Full Definition
أَنُوقٌ
A certain bird; i. e. the رَخَمَة [or female of the vultur percnopterus]; called by Kumeyt ذَاتُ ٱسْمَيْنِ [possessor of two names] because having these two appellations: or the eagle: and also the former bird: ISk cites 'Omárah as saying that it is in his opinion the eagle; but that people say it is the رخمة; and he adds, [alluding to a prov., which see below,] that the eggs of the رخمة are found in ruins, and in plain country: or the male of the
رَخَم: or a certain black bird, having what resembles the
عُرْف [or comb of the cock], that deposits its eggs in remote places: or a certain black bird, like a great hen, bald in the fore part of the head, having a yellow bill, or having a long bill: she guards her eggs, and defends her young one, and keeps with her offspring, and submits not herself to any but her mate, and migrates among the first of the migrating birds, and returns among the first of the returning birds, and will not fly while moulting, and will not be deceived by her small feathers but waits until they become quills and then flies, and will not remain constantly in the nests, and will not alight upon the quiver knowing it to contain arrows: the word is sing. and pl.: or its pl. is أُنُقٌ. Hence the prov., أَعَزُّ مِنْ بَيْضِ الأَنُوقِ [More rare than the eggs of the anook]: because this bird guards its eggs, so that they are hardly ever, or never, found; for its nests are on the tops of mountains, and in difficult and distant places; notwithstanding which, it is said to be stupid: ISd says that the female bird called رخمة may be meant thereby; or the male, because the eggs of the male exist not; or the eggs of the latter may be meant because he often guards them, like as does the male ostrich.
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