قلد

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ل د (q-l-d).

Pronunciation

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Verb

1. to wreathe, to wind, to twist
2. to ladle out, to collect

Verb

قَلَّدَ • (qallada) II (non-past يُقَلِّدُ (yuqallidu), verbal noun تَقْلِيد (taqlīd))

1. to imitate, to ape, to represent on the stage
2. to wind round
3. to adorn with a necklace; to put on a necktie
4. to gird with a sword
5. to invest, to make (someone) a prince, to give (someone) full power
6. to hand down old sayings, truths, traditions, etc.

References

• “قلد” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قلد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 486–487
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “قلد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2557
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قلد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen, page 852
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قلد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1052