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بُقْعَانُ

Root: بقع

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بُقْعَانُ , with damm, mentioned in a trad., The servants and slaves of Syria; because of their whiteness and redness, or blackness; or because of their whiteness and redness and blackness likened to a thing such as is termed أَبْقَعُ; or because they are of the Greeks and the Negroes: or so called because of the mixture of their colours; their predominant colours being white and yellow: A'Obeyd says that what is meant is whiteness and yellowness, and they are thus called because of their difference of colours and their being begotten of two races: but Kt says, البُقْعَانُ signifies those in whom is blackness and whiteness; and one who is white without any admixture of blackness is not called ابقع: how then should the Greeks be called بقعان when they are purely white? and he adds that he thinks the meaning to be, the offspring of Arabs, who are black, [which is not to be understood literally, but rather in the sense of swarthy,] by female slaves of the Greeks, who are white.
2 بُقْعٌ is also applied to Waterers (سُقَاةٌ); because their bodies become sprinkled with the water, so that some parts thereof are wetted.
3 رَأَيْتُ قَوْمًا بُقْعًا I saw a people wearing patched garments; said by El-Hajjáj; and thus explained by him; i. e., by reason of their evil condition.
4 ذَوْدٌ بُقْعُ الذُّرَى A herd of camels having white humps.
5 الأَبْقَعُ The mirage; because of its varying, or assuming different hues.
6 أَرْضٌ بَقْعَآءُ Land containing [or diversified with] small pebbles.
7 سَنَةٌ بَقْعَآءُ A barren, or an unfruitful, year: or a year in which is fruitfulness and barrenness. And عَامٌ أَبْقَعُ A year in which the rain falls in places of the land, not universally. And عَامٌ أُبَيْقِعُ , the dim. form being used to denote terribleness, A year of little rain.


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