أَبْرَقَ
Root: برق
Form: 4
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أَبْرَقَIV
see 1, in eight places.
2 ابرق, or ابرق بِسَيْفِهِ, said of a man, He made a sign with his sword [by waving it about so as to make it glisten].
3 And ابرق He betook himself, or directed his course, towards the lightning.
4 He entered into [a tract wherein was] lightning.
5 He saw lightning. Tufeyl uses the phrase أَبْرَقْنَ الخَرِيفَ as meaning They saw the lightning of [the season, or the rain, called] the خريف.
6 He was smitten, or assailed, or affected, by lightning.
def.2 ابرقهُ الفَزَعُ [app. Fright, or fear, made him to be confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right way: see بَرِقَ].
2 [And hence, perhaps,] ابرق الصَّيْدَ He roused the game, or chase.
2 ابرق, or ابرق بِسَيْفِهِ, said of a man, He made a sign with his sword [by waving it about so as to make it glisten].
3 And ابرق He betook himself, or directed his course, towards the lightning.
4 He entered into [a tract wherein was] lightning.
5 He saw lightning. Tufeyl uses the phrase أَبْرَقْنَ الخَرِيفَ as meaning They saw the lightning of [the season, or the rain, called] the خريف.
6 He was smitten, or assailed, or affected, by lightning.
def.2 ابرقهُ الفَزَعُ [app. Fright, or fear, made him to be confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right way: see بَرِقَ].
2 [And hence, perhaps,] ابرق الصَّيْدَ He roused the game, or chase.
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