ضُوَعٌ
Root: ضوع
Full Definition
ضُوَعٌ
and ضِوَعٌ A certain night-bird, [a species of owl, i. e.,] of the kind termed
هَام: or [a male owl;] the male of the
بُوم; accord. to El-Mufaddal: said by ADk to be a bird that utters a scream when it perceives the daybreak: or the كَرَوَان [a name now given to the stonecurlew, or charadrius œdicnemus]: or a certain black bird, resembling the
غُرَاب [or crow], smaller than this, but red in its wings, these being of a roseate colour: so says AHát, on the authority of Et-Táïfee: accord. to others, he says, it is a small bird, less than the
دُخَّل
and the
حُمَّر; and in like manner says Th: also that the
[which may be the fem. or a n. un.] is of a colour inclining to yellow, dusky and blackish externally, and yellow and ash-coloured within, short in the neck and tail, smaller than the sparrow; and that it is thus called because of the cry that it utters at the commencement of daybreak: accord. to El-Hanashee, the ضُوَع is a bird such as is termed
أَبْغَث [q. v.], resembling the domestic hen, the flesh of which is good: but he adds that it has been said by some to be not a bird: and in another place of the book he says that the
is black, like the
غُرَاب, a little larger than the
ضُجْرَة, red in the
خَوَافِق: (O: [but الخَوَافِق is an obvious mistranscription for الخَوَافِى: see خَافِيَةٌ:)] the pl. is أَضْوَاعٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and ضِيعَانٌ.
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