عَقُوقٌ

Root: عق

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عَقُوقٌ , applied to a mare, and to an ass, Pregnant: or not pregnant after having been covered by the stallion, or during a year or two years or some years; or it signifies thus also; having two contr. meanings; or it is applied to one in the latter state as implying a presage of good; so says AHát; i. e., as though they meant that she would become pregnant: it is extr.; [as being from أَعَقَّتْ;] and one should not say مُعِقٌّ ; or this is a bad dial. var.; or, accord. to AA, it is from اعقّت, and عَقُوقٌ is from عَقَّتْ: the pl. is عُقُقٌ, and عِقَاقٌ is a pl. pl., i. e. pl. of عُقُقٌ. It is said in a prov., طَلَبَ الأَبْلَقَ العَقُوقَ, meaning He sought an impossible thing; because ابلق is applied to a male, and عقوق means pregnant: (S, O, and K in art. بلق) or الابلق العقوق means the dawn, because it breaks, lit, cleaves. (O, and K in art. بلق.)
2 نَوَى العَقُوقِ means Date-stones that are easily broken, soft to be chewed; which are given as provender to camels, or to the pregnant thereof, in consideration of her state, wherefore they are thus called; and which are eaten, or chewed, by the old woman; but this is of the speech of the people of El Basrah, and not known by the Arabs in their desert: and sometimes they called a single date-stone of this sort عَقِيقَةٌ .

def.2 See also عَاقٌّ.

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