بِنَيقَةٌ
Root: بنق
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بِنَيقَةٌ
The لِبْنَة, or دِخْرِصَة, [both of which signify the gore,] of a shirt, or of a garment; or the دخرصة is longer than the لبنة: and any piece that is added in a garment or a leathern bucket to widen it: or, accord. to IDrd, the دخاريص of a shirt: (TA: [but this is app. a mistranscription for its sing. دِخْرِيص, q. v., a dial. var. of دِخْرِصَة:]) or the جُرُبَّان [or opening at the neck and bosom] of a shirt: جربّان is prefixed to البنيقة in a verse of Jereer, governing the latter in the gen. case, to show that both these words have the same meaning:
بِنَقَةٌ , also, signifies the same as بنيقة; and its pl. [or rather the coll. gen. n.] is
بِنَقٌ : Th mentions بَنَائِقٌ and بِنَقٌ, and says that the latter is a pl. pl. ; [i. e., pl. of the former;] but this is unintelligible: بَنَائِقٌ is pl. of بَنِيقَةٌ, and syn. with دَخَارِيصٌ. AZ cites, from Mejnoon,
which is an inverted phrase; the meaning being,كَمَا ضَمَّ أَزْرَارَ القَمِيصِ البَنَائِقٌ
[Like as the buttons of the shirt draw together the gores: if the last word mean the gores]: or, if the بنيقة of the shirt be really its جربّان, the meaning is intelligible [without inversion]; for its جربّان is the part around the neck, upon which are sewed the buttons; and when one desires to draw it together, he puts its buttons into the loops, and so draws together the bosom [of the shirt, with its buttons,] to the uppermost part of the chest. Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee explains البنائق, here, as meaning the loops into which the buttons are inserted; and accord. to this explanation the meaning is plain, not requiring the supposition of inversion nor of deviation from the usual way: but the first explanation is that which is generally given. In the saying,كَمَا ضَمَّ أَزْرَارُ القَمِيصِ البَنَائِقَا
[in the last word of which, ة is elided; lit., Sometimes I go forth early in the morning, when the time has a بَنِيقَة;] Lth says that the whiteness of the dawn is likened to the whiteness of the بنيقة; citing another verse, in which a shirt is described as having white بنائق.قَدْ أَغْتَدِى وَ الدَّهْرُ ذُو
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