حَالِقٌ

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حَالِقٌ [Shaving: and] a shaver; and a shearer of goats: pl. حَلَقَةٌ: and حَلَّاقٌ is syn. with حَالِقٌ; [or has an intensive signification, or denotes frequency of the action.] The saying لَا تَفْعَلْ ذَاكَ أُمُّكَ حَالِقٌ means [Do not thou that:] may God cause thy mother to be bereft of her child so that she shall shave off her hair. And حَالِقَةٌ occurs in a trad. as an epithet applied to a woman cursed by Mohammad; meaning One who shaves off her hair in the case of an affliction: or who shares her face for the sake of embellishment. It is also applied to a wound on the head (شَجَّةٌ) That scrapes off the skin from the flesh. (TA in art. دمغ.)
2 Sharp; applied to a knife: and so حَالُوقَةٌ ; applied to a sword; and also to a man. [Hence, perhaps,] فُلَانٌ حَالِقٌ إِلَىَّ بِعَيْنِهِ Such a one is looking at me intently, or sharply; as also مُحَلِّقٌ . (T, TA in art. زنر.)
3 Quick, or swift; and light, active, or agile.
4 Lean, or light of flesh; slender, and lean; or lean, and lank in the belly.
5 Accord. to A'Obeyd and the K, it means An udder: and accord. to the K, it means also full: but it is an epithet applied to an udder; and thus applied, it has this latter meaning, i. e. full; so ISd thinks; as though the milk in it reached to its حَلْق: or big, so that it rubs off the hair of the thighs by reason of its bigness: and it has also the contr. meaning; raised towards the belly, and contracted, so that its milk has become scanty, or has gone away: pl. حُلَّقٌ and حَوَالِقُ and حَلَقَةٌ. (TA. [The last is mentioned as pl. of حالق in the latter sense.]) Accord. to As, أَصْبَحَتْ ضَرَّةُ النَّاقَةِ حَالِقًا means The she-camel's udder became nearly full. And one says نَاقَةٌ حَالقٌ meaning A she-camel having much milk: or having great abundance of milk, and a large udder: and إبِلٌ camels having much milk: and the pl. of حالق is حَوَالِقُ and حُلَّقٌ.
6 A high mountain, rising above what surrounds it, and without vegetable produce: or, as some say, a mountain having no vegetable produce; as though it were shaven, or shorn; of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: but Z says that it is from حَلَّقَ, said of a bird: and a high, or an overtopping or overlooking, place. One says also, هَوَى مِنْ حَالِقٍ, meaning He fell from a high to a low place. And its pl. حُلُقٌ signifies The vacant spaces between heaven and earth.

def.2 Unlucky to a people; as though peeling them; and so حَالِقَةٌ , accord. to the copies of the K; but correctly حَالُوقَةٌ , as in the O and Tekmileh.

def.3 A tendril, or twining portion, of a grape-vine, and of a colocynth and the like, hanging to the shoots: because it has a circular form, like a حَلْقَة [or ring].

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