كَلَأَهُ

, (S, K,) aorist كَلَاَ , verbal noun كَلْءٌ (K) and كِلَاءَةٌ (S, K) and كِلَاءٌ (K) [but respecting this last see a verse of Jemeel cited below], He (i. e. God, S) guarded him, or kept him, or kept him safely. (S, K.)

إِذْهَبُوا فِى كِلَاءَةِ اللّٰهِ Go ye in the safe keeping of God. (S, TA.)

In the following verse of Jemeel,

فَكُونِى بِخَيْرٍ فِى كِلَاءِ وَغِبْطَةٍ

وَإِنْ كُنْتِ قَدْ أَزْمَعْتِ صَرْمِى وَبِغْضَتِى

[Then be thou in prosperity, in safe keeping (of God), and in happy condition, even if thou have firmly resolved to cut me and to detest me], كِلَاءٌ may be a verbal noun; or it may be plural of كِلَأءَةٌ; or it may be put for كِلَاءَةٌ, the ة being elided by a necessary poetical licence. (Abu-l- Hasan.)

The verb is also used without hemzeh, thus; كَلَاتُ, يَكْلُوكُمْ; and كَلَيْتُ, يَكْلَاكُمْ; in the dialect of Kureysh; verbal noun كِلَايَةٌ: as the pass. particle n. of both, مَكْلُوٌّ is more commonly used than مَكْلِىٌّ, which is correctly used as the pass. particle n. of كَلَيْتُ. (TA.)

كَلَأَ القَوْمَ (assumed tropical:) He acted as a scout (رَبِيْيءَة) for the party, or people. (TA.)

كَلَأَ بَصَرَهُ فِى شَىْءٍ, (K, TA, [in the CK نَظَرَهُ,]) or ↓ أَكْلَأَهُ, (S,) He repeatedly turned his eye to a thing; looked at it again and again. (S, K.)

كَلَأَ النَّجْمَ (tropical:) He watched the star, to see when it would rise. (A.)

-A2- كَلَأَ الدَّيْنُ, (S, K,) or كَلُوءَ, verbal noun كُلُوءٌ, act. particle n. كَالِيءٌ, (A,) The debt, or its payment, was put off, or postponed, or delayed. (S, A, K.)

كَلَأَ عُمْرُهُ (tropical:) His life came to an end: (K:) or was long, and was delayed. (A.)

كَلَأَ [unless this be a mistake for ↓ كلّأ] He postponed, or delayed, a thing. (TA, article نَسَأَ.)

-A3- كَلَأَ, (K,) verbal noun كَلْءٌ, (As,) He beat with a whip. (As, K.)

-A4- كَلَأَتِ النَّاقَةُ, (S, K,) and ↓ اكلأت, (S,) The she-camel ate كَلَأ, or herbage. (A 'Obeyd, S, K.)

-A5- كَلَأَتِ الأَرْضُ, (K,) and كَلِيءَت, and ↓ اكلأت, (S, K,) verbal noun إكْلَاءٌ, (TA,) and ↓ استكلأت, (K,) The land contained, (S,) or abounded with, (K,) كَلَأ, or herbage. (S, K.)