هُدْهُدٌ
Root: هد
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هُدْهُدٌ
A certain bird, well known; [namely, the hoopee, or upupa of Linnæus; so this bird is called in the present day; and this, accord. to a common tradition, is the bird mentioned in the Kur, xxvii. 20;] as also هُدَهِدٌ and
هُدَاهِدٌ : or the last, a certain bird resembling the pigeon: or هُدْهُدٌ signifies a pigeon that cooes much; as also
هُدَاهِدٌ : and any bird that cooes; that utters the cry called
قَرْقَرَة; (L, K, TA [in the CK, يُفَرْفِرُ is put for يُقَرْقِرُ]) as also
هُدَاهِدٌ : pl. هَدَاهِدُ and هَدَاهِيدُ: but ISd says of the latter, I know not how this is, unless the sing. be هَدْهَادٌ. Er-Rá'ee says,
[Like a هداهد whose wing the shooters have broken]: As says, he means the فَاخِتَة, or the دُبْسِىّ, or the وَرَشَان, or the هُدْهُد, or a man, or camels: and Lh says, that Ks asserts him to mean, by هداهد, the dim. of هُدْهُدٌ: but As disapproves of this; and so does ISd; but the latter adds, that it may perhaps be for هُدَيْهِدٌ; as some of the Arabs say دُوَابَّةٌ and شُوَابَّةٌ for دُويْبَّةٌ and شُوَيْبَّةٌ; though they are only known to change the ى into ا before a double consonant.كَهُدَاهِدٍ كَسَرَ الرُّمَاةُ جَنَاحَهُ
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