بُرْقَةٌ
Root: برق
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بُرْقَةٌ
A quantity of lightning: pl.
بُرْقٌ ; or [this is a coll. gen. n., of which the former is the n. un.; or, probably, it is a mistranscription, and] the pl. is بُرَقٌ, also pronounced بُرُقٌ.
def.2 Rugged ground in which are stones and sand and earth mixed together, the stones thereof mostly white, but some being red, and black, and the earth white and of a whitish dust-colour, and sometimes by its side are meadows (رَوْض); as also أَبْرَقُ and : or a portion of such land (أَرْض) as is termed , which consists of tracts containing black stones mixed with white sand, and which, when spacious, is termed أَبْرَقُ : [and] a mountain mixed with sand; as also أَبْرَقُ : the pl. of بُرْقَةٌ is بُرَقٌ and بِرَاقٌ; and that of is أَبَارِقُ, after the manner of a subst., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it; and that of is بَرْقَاوَاتٌ. The بُرَق of the
2 [The colour denoted by the epithet أَبْرَقُ: in a mountain, a mixture of blackness and whiteness: see حَقْبَآءُ, voce أَحْقَبُ.]
def.3 Paucity of grease or gravy in food.
def.2 Rugged ground in which are stones and sand and earth mixed together, the stones thereof mostly white, but some being red, and black, and the earth white and of a whitish dust-colour, and sometimes by its side are meadows (رَوْض); as also أَبْرَقُ and : or a portion of such land (أَرْض) as is termed , which consists of tracts containing black stones mixed with white sand, and which, when spacious, is termed أَبْرَقُ : [and] a mountain mixed with sand; as also أَبْرَقُ : the pl. of بُرْقَةٌ is بُرَقٌ and بِرَاقٌ; and that of is أَبَارِقُ, after the manner of a subst., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it; and that of is بَرْقَاوَاتٌ. The بُرَق of the
2 [The colour denoted by the epithet أَبْرَقُ: in a mountain, a mixture of blackness and whiteness: see حَقْبَآءُ, voce أَحْقَبُ.]
def.3 Paucity of grease or gravy in food.
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