دِيكٌ

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دِيكٌ a word of well-known meaning, The domestic cock; i. e. the male of the دَجَاج: pl. دِيَكَةٌ and دُيُوكٌ and أَدْيَاكٌ. Sometimes it is employed as meaning دَجَاجَةٌ, [which is a n. un., applied to the male and to the female,] and is therefore made [grammatically] fem., [though still applying to the male, agreeably with a common license in the case of a masc. noun that has a fem. syn., and vice versa,] as in the saying, دَجَاجَةٌوَزَّقَتِ الدَّيكُ بِصَوْتٍ زَقَّا [And the cock muted with a sound, with vehement muting]; because the ديك is also a دَجَاجَة: so says ISd.
2 دِيكُ الجِنِّ [The cock of the jinn, or genii;] a certain little creeping thing, or insect, (دُوَيْبَّة,) found in gardens. And the surname of the poet 'Abd-Es-Selám.

def.2 Solicitously affectionate; compassionate: or solicitously affectionate; affectionate to off spring; applied to a man, in the dial. of ElYemen: so accord. to El-Muärrij; who says that hence the ديك [or domestic cock] is thus called.

def.3 The [season called] رَبِيع [here meaning spring]; as though so called because of the various colours of its plants, or herbage, and thus likened to the ديك [or domestic cock].

def.4 One, and all, of the three stones on which the cooking-pot is placed: used alike as sign. and pl.

def.5 The protuberant bone behind the ear of the horse: IKh explains it as meaning a certain bone behind the ear; not particularizing a horse nor any other animal.

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