بَقٌّ
Root: بق
Full Definition
بَقٌّ
: see بَقَاقٌ.
2 بَقَّةٌ A woman having many children: and a woman that brings forth many children.
3 أَثَرٌ بَقٌّ [A trace, mark, track, impression, or the like,] that is plainly apparent, or conspicuous.
def.2 Also, a pl. n.; [or rather a coll. gen. n.;] sing., or n. un., بَقَّةٌ; Gnats, or musquitoes; syn. بَعُوضٌ: or large بَعُوض: the poet 'Abder-Rahmán Ibn-El-Hakam, cited by IB, speaks of their singing [or humming]. يَا عَيْنَ بَقَّةٍ [O eye of a gnat or musquito] denotes smallness of the person of him to whom it is said; or of the eye, as being likened to the eye of the gnat or musquito. (Har p. 619. [See an ex. voce حُزُقٌّ.])
2 Also, [in the M is here added “ it is said, ” but this implies uncertainty where none exists,] A kind of insect, [namely, bugs,] resembling the louse, [but larger,] wide, red, and stinking, [and hence termed بَقٌّ مُنْتِنٌ,] found in bed-frames, or couch-frames, and in walls, [and therefore termed بَقُّ الخَشَبِ and بَقُّ الحِيطَانِ,] called also بَنَاتُ الحَصِيرِ [from being found in mats]; when one kills them, he smells [what resembles] the odour of bitter almonds proceeding from them.
3 شَجَرَةٌ البَقِّ [The elmtree]: see دَرْدَارٌ.
2 بَقَّةٌ A woman having many children: and a woman that brings forth many children.
3 أَثَرٌ بَقٌّ [A trace, mark, track, impression, or the like,] that is plainly apparent, or conspicuous.
def.2 Also, a pl. n.; [or rather a coll. gen. n.;] sing., or n. un., بَقَّةٌ; Gnats, or musquitoes; syn. بَعُوضٌ: or large بَعُوض: the poet 'Abder-Rahmán Ibn-El-Hakam, cited by IB, speaks of their singing [or humming]. يَا عَيْنَ بَقَّةٍ [O eye of a gnat or musquito] denotes smallness of the person of him to whom it is said; or of the eye, as being likened to the eye of the gnat or musquito. (Har p. 619. [See an ex. voce حُزُقٌّ.])
2 Also, [in the M is here added “ it is said, ” but this implies uncertainty where none exists,] A kind of insect, [namely, bugs,] resembling the louse, [but larger,] wide, red, and stinking, [and hence termed بَقٌّ مُنْتِنٌ,] found in bed-frames, or couch-frames, and in walls, [and therefore termed بَقُّ الخَشَبِ and بَقُّ الحِيطَانِ,] called also بَنَاتُ الحَصِيرِ [from being found in mats]; when one kills them, he smells [what resembles] the odour of bitter almonds proceeding from them.
3 شَجَرَةٌ البَقِّ [The elmtree]: see دَرْدَارٌ.
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