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بُرْقٌ

Root: برق

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بُرْقٌ [Lizards of the species called] ضِبَاب, pl. of ضَبٌّ. It is app. pl. of بَرُوقٌ or of أَبْرَقُ: more probably, I think, of the former; from the raising of the tail, which is a habit of those lizards.]

def.2 See also بُرْقَةٌ.
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