قتد
1 قَتِدَتِ الإِبِلُ, (
L,
K,
TA,)
aor. ـَ (
K,
TA,)
inf. n. قَتَدٌ, (
TA,) The camels had a complaint (
L,
K,
TA) of their bellies (
L,
TA) in consequence of eating of the trees called قَتَاد [
q. v.]. (
L,
K,
TA.) 2 التَّقْتِيدُ [or تَقْتِيدُ القَتَادِ] signifies The cutting of the trees called قَتَاد [
q. v.], and burning them, (
L,
K,) i. e. burning [off] their thorns, (
L,) and then giving them as fodder to the camels, (
L,
K,) which fatten upon them on the occasion of drought: (
L:) one says, قتّد القَتَادَ,
inf. n. as above, He (a man) scorched, or slightly burned, the extremities of the قتاد with fire: (
O:) the man comes, in the year of drought, and kindles fire among them, so that he burns their thorns, then he feeds his camels therewith: (
T,
O,
TA:) one says of him who does this, قتّد إِبِلَهُ [i. e. He fed his camels with قتاد thus prepared]: so says Ibn-'Abbád: (
O:) and the act [of burning &c.] is called التَّقْتِيدُ. (
T,
TA.) قَتَدٌ (
S,
O,
L) and ↓ قَتِدٌ (
Kr,
L) The wood of a [camel's saddle that is called] رَحْل: (
S,
O,
L:) or one of the things that compose the apparatus of a رَحْل: or the whole apparatus thereof: (
L:)
pl. [of mult.] قُتُودٌ and [of pauc.] أَقْتَادٌ (
S,
O,
L) and أَقْتُدٌ: (
L:) but
accord. to the Basrees, قُتُودٌ, signifying the pieces of wood of a رَحْل, has no singular. (
Ham p. 662.) قَتِدٌ [part.
n. of قَتِدَ said of a camel: see 1]. One says إِبِلٌ قَتِدَةٌ, and قَتَادَى, [the latter being
pl. of the former,) Camels having a complaint (
Ks,
S,
O,
K) of their bellies (
Ks,
S, O) in consequence of eating of the trees called قَتَاد: (
Ks,
S,
O,
K:) like as one says رَمِثَةٌ and رَمَاثَى. (
Ks,
S, O.)
A2: See also قَتَدٌ.
قَتَادٌ [a
coll. gen. n., The tragacanth-tree;] a species of thorny tree; this is the larger sort; (
S;) a species of thorny and hard tree, which bears a pod, and of which the fruit is like that of the سَمُر [or gum-acacia-tree], growing in Nejd and Tihámeh;
n. un. with ة; (
L;) it is a species of hard tree having thorns like needles; (
K;) a species of tree having thorns like needles, and a small dust-coloured leaf, and a fruit growing therewith of the same colour, resembling the date-stone; (
AHn,
O, *
L;) the large قتاد [thus described] produces large wood, and its thorns are curved and short, and it is of the [class termed]
عِضَاه; (Aboo-Ziyád,
L;) or it is not reckoned among the عِضَاه: (
AHn,
L: [but this assertion may perhaps be meant to apply to the smaller sort: respecting the larger, see also 1 and 2:]) the smaller sort is a species of tree of which the fruit is a bladder (نُفَّاخَة) like that of the عُشَر [
q. v.]; (
S,
O,
L;)
accord. to the ancient Arabs of the desert, it is not tall, being of the size of a man sitting; (
L;) and this sort grows upwards, no part of it spreading, consisting of twigs, or shoots, in a collected state, every one of which is full of thorns from its top to its bottom. (Aboo-Ziyád,
L.) It is said in a
prov., مِنْ دُونِهِ خَرْطُ القَتَادِ [
expl. in art. خرط, first paragraph]. (
S,
L.) إِبِل قَتَادِيَّةٌ Camels that eat the trees called قَتَاد. (
AHn,
K.) قُتَائِدَةٌ, (
S,
O,
K,) occurring in a verse of 'AbdMenáf Ibn-Riba [cited in art. اذا, p. 40, col. iii.], (
S,
O,) is the name of a certain عَقَبَة [or mountain-road], (
S,
O,
K,) or a ثَنِيَّة [which is said by some to be
syn. with عَقَبَة]; (
K;) [and if so, it is properly imperfectly
decl.;] or any ثَنِيَّة is called قُتَائِدَةٌ. (
K.)
