فِلْذَةٌ

A piece, or portion, of liver, (S, M, O, L, K,) cut in an oblong from, (O,) and of flesh-meat, (S, O, L, K,) and of property, (S, O, L,) and of gold, and of silver, (M, L, K,) &c.: (S, O, Msb:) a piece of flesh-meat cut in an oblong form: (As, T, M, L:) plural [of mult.] فِلَذٌ (T, S, L, K) and [of pauc.] أَفْلَاذٌ, (T, M, L, K,) the latter irregular, as though the augmentative letter [in the singular] were elided; or فِلْذٌ may be a dialect var. of فِلْذَةٌ, and so this plural may be regular. (M, L.)

أَفْلَاذُ الأَرْضِ, (M, L, K,) or أَفْلَاذُ كَبِدِ الأَرْضِ, occurring in a tradition, (As, T, A, L,) relating to the signs of the day of resurrection, according to different relations thereof, (L,) means (tropical:) The buried treasures of the earth, (As, T, M, L, K,) and its riches. (L.)

And أَفْلَاذُ كَبِدِ مَكَّةَ means (tropical:) The principal and choicest persons of the inhabitants of Mekkeh; of the tribe of Kureysh: so called because the liver is one of the noble parts of the body. (L.)

الفِلَذَاتُ [(not to be mistaken for الفِلِزَّاتُ) is a plural of الفِلْذَةُ, and] signifies الأَجْسَامُ السَّبْعَةُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The seven material substances; namely, the four elements, (fire, air, earth, and water,) and the three products composed of these (which are minerals, vegetables, and animals)]. (MF. [But in the copy of his work which I use, الاجساد is erroneously put for الجسام.])