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خَانِقٌ

Root: خنق

Full Definition

خَانِقٌ One who strangles; as also خَنَّاقٌ : or the latter signifies one whose office it is to strangle.
2 [Hence,] خَانِقُ الذِّئْبِ and خَانِقُ النَّمِرِ and خَانِقُ الكَلْبِ and خَانِقُ الكِرْسَنَّةِ [in the CK الكَرْسَنَّةُ] Four herbs: [the first and second, in the present day, wolfsbane, or aconite: or, as Golius says, referring for the former and latter respectively to Diosc. iv. 78 and 77, the former is the aconitum lycoctonon; and the latter, the aconitum pardalianches: the third, dogsbane, or colchicum; or, as Golius says, referring to Diosc. iv. 81, apocynon: and the fourth, strangle-weed, (because it strangles the كِرْسَنَّة, or bitter vetch,) or broomrape, i. e., as Golius says, referring to Diosc. ii. 172 and Ibn-Beytár, orobanche:] the first is high (مشرف [but perhaps this should be مُشْرِق i. e. shining]) in the leaves, downy, and resembling the دلب [?]: the second is like the tail of the scorpion, glistening, about a span [in height], and has not more than five leaves: each of these is of the [season called] رَبِيع; and they are poisonous; they kill all animals; the ذِئْب and the نَمِر being particularized only because of the quickness of its acting in them: Ibn-Seenà says, in the “ Kánoon, ” the leaves of خانق النمر, when mixed with fat, and kneaded and baked with bread, and given as food to wolves and dogs and foxes and leopards (نمر), kills them: whence it seems that this may be two herbs or one herb.
3 خَانِقٌ signifies also A narrow road or ravine, in a mountain: or a narrow place or pass, between two mountains, and between two tracts of sand. [See also مُخْتَنَقٌ.]
4 And A narrow street; syn. زُقَاقٌ; in the dial. of the people of ElYemen.
5 See also مَخْنُوقٌ, in two places.
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