in art. حكر.)

قُلٌّ ذ Poverty: see an ex. in a verse cited voce طَلَّاع.

قُلُّ بْنُ قُلٍّ ذ : see ضُلُّ.

قُلَّةٌ ذ The top, or highest part, of a mountain, &c. (S, K.) ― -b2- The top of the head and hump. (K.) See a verse cited voce ظِلٌّ. ― -b3- قلتانِ [app. قُلَّتَانِ, or rather قَلْتَانِ, from قلت] The hollows of the two collar-bones (الترقوتان). (TA, art. ترب.)

قِلَّةٌ ذ [ Paucity; smallness; littleness; scantiness; want of due amount of anything: as in قِلَّةُ مُبَالَاةٍ want of due care: or this phrase signifies want of care: also fewness: for] قِلَّةٌ sometimes signifies i. q. عَدَمٌ. (Mgh in art. حفَظ.) ― -b2- قِلَّةٌ may often be well rendered Lack.

قَلِيلٌ ذ Few; small, or little, in number, quantity, or amount; scanty. ― -b2- A small quantity, or quantum, or number, مِن مَالٍ وَغَيْرِهِ of property, or cattle, &c. ― -b3- قَلِيلُ الخَيْرِ: [see art. خير, where an explanation is given equivalent to عَادمُ الخَيْرِ: and in like manner] قَلِيلُ الخَيْرِ is used to signify Not making use of oaths at all. (Mgh in art. حفظ.) It may be well rendered Lacking, or destitute of, good, or wealth; as well as having little thereof: it generally means having little, or no, wealth, or good; or lacking, or destitute of, goodness or good things. ― -b4- قَلِيلٌ: see مَطَّرِدٌ. ― -b5- Possessing little, or possessed in a small degree, of anything.

قَلِيلَةٌ ذ as a subst., Little: see كَثِيرَةٌ.

أَقَلُّ مَالًا وَوَلَدًا ذ Possessing, or possessor, of less than another in respect of wealth and children: see an ex. (from the Kur xviii. 37) in art. ف.

مُسْتَقِلٌّ ذ A writing on a particular, peculiar, or special, subject. ― -b2- رِسَالَةٌ مُسْتَقِلَّةٌ A monograph. See also a verse cited voce غَتْمٌ. ― -b3- مَعْنًى مُسْتَقِلٌّ بِهِ An independent meaning.

القِلاَصُ ذ , or القَلاَئِصُ, Some small stars before الدَّبَرَانُ; [i. e., towards التُّرَيَّا; being between the Hyades and thhe Pleiades; ] following الثريّا. (Mir-át ez-Zemán.) Or The Hyades.

1 قَلَعَ ذ and ↓ اِفْتَلَعَ He pulled, plucked, tore, wrenched, or rooted, out, or up, or off; detached; removed from his or its place; displaced; (Msb, K *;) eradicated; uprooted; unrooted. (K.) ― -b2- تَقْلَعُ (K in art. جذو) and تقلعُ السَّيْرَ (TA in that art.) [app. for تَقْلَعُ فِى السَّيْرِ], said of she-camels, (K ib.) [app. They raise their feet clear from the ground: see قَلِعٌ and قُلْعٌ: the pret. seems to be قَلِعَ: so if تَقْلَعُ be the right reading: but in a copy of the K it seems to be تُقْلِعُ: see جَاذٍ, art. جذو.

4 أَقْلَعَ ذ It (rain) left off. (The lexicons passim.) It cleared away; syn. اـِنْجَلَى. (TA.) ― -b2- أَقْلَعَ عَنْهُ He, or it, left him, or quitted him, or it. (Mgh, Msb, K.) He abstained, or desisted, from it. (S.) ― -b3- أَقْلَعَ It (hard fortune) departed: see an ex. voce اـِبِدٌ. ― -b4- أَقْلعَتِ الحُمَّى The fever passed away.

5 تَقَلَّعَ فِى مَشْيِهِ ذ He walked as though he were descending a declivity. (TA.)

7 اِنْقَلَعَ ذ It became pulled out, or up, or off; became removed from its place, displaced, eradicated, uprooted, or unrooted; it fell, or came, out. You say, اـِنْقَلَعَتْ أَسْنَانُهُ [ His teeth fell, or came, out. ] (TA, art. حس.)

8 اـِقْتَلَعَ see 1.

قَلَعَةٌ ذ as meaning Large stones: see مِرْدًى.

قَلْعِىٌّ ذ : see رَصاَصٌ and اآنُكٌ; in Turkish قَلَاىْ.

قُلُوعٌ ذ is a quasi-inf. n. of the verb in the phrase أَقْلَعَتِ الحُمَّى: see صَلَّ.

مَقْلَعٌ ذ : see an ex. voce صَمْغٌ.

مِقْلاَعٌ ذ A thing with which one throws a stone; (S;) a sling: (PS:) so in the present day. ― -b2- See also مِزْعَقٌ.

2 قَلَّفَ see 8.

8 اقْتَلَفَ الظُّفْرَ ذ He pulled out the finger-nail by the root: (Lth, TA:) and so ↓ قَلَّفَهُ, accord. to a usage of its pass. part. n. in the T, art. ظفر.

قُلْفَةٌ ذ [also The prepuce of the clitoris of a woman;] a piece of flesh between the شُفْرَانِ of a woman, which is cut off in circumcision. (Msb,) voce بَظْرٌ.)

أَقْلَفُ ذ has also for pl. قُلْفَانٌ: see أَعْرَمُ.

Q. 2 تَقَلْفَعَتْ عَنِ الكَمْءِ أَنْقَاضُهُ ذ [ The crusts of earth broke up from over the truffle ]. (M, art. نقض.)

1 قَلِقَ ذ , aor. قَلَقَ , (M, Msb, TA,) inf. n. قَلَقٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) It was, or became, unsettled, unsteady, unfixed, loose, mobile, unquiet, or restless; it did not settle, become fixed or motionless or quiet or at rest, or it did not rest or remain or continue, in its place. (TA.) He, or it, became disquieted, disturbed, agitated, flurried, or in a state of unrest or commotion; syn. اِنْزَعَجَ, (S, K, TA,) and اِضْطَرَبَ. (M, Msb.) ― -b2- قَلِقَ اـِلَيْهِ, or الى لِقَائِهِ, see جَنَبَ.

2 قَلَّقَ see 4.

4 أَقْلَقَهُ ذ He, or it, disquieted him; disturbed him; agitated him; flurried him. (S, Msb.) He moved it, a thing, from its place; as also ↓ قَلَّقَهُ. (M.)

قَلِقٌ ذ Unsteady; loose. ― -b2- عِبَارَةٌ قَلْقَةٌ A loose expression. (TA &c., passim.)

قَلَاقَةٌ ذ Looseness in an expression. (TA &c., passim.)

قَلَمٌ ذ and ↓ قَلَمَانِ and ↓ قَلَمَانٌ: see جَلَمٌ. ― -b2- A writing-reed prepared for writing; a reed-pen.

قَلَمَانٌ ذ : see قَلمٌ.

مُقَلَّمُ الظُّفْرِ ذ and الأَظْفَارِ: see ظُفرٌ.

قَلَمَّسٌ ذ : see نَاسِئٌ.

1 قَلَا ذ and قلى He fried wheat; i. e. roasted it in a مَقْلَى [or frying-pan or roasting-pan ]. (Mgh.) ― -b2- قَلَى with يَقْلَى for its aor.: see أَبَى. ― -b3- هُوَ يَقْلُو البُرَّ: see بَرَى. ― -b4- قَلَى He roasted in a frying-pan (MA, KL) flesh-meat (MA) or anything: (KL:) and شَوَى signifies the same. (MA.) قَلَى البُرَّ بِالمِقْلَى and المِقْلاَةِ means شَوَاهُ [i. e. he parched, or roasted, the wheat with the مقلى]. (Mgh.) The aor. is يَقْلِى and يَقْلُو, and the inf. n. قَلْىٌ (MA, Mgh) and قَلْوٌ. (Mgh.)

قَلْىٌ ذ Potash; as is shown by the explanations in the S, K, and TA. Hence our term “ alkali. ” See حُرْضٌ.

مِقْلًى ذ A frying-pan; i. q. طاَجَِنٌ. (Msb in art. طجن.)

1 قَمَّهُ ذ : see 4; and ثَمَّهُ, in two places.

4 أَقَمَّ الفَحْلُ شَوْلَهُ ذ and الشَّوْلُ ↓ قَمَّتِ: see أَشْمَلَ.

R. Q. 2 تَقَمْقَمْتُهُ ذ I took it, or devoured it, altogether. (TA in art. عب.)