Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry قثا
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4 اقثأت الأَرْضُ, (AZ, S, O,) or اقثأ المَكَانُ, (K,) The land, or the place, abounded with the [species of cucumber called] قِثّآء. (AZ, S, O, K.) and اقثأ القَوْمُ The people had abundance of قثّآء. (S, O, K.) قِثَّآءٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and قُثَّآءٌ, (O, Msb, K,) the former of which, with kesr, in the more common, (Msb, TA,) [A certain vegetable,] well-known: (K, TA:) [a species of cucumber; cucumis sativus β fructu flavo majore: (Delile's Floræ Ægypt. Illustr., no. 928:]) or the [cucumber called] خِيَار [q. v.]: (S, O, K:) or a general name for the خِيَار, the عَجُور [q. v.], and the فَقُّوس [or فَقُّوص q. v.]: but some apply the name to a species resembling the خيار: (Msb, TA:) and it is said that it is lighter (أَخَفُّ) than the خيار: also that عَجُور signifies large قِثّآء: (TA:) the n. un. is قثّآءة. (S, O, Msb.)
قِثَّآءُ الحِمَارِ see voce عَلْقَمٌ.
مَقْثَأَةٌ and مَقْثُؤَةٌ, (S, O, K, TA,) or أَرْضٌ مَقْثَأَةٌ and مَقْثُؤَةٌ, (Msb,) A place, or land, of قثّآء, (S, Msb, K,) where قثّآء are sown and grow. (TA.)
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
