أَيْكٌNumerous, luxuriant or tangled or dense, trees: or a place where water collects and sinks into the ground (غَيْضَةٌ) producing [trees of the kinds called] سِدْر and أَرَاكand similar soft trees: or a collection of any trees; even, of palm-trees: or, as some say, a place where [trees of the kind called] أَثْلgrow, and where is a collection of them: or, accord. to AHn, an abundant collection ofأَرَاكin one place: or trees; said to be of the [kind called] أَرَاك: n. un. with ة: IAar says, [you say,] أَيْكَةٌأَثْلٍ and رَهْطٌ, and قَصِيمَةٌ. أَصْحَابُ ٱلْأَيْكَةِ occurs in the Kur in four chapters: [xv. 78 and xxvi. 176 and xxxviii. 12 and 1.13:] he who reads thus means, by the latter word, الغَيْضَة [explained above, and also signifying the thicket, or collection of tangled trees, &c.]; or the tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees: another reading is لَيْكَةَ; accord. to which, this is the name of the town [in which the people here mentioned dwelt]: or, as some say, the two words are [applied to the same place,] like بَكَّةُ and مَكَّةُ: but Zj says that another reading is allowable, and very good; i. e. أَصْحَابُ لَيْكَةِ, as being originally الأيْكَةِ; for the Arabs say, اَلَحْمَرُ قَدْجَآءَنِى and لَحْمَرُ جَآإَنِى for الأَحْمَرُ; so that لَيْكَة is like لَحْمَر.
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