Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بِرْقِشٌ

Root: برقش

Full Definition

بِرْقِشٌ A certain bird, different from that called أَبُو بَرَاقِشَ, (K, accord. to the TA, [for we there read طَائِرٌ آخَرُ; the bird called ابو براقش having been mentioned before; but in the CK, in the place of آخَرُ, we find أَخْضَرُ, i. e., green;]) of small size, that assumes various colours, of the kind called حُمَّر, like the sparrow, and called شُرْشُورٌ by the people of El-Hijáz: but Az states his having heard certain of the Arabs of the desert call it ابو براقش.


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