support, prop

see 8.

He leaned upon his hands, or arms. Mohammad was seen to do so when he raised and extended his hands in supplication to God. (IAth.)

, (S, K,) inf. n. إِيكَاءٌ, (S,) He set up for him a thing upon which to recline (مُتَّكَأٌ.) (S, K.) ― -b2- أَتْكَأَهُ, (in which ت is substituted for و,) inf. n. إِتْكَاهُ, He propped him up by a cushion or other thing whereon to recline; made him recline upon a cushion &c. (AZ, TA.) ― -b3- ضَرَبَهُ فَأَتْكَأَهُ, (A,) or طَعَنَهُ حَتَّى أَتْكَأَهُ, originally أَوْكَأَهُ, (S,) (tropical:) He smote him, (A,) or pierced him, (S,) so that he made him fall in a reclining posture: (S, A, K: *) or, so that he threw him down upon his left side. (K.) ― -b4- See 3.

see 8.

He sat in a firm, or settled, manner: and he sat leaning upon one of his sides: (Msb, in art. تكأ:) the vulgar know it only in the latter sense: but it signifies he leaned, rested, or stayed, his back, or his side, against, or upon, a thing: and he leaned, rested, or stayed, himself in any manner, upon a thing. (IAth, in Msb, art. وكأ.) ― -b2- اِتَّكَأَ عَلَى شَىْءٍ, (S,) and ↓ توكّأ, (S, K,) and ↓ اوكأ; (K;) and ↓ تَكِيأَ, [in which ت is substituted for و,] aor. يَتْكَأُ, inf. n. تَكْءٌ; (Lth;) and ↓ وَكَأَ; (CK;) He leaned, or reclined, upon a thing; supported, propped, or stayed, himself upon it. (K.) ― -b3- اِتَّكَأَ He reclined upon a cushion, &c. (TA.) ― -b4- اِتَّكَأَ He made for him [i. e., app., for himself,] a thing upon which to lean, or recline: (CK, and a MS. copy of the K:) or he made him to be a thing upon which to lean, or recline. (TA.) [The latter seems to be wrong, unless the verb be read أَتْكَأَ.] ― -b5- اِتَّكَأْنَا عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) We ate a repast with, or at the abode of, such a one. (TA.) -A2- اِتَّكَأَتْ (MF) and ↓ تَوَكَّأَتْ (K) She (a camel) was taken with the pains of labour, and cried out. (K.) Accord. to Lth, تَوَكُّوأُ النَّاقَةِ signifies تصلّفها عند مخاضها: (TA:) [but it is evident that the right reading is تصلّقها; and the sense agreeable with the above explanation].

(in which ت is substituted for و, TA) A staff, or stick, (K,) upon which one leans in walking; a walking-stick: (TA:) that upon which one leans or reclines. (S, K.) ― -b2- One who reclines much. (S, K.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A heavy person [app., in disposition]. (TA.)

act. part. n. of 8. ― -b2- لَا آكُلُ مُتَّكِيأًا I (said Mohammad) eat not sitting in a firm, or settled, posture, cross-legged, or in such other similar manner as is adapted for much eating: for he used to eat sitting upon his hams, with his shanks erect, so as to be ready to rise. The meaning is not [only] “ inclining on one side, ” as the vulgar among students imagine. (K.)

A place in which one reclines: (S:) a chamber, or sitting-room. (Akh, S.) ― -b2- That upon which one leans, or reclines, in eating, drinking, or talking. (Zj.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Food, or a repast: so called because people used to recline when they sat to eat: but the Muslims are forbidden to do so. [See مُتَّكِيأٌ.] It is said to have this last meaning in the Kur. xii. 31. (TA.)