Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَحْقَبُ

Root: حقب

Full Definition

أَحْقَبُ A wild ass having a whiteness in the belly: or white in the part where the kind girth (حَقَب) would be placed: the former is the more approved meaning: or a wild ass; so called because white in the flanks: fem. حَقْبَآءُ: pl. حُقْبٌ.
2 Also حَقْبَآءُ A قارة [or small isolated mountain], slender, rising high into the sky, of which the flanks, or middle parts, (الحَقْوَانِ,) are enveloped by the mirage (السَّرَاب, so in the K accord. to the TA), or by dust (التُّرَاب, accord. to the CK and a MS. copy of the K): or حَقْبَآءُ, or قَارَةٌ حَقْبَآءُ, signifies a قارة having, in its middle part, dust of a whitish hue (أَعْفَرُ), with بُرْقَة [app. meaning a mixture of blackness and whiteness] of the rest.


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