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أَبْرَقُ

Root: برق

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أَبْرَقُ A rope (حَبْل) having two colours; twisted with a black strand and a white strand: and in like manner, a mountain (جَبَل, JK, K) in which are two colours, black and white: and anything having blackness and whiteness together. You say تَيْسٌ أَبْرَقٌ and عَنْزٌ بَرْقَآءُ [A black and white he-goat and she-goat]: and شَاةٌ بَرْقَآءُ a ewe whose white wool is cleft, or divided, by black flocks [or streaks]: أَبْرَقُ and بَرْقَآءُ applied to sheep or goats are like أَبْلَقُ and بَلْقَآءُ applied to beasts of the equine kind, and أَبْقَعُ and بَقْعَآءُ to dogs.
2 بَرْقَآءُ is also a name given to An eye; because it has blackness and whiteness mingled in it: dual بَرْقَاوَانِ. And عَيْنٌ بَرْقَآءُ signifies An eye black in the iris, with whiteness [of the rest] of the bulb.
3 رَوْضَةٌ بَرْقآءُ A meadorc, or garden, in which are two colours.
4 See also بُرْقَةٌ. in seven places.
5 أَبْرَقُ also signifies A certain bird.
6 And [the pl.] بُرْقٌ is used as a name for The [locusts, or crickets, termed] جَنَادِب.

def.2 Also A certain Persian medicine, good for the memory.


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