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أَبْلَقُ

Root: بلق

Full Definition

أَبْلَقُ , applied to a horse, fem. بَلْقَآءُ, Black and white: or white in the hind legs as high as the thighs: pl. بُلْقٌ: which is applied by Ru-beh to mountains: but the Arabs apply the epithet ابلق to a beast of the equine kind, and أَبْرَقُ to a mountain and to a sheep or goat: (Lh, TA in art. برق:) the former is also applied to a rope. طَلَبَ الأَبْلَقَ العَقُوقَ means He sought an impossible thing; because ابلق is applied to a male, and عقوق means pregnant: or الابلق العقوق means the dawn; because it breaks, from عَقَّهُ signifying شَقَّهُ.


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