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عَقِيقٌ

Root: عق

Full Definition

عَقِيقٌ Cleft, split, slit, ripped, or rent; and cut; as also مَعْقُوقٌ .
2 And [hence] Any channel which the water of a torrent has cloven of old and made wide: and a valley: pl. أَعِقَّةٌ and عَقَائِقُ. And عَقَائِقُ signifies also Pools of water in cleft furrows: and some say, red sands.
3 See also عَقِيقَةٌ, in two places.

def.2 Also [Carnelian;] a species of فُصُوص [or stones that are set in rings]; a sort of stone, or red خَرَز [meaning precious stones], of which فُصُوص are made; existing in ElYemen, near to Esh-Shihr, said by Et-Teefáshee to be brought from mines thereof at San'à, and on the shores of the Sea of Roomeeyeh; one kind thereof is of a turbid appearance, like water running from salted flesh-meat, and having in it faint white lines, and this, Et-Teefáshee says, is what is known by the appellation الرطبى [so in my original]; the best kind is the red; then, the yellow; then, the white; and the other kinds are bad: or, as some say, the streaked (المُشَطَّب) is the best: [I omit some absurd assertions in the K and TA respecting various virtues supposed to be possessed by this stone:] the n. un. is with ة: and the pl. is عَقَائِقُ. [العَقِيقُ اليَمَانِىُّ is an appel-lation applied by some to The agate.]
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