عُكَّةٌ
Root: عك
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عُكَّةٌ
: see عَكَّةٌ.
2 Also A sand heated by the sun; and so عَكَّةٌ : pl. of the former عِكَاكٌ.
3 And The access of a fever, on the occasion of the first tremour, or shivering, thereof; as also عَكَّةٌ .
4 And العُكَّةُ, or عُكَّةُ العِشَارِ, A colour that overspreads she-camels when they have conceived. like the كَلَف of the woman.
def.2 And The receptacles, or [correctly] one of the receptacles, for clarified butter, smaller than the قِرْبَة; said by ISk to be like the شَكْوَة, [i. e. it is a skin of a sucking kid, (see شَكْوَةٌ, and وَطْبٌ,)] in which clarified butter is put: or, accord. to IAth, a round receptacle of skins, for clarified butter and honey, but more particularly for clarified butter: pl. عَكَكٌ and عِكَاكٌ. One says of a woman, سَمِنَتْ حَتَّى صَارَتْ كَٱلْعُكَّةِ [She became fat so that she was like the skin of clarified butter].
2 Also A sand heated by the sun; and so عَكَّةٌ : pl. of the former عِكَاكٌ.
3 And The access of a fever, on the occasion of the first tremour, or shivering, thereof; as also عَكَّةٌ .
4 And العُكَّةُ, or عُكَّةُ العِشَارِ, A colour that overspreads she-camels when they have conceived. like the كَلَف of the woman.
def.2 And The receptacles, or [correctly] one of the receptacles, for clarified butter, smaller than the قِرْبَة; said by ISk to be like the شَكْوَة, [i. e. it is a skin of a sucking kid, (see شَكْوَةٌ, and وَطْبٌ,)] in which clarified butter is put: or, accord. to IAth, a round receptacle of skins, for clarified butter and honey, but more particularly for clarified butter: pl. عَكَكٌ and عِكَاكٌ. One says of a woman, سَمِنَتْ حَتَّى صَارَتْ كَٱلْعُكَّةِ [She became fat so that she was like the skin of clarified butter].
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