بَاشَقٌ

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بَاشَقٌ and بَاشِقٌ, the latter being allowable accord. to some for the sake of conformity to the usual Arabic measure, as in خاتم and دانق and طابع and the like; perhaps derived from بَشْقٌ meaning the “ looking sharply, ” or “ intently; ” or from بَشَقَ meaning “ he took, ” or “ seized; ” or it is arabicized, from [the Persian] بَاشَهْ; A certain bird; [the musket, or sparrow-hawk; falco nisus;] a bird of beautiful form, the smallest of birds of prey, that preys upon sparrows and other birds of their size: it is of the birds called صُقُور, [pl. of صَقْرٌ,] as are also the بَازِى and the شَاهِين and the زُرَّق and the يُؤْيُؤ: pl. بَوَاشِقُ.

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