ليس للملك أن يبخل لأن البخل لقاح الحرص

[madelung]

ليس للملك أن يبخل لأن البخل لقاح الحرص

Hi, in modern dictionaries, likah means progeny and vaccination. The word has a different meaning in the above sentence and other sentences I have encountered. Does this word have other meanings? Thanks.

 

[elroy]

I think here it means “protection”:

Stinginess is the protection of the cautious.

This is the same meaning that’s at the root of the “vaccine” meaning.

 

[Sadda7]

"Parsimony breeds\fecundates*\fuels greed". This is similar to a known saying "المشورة لِقاح العقول"

*Oxford definition: (literary) Make fruitful.

 

[madelung]

"Parsimony breeds\fecundates*\fuels greed". This is similar to a known saying "المشورة لِقاح العقول"

*Oxford definition: (literary) Make fruitful.

Thank you. So can we say "seed" for this word?