أَبْقَعُ

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أَبْقَعُ , applied to a غُرَاب [or bird of the crowkind], In which is blackness and whiteness; and so applied to a dog: (Lh, TA voce أَبْرَقُ, q. v.:) or, applied to the former, having whiteness in the breast; and this is the worst [or most ill-omened] of the crow-kind: [it is this species, accord. to some, which is called غُرَابُ البَيْنِ: (see art. بين:)] or, applied to a غراب &c., party-coloured, or pied: or the whitewinged غراب: (ISh, TA in art. حذف:) pl., when thus applied, بُقْعَانٌ, or بِقْعَانٌ, with kesr; the quality of a subst. being predominant in it; but when it is regarded as an epithet, [in which case the fem. is بَقْعَآءُ,] its pl. is بُقْعٌ.
2 Hence, as being likened to such a bird, Anything bad, evil, wicked, mischievous, [ill-omened,] or the like.
3 And Leprous.
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