قرد
1 قَرِدَ,
aor. ـَ (
S,
L,
K,)
inf. n. قَرَدٌ, (
S,
L), It (wool) fell off by degrees from the sheep, and became compacted in lumps, or clotted: (
S:) or it (wool,
L, and hair,
L,
K) became contracted together, (
L,
K,) and knotted in its extremities; (
L;) as also ↓ تقرّد. (
L,
K.)
b2: It (a tanned skin) became worm-eaten. (
S,
K.)
A2: (
tropical:) He (a man) was, or became, silent by reason of impotence of speech; (
S,
K;) as also ↓ اقرد and ↓ قرّد: (
K:) or he was, or became, abject, and humble, or submissive: or, acc. to
IAar ↓ اقرد signifies he (a man) was, or became, silent by reason of abjectness: [see also خرِدَ:] or, acc. to another, he was, or became, still and abject. (
TA.) See اقرد below. The verbs are used in these senses because, when a raven or crow lights upon a camel and picks off the ticks (قرْدَان), the beast remains still on account of the ease which it occasions him. (
TA.)
A3: قَرَدَ, (
L,
K,)
aor. ـِ (
K,)
inf. n. قَرْدٌ, (
L,) He collected together, and gained, (
L,
K,) for his family. (
L.) [You say] قَرَدَ فِى
السِّقَآءِ He collected clarified butter in the skin; (
L,
K;) as also قَرَدَ سَمْنًا فى السِّقَآءِ: (
S,
L:) or he collected milk in the skin. (
L,
K.) See also قَلَدَ.
2 قرّدهُ,
inf. n. تَقْرِيدٌ, (
K,) He plucked off his (a camel's,
S, A) قِرْدَان [or ticks]: (
S,
A,
K:) it (a raven, or crow) lighted upon him (a camel), and picked off his قِرْدَان [or ticks]. (
A.)
b2: [Hence,] (
tropical:) He rendered him (a camel,
L,) submissive, or tractable: (
L,
K:) because a camel, when he is freed from his ticks (قِرْدَان), becomes quiet. (
L.) [And, of a camel (?) it is said,] قرّد, (
tropical:) he became submissive, and tractable. (
K.) [And] قرّدهُ, (
A,
L,
K,) and ↓ نَزَعَ قُرَادَهُ, (
A,) [signify] (
tropical:) He beguiled him (
S,
A,
L,
K) and wheedled, or cajoled, him; (
L;) because a man, when he desires to take a refractory camel, first plucks off his ticks (يُقَرِّدُهُ). (
S,
L.) See also قَرِدَ.
4 اقرد He (a camel) became still, quiet, or tranquil, in consequence of his having his ticks pulled off. (
A.) [And hence] (
tropical:) He (a camel) went at a gentle pace, not shaking, or jolting, his rider. (
A.)
b2: (
tropical:) He was, or became, silent, (
K,) still, or quiet, (
S,
K,) and submissive, (
K,) and feigned himself dead. (
S,
K. See قَرِدَ in two places.)
b3: (
tropical:) He (a man) clave to the ground by reason of abjectness, or submissiveness. (
A.) See art. خَرِدَ.
5 تقرّد, see قَرِدَ
b2: It (flour) became heaped up, one part upon another. (
L, from a
trad.) قِرْدٌ [The ape; the monkey; and the baboon;] a certain animal, (
TA,) well known: (
L,
K:)
fem. with ة: (
S,
L,
Msb:)
pl. [of pauc., of the
masc.,] أَقْرُدٌ, (
L,
Msb,) and أَقْرَادٌ, (
L,
K,) and [of mult., of the same,] قُرُودٌ and قِرَدَةٌ, (
S,
L,
Msb,
K,) and [
quasi-pl. n.] قَرِدَةٌ; (
K;) and
pl. of the
fem., (
S,
L,
Msb,) قِرَدٌ. (
S,
L,
Msb,
K.) Hence the proverb أَزْنَى مِنْ قِرْدٍ [More incontinent than an ape]; because the قِرْد is the most incontinent of animals: (
K:) such is generally said to be the meaning of this proverb: (
TA:) or (
accord. to
A'Obeyd,
S,
L) by قرد is here meant a man of the tribe of Hudheyl, named Kird, the son of Mo'áwiyeh. (
S,
L,
K.)
A2: اِبْنُ القِرْدِ The حَوْدَل. (
TA in art. بنى.) قَرَدٌ [a
coll. gen. n.] Refuse of wool; (
L,
K;) afterwards applied also to soft hair (وَبَر), and other hair, and flax: (
L:) or soft hair and wool that fall off by degrees from the animals, and become compacted in lumps, or clotted: (
L,
K:) or refuse of wool, and what falls off by degrees from the sheep, and becomes compacted in lumps, or clotted: (
S:) or bad wool: (
R:) or the worst of wool and soft hair, and what is picked up thereof from the ground: (
Nh:) a piece thereof is termed قَرَدَةٌ. (
S.) It is said in a proverb, عَكَرَتْ عَلَى الغَزْلِ بِأَخَرَةٍ فَلَمْ تَدَعْ بِنَجْدٍ قَرَدَةٌ, عَكَرَتْ meaning عَطَفَتْ, [She returned to spinning at last, and left not in Nejd a piece of refuse of wool]: (
S,
L:) in the
K, عَثَرَتْ is put for عَكَرَتْ; and both readings are mentioned by the relaters of proverbs: [عثرت على الغزل
app. signifies she applied herself by chance to spinning:] the proverb is applied to him who neglects a needful business when it is possible, and seeks to accomplish it when it is beyond his reach: (
K:) its origin is the fact, that a woman neglects spinning while she finds that which she may spin, (of cotton or flax &c.,
L,) until, when it is beyond her reach, she seeks for refuse of wool among sweepings and rubbish. (
L,
K.)
b2: Also, Palmbranches stripped of their leaves:
n. un. with ة. (
K.)
b3: Also, A thing like down, sticking to the [plant called] طُرْثُوث. (
K.)
b4: Also, Little things, [i. e., little flocks of clouds,] less than [what are termed] سَحَاب [or clouds in the common acceptation of the term] not conjoined; as also ↓ مُتَقَرِّدٌ; (
K;) in some copies of the
K ↓ مُتَقَرِّدَةٌ. (
TA.) See also قَرِدٌ.
A2: Also, A hesitation in speech; (El-Hejeree,
L,
K;) because a man who hesitates in his speech is silent respecting somewhat of that which he would say. (
L.) See also قَرِدَ.
قَرِدٌ Wool sticking together, and compacted in a lump or lumps: (
A:) wool, and hair, contracted together, and knotted in its extremities. (
L.)
b2: [Hence,] a cloud, or collection of clouds, dissundered, in the tracts of the sky, in parts, or portions, one upon another; cirro-cumulus: (
S,
L:) or of which the several portions are compacted together, (
M,
K,) one upon another; likened to soft hair such as is thus termed: (
M:) or compacted in lumps, not smooth; as also ↓ مُتَقَرِّدٌ. (
AHn.) See also قَرِدٌ.
b3: قَرِدُ الخَصِيلِ A horse [compact in frame;] not lax. (
L,
K.)
A2: A camel [&c.] abounding with قِرْدَان [or ticks]. (
K.)
A3: And قَرِدٌ [an
epithet used as a
subst.] Accumulated foam which the camel casts forth from his mouth. (
TA in art. توج. See an
ex. in that art.
voce مَتَاوِجُ.) قَرْدَدٌ (in which the second د is not incorporated into the first because the word is
quasi-coordinate to the class of those of the measure فَعْلَلٌ,
S,
L,) Elevated ground; (
L,
K;) as also ↓ قُرْدُودَةٌ: (
K:) or elevated and rugged ground; as also ↓ قُرْدُودٌ: (
L:) or a rugged and elevated place; (
S,
L;) as also ↓ قُرْدُودٌ: (
S:) or a tract similar to what is termed قُفّ: (
As:) or a prominent portion of ground by the side of a depressed place, or hollow: (
M:) also, even, or plain, ground: (
L:)
pl. قَرَادِدُ and قَرَادِيدُ; (
S,
L,
K;) the latter form being adopted from a dislike to [the concurrence of] the two dáls: (
S,
L:)
Sb says, that قَرَادِيدُ is a
pl. of قَرْدَدٌ; but as one also says قُرْدُودٌ, there is no reason for this assertion: (
L:)
ISh says, that ↓ قُرْدُودَةٌ signifies elevated and rugged ground producing little herbage, and all of it gibbous: and
Sh, that it signifies an extended strip [of ground], like the قردودة of the back. (
TA.) قُرْدُودٌ: see قَرْدَدٌ, in two places.
قُرْدُودَةٌ: see قَرْدَدٌ.
b2: قُرْدُودَةُ الظَّهْرِ The upper, or highest, part of the back (
L,
K) of any beast of carriage: (
L:) or the withers;
syn. سِيسَآءٌ: (
As,
L:) or the elevated portion of the part called the ثَبَج; (
S,
L;) also called قُرْدُودَةُ الثَّبَجِ. (
L.)
b3: قُرْدُودَةُ الشِّتَآءِ The severity and sharpness of winter: (
K:) or its sterility and severity. (Aboo-
Málik,
L.) قُرَادٌ [a
coll. gen. n., The tick; or ticks;] a certain insect, (
L,
K,) well known, (
L,) that clings to camels and the like, (
Msb,) [and to dogs &c.,] and bites them; (
L;) it is, to them, like the louse to man: (
Msb:) [see also حَلَمَةٌ and حَمْنَانٌ:]
n. un. with ة: (
Msb:)
pl. (of pauc.,
TA,) أَقْرِدَةٌ, (
L,) and (of mult.,
L,) قِرْدَانٌ (
S,
L,
Msb,
K) and قُرُدٌ: (
L:) قُرْدٌ also signifies the same as قُرَادٌ, (
K,) or is a contraction of the
pl. قُرُدٌ. (
L.) أَذَلُّ مِنْ قُرَادٍ and أَسْفَلُ من قراد [Viler than a tick] are proverbial sayings. (
TA.)
A2: القُرَادُ, (
K,) or قُرَادُ الثَّدْىِ, (
L,) or قُرَادُ الصَّدْرِ, (
S,
A,) (
tropical:) The nipple (حَلَمَة) of the breast: (
S,
A,
L,
K:) called قُرَادٌ and حَلَمَةٌ as being likened. to a large tick: (
Mgh in art. حلم:) the nipple of the dug of a mare. (
K.)
A3: أَمُّ القِرْدَانِ The place between the fetlock and hoof of a horse: (
S,
L:) also, the part between the phalanges (سُلَامَيَات) of the foot of a camel. (
L.)
b2: See also 2.
قَرُودٌ A camel that does not impatiently avoid having his ticks (قِرْدَان,) plucked off. (
L,
K.)
b2: [Hence,] (
tropical:) a still, or quiet, man. (
A.) قَرَّادٌ A trainer of the قِرْد [or ape, monkey, or baboon]. (
K.) مُتَقَرِّدٌ: see قَرَدٌ and قَردٌ.
مُتَقَرِّدَةٌ: see قَرَدٌ.
