شَبَكَةٌ
Root: شبك
Full Definition
شَبَكَةٌ
The شَرَكَة [meaning net] of the
صَيَّاد [i. e. fisherman, and fowler or sportsman]; the مِصْيَدَة, or instrument of
الصَّيْد, that is used in the water [i. e. for catching fish] and on the land [i. e. for catching fowls or wild animals]; applied by some peculiarly to the مِصْيَدَة
of the water; and
شُبَّاكٌ signifies the same: pl. of the former شِبَاكٌ and شَبَكَاتٌ and [coll. gen. n.]
شَبَكٌ : and the pl. of
شُبَّاكٌ is شَبَابِيكُ
2 And A certain thing for the head; [a small net, for the head, a veil of net-work, in order that the face may not be known. ]
def.2 Also Wells near together, of which the water is near [to the mouths], communicating [app. by filtration] one with another: so accord. to El-Kutabee: or wells separate, one from another: (M and L in art. مأد:) and, or as some say, wells that are open to view, dug in a rugged place, of the depth of the stature of a man, and twice and thrice that measure, in which the rain-water becomes retained: so called because of their mutual proximity, and confusedness: a single one of them is not called شَبَكَةٌ; for this is only a name for a plural number; but the pl. شِبَاكٌ is applied to aggregates thereof in sundry places: or شِبَاكٌ, or شَبَكَةٌ, signifies wells that are numerous and near together in a [tract of] land; form اِشْتِبَاكُ النُّجُومِ: or, accord. to As, شَبَكَةٌ signifies wells, or other pits or hollows dug in the ground, that are numerous; and the pl. is شِبَاكٌ.
2 And A [tract of] land in which are many wells, not tracts that exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage: or [the pl.] شِبَاكٌ signifies places, of the earth, that are not such as exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage; such as the شِبَاك of El-Basrah.
3 And The burrow of the [field-rat called] جُرَذ: or the burrows thereof, which are near together: pl. شِبَاكٌ.
2 And A certain thing for the head; [a small net, for the head, a veil of net-work, in order that the face may not be known. ]
def.2 Also Wells near together, of which the water is near [to the mouths], communicating [app. by filtration] one with another: so accord. to El-Kutabee: or wells separate, one from another: (M and L in art. مأد:) and, or as some say, wells that are open to view, dug in a rugged place, of the depth of the stature of a man, and twice and thrice that measure, in which the rain-water becomes retained: so called because of their mutual proximity, and confusedness: a single one of them is not called شَبَكَةٌ; for this is only a name for a plural number; but the pl. شِبَاكٌ is applied to aggregates thereof in sundry places: or شِبَاكٌ, or شَبَكَةٌ, signifies wells that are numerous and near together in a [tract of] land; form اِشْتِبَاكُ النُّجُومِ: or, accord. to As, شَبَكَةٌ signifies wells, or other pits or hollows dug in the ground, that are numerous; and the pl. is شِبَاكٌ.
2 And A [tract of] land in which are many wells, not tracts that exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage: or [the pl.] شِبَاكٌ signifies places, of the earth, that are not such as exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage; such as the شِبَاك of El-Basrah.
3 And The burrow of the [field-rat called] جُرَذ: or the burrows thereof, which are near together: pl. شِبَاكٌ.
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