بُوقٌ

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بُوقٌ [A trumpet;] a certain thing in which one blows; in which one blows as in a musical pipe: [mostly used in war, but] mentioned by a poet, cited by As, as used by the Christians: IDrd says, The Arabs used this word, but I know not its origin: Esh-Shiháb says, in the 'Ináyeh, that it is arabicized, from [the Persian] بُورِى: pl. بُوقَاتٌ and بِيقَانٌ (Msb [in my copy of the Mgh, erroneously, بِيَقَاتٌ]) [and أَبْوَاقٌ, a pl. of pauc., commonly used in the present day]. نَفَخَ فِى البُوقِ [He blew the trumpet, lit., in the trumpet,] means [also] he spoke that in which was no profit.
2 [Hence,] One who does not conceal a secret; as also بَوْقٌ .
3 Also A certain thing in which the miller blows; accord. to the copies of the K, resembling a مِنْقَاب; but this is a mistake: it is a thing resembling a [shell of the kind called] مِنْقَاب, the hole of which is twisted; and sometimes the miller blows in it, raising his voice; and what he means thereby is known.

def.2 See also بَوْقٌ.

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