عَاتِكٌ
Root: عتك
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عَاتِكٌ
, or عَاتِكَةٌ, or both, applied to a bow (قَوْس), Red in its wood by reason of oldness: as also عَاتِقٌ (K in art. عتق) and عَاتِقَةٌ: [or] عَاتِكَةٌ, so applied, signifies of a pure, or clear, yellow colour. أَحْمَرُ عَاتِكٌ signifies Intensely red. And عَاتِكٌ, alone, Yellow. (TA. [App. applied therein, in this sense, to a vein or a root (عرق, thus without any vowel-sign)].) And Pure, or unmixed; applied to a colour of any kind, and to a thing of any kind. And Clear; applied to [the beverage called] نَبِيذ: or, so applied, old; accord. to Lth with ن, but correctly with ت. (TA in art. عنك.) And i. q.
كَرِيمٌ [as meaning Highly esteemed, or excellent, or the like]; applied to anything.
2 عَاتِكَةٌ applied to a woman means Being, or becoming, red (مُحْمَرَّة [in the CK مُخَمَّرَة]) by reason of perfume; from عَتَكَتِ القَوْسُ [expl. above]: or having a stain of perfume: or being, or becoming, yellow from saffron: or having clearness and redness: or, accord. to Ibn-Saad, lean, or light of flesh; slender and lean; or lean, and lank in the belly: or high, or exalted, in rank, condition, or estimation; high-born, or noble: or, accord. to IAar, from عَتَكَتْ عَلَى بَعْلِهَا, [said of a woman,] meaning نَشَزَتْ; but this is said by Th to be correctly عَنَكَت, the ت being a mistranscription.
2 عَاتِكَةٌ applied to a woman means Being, or becoming, red (مُحْمَرَّة [in the CK مُخَمَّرَة]) by reason of perfume; from عَتَكَتِ القَوْسُ [expl. above]: or having a stain of perfume: or being, or becoming, yellow from saffron: or having clearness and redness: or, accord. to Ibn-Saad, lean, or light of flesh; slender and lean; or lean, and lank in the belly: or high, or exalted, in rank, condition, or estimation; high-born, or noble: or, accord. to IAar, from عَتَكَتْ عَلَى بَعْلِهَا, [said of a woman,] meaning نَشَزَتْ; but this is said by Th to be correctly عَنَكَت, the ت being a mistranscription.
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