آنُكٌ

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آنُكٌ pure رَصَاص [or lead]: or black رِصِاص: i. q. أُسْرُبُّ; i. e. رَصَاصٌ قَلْعِىٌّ; so says Kt; and Az says, I think it is an arabicized word: or white اسربّ: or black اسربّ: or pure اسربّ: or i. q. قَزْدِيرٌ [which is applied in the present day to tin, and pewter]: El-Kásim Ibn-Maan says, I heard an Arab of the desert say, هٰذَا رَصَاصٌ آنُكٌ, i. e. [this is] pure [lead]: it is of the measure أَفْعُلٌ, [originally أَأْنُكٌ,] which is one of the forms of pls., like أَفْلُسٌ; and there is no other word of this measure, among sing. nouns, except أَشُدٌّ [originally أَشْدُدٌ], and آجُرٌ in the dial. of those who pronounce it without teshdeed: it is disputed, however, whether أَشُدٌّ be a sing. or a pl.: [and as to آجُرٌ, see what follows:] or, accord. to some, آنُكٌ is of the measure فَاعُلٌ, and is the only word of that measure in Arabic: or it is a foreign word; and so are آجُرٌ and [the proper names] آمُلُ and كَابُلُ. It is said, in a trad., that he who listens to a singing female slave, آنُك shall be poured into his ears on the day of resurrection.

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