غُرْنَيْقٌ
Root: غرنق
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غُرْنَيْقٌ
and
غُرْنُوقٌ and
غِرْنَوْقٌ A certain aquatic bird, long in the neck and in the legs, white, or black: [app. the white stork, ardea ciconia; or, accord. to some, the black stork, ardea nigra:] or, accord. to IAmb, the males [or male] thereof: or the first, as also the second, signifies the كُرْكِىّ [or Numidean crane, ardea virgo]: or a certain bird resembling this: pl. غَرَانِيقُ. It is related of the Prophet that [when he was reciting the words of the Kur , “ Have ye considered El-Lát, and El-'Ozzà, and Menáh, the other third? ”] the Devil put into his mouth the saying تِلْكَ الغَرَانِيقُ العُلَى [Those are the most high
غرانيق, as though meaning cranes, for the Numidian crane is remarkable in the East for its superlatively-high flight]; referring, as IAar says, to the idols, which were asserted to be intercessors with God, wherefore they are likened to the birds that rise high into the sky: or غرانيق may in this case be a pl. of one of the sings. expl. in what here follows [but applied to females].
2 غُرْنَيْقٌ and غِرْنَيْقٌ and غُرْنُوقٌ and غِرْنَوْقٌ and and غِرْنَاقٌ and غَرَوْنَقٌ and غُرَانِقٌ signify
2 غُرْنَيْقٌ and غِرْنَيْقٌ and غُرْنُوقٌ and غِرْنَوْقٌ and and غِرْنَاقٌ and غَرَوْنَقٌ and غُرَانِقٌ signify
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