Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَقْلٌ

Root: حقل

Full Definition

حَقْلٌ Seed-produce when its leaves have branched forth, and become apparent and numerous, before its stalks have become thick: or when its shoots have come forth near together: or as long as it is green: or of which the head has come forth. (Lth, L in art. فرخ.)
2 And Land such as is termed قَرَاح; i. e. land in which are no trees: or good قَرَاح: n. un. with ة: or a good قَرَاح in which one sows; as also with ة: or a place that has never been sown; and so, accord. to some, with ة: whence, it is said in a prov., لَا تُنْبِتُ البَقْلَةَ إِلَّا الحَقْلَةُ [Nothing but the good seed-plot produces the herb]: said to be applied to a base saying proceding from a base man: [or it means, as the father, os is the son: ] but ISd says that الحقلة is not known; and he thinks that the ة is added in order to make it accord with البقلة; or that it means a portion of what is termed حَقْلٌ: the pl. is حُقُولٌ.


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