مُعْنِقٌ
Root: عنق
Full Definition
2 Also, the former, Hard and elevated land or ground, having around it such as is plain, or soft, extending about a mile, and less: pl. مَعَانِيقُ: and they have imagined it to be termed مِعْنَاقٌ , [partly on account of this pl., and partly] because of the many instances like مُتْئِمٌ and مِتْآمٌ, and مُذْكِرٌ and مِذْكَارٌ.
3 And مَرْبَأَةٌ مُعْنِقَةٌ A lofty place of observation.
4 See also مِعْنَاقٌ, in three places.
5 مُعْنِقٌ also occurs in a trad., applied as an epithet to a believer, meaning
6 And مُعْنِقَاتٌ, as applied by Dhu-r-Rummeh to [portions of sand such as are termed] أَدْعَاص [pl. of دِعْصٌ] means Lying in advance of others.
7 See also the next paragraph.
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