Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُعْتَنَقٌ

Root: عنق

Full Definition

مُعْتَنَقٌ A place where the أَعْنَاق [app. meaning upper portions] of the جِبَال [or mountains], accord. to the copies of the K, [and thus in the O,] but correctly حِبَال, with the unpointed خ, [i. e. elongated and elevated tracts of sand], emerge from the سَرَاب [or mirage]: used in this sense by Ru-beh.


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