كُدْرِىٌّ
Root: كدر
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كُدْرِىٌّ
and
كُدَارِىٌّ A species of the kind of bird called
قَطًا, one of three species, whereof the two others are called
جُونِىٌّ
and
غَطَاطٌ; the species called كدرى are of a dusty [or dusky] colour, short in the legs, diversified, or speckled, or marked, with duskiness, or dinginess, and blackness, (رُقْش,) in the backs and bellies, black in the inside of the wing, yellow in the throats, having in the tail two feathers [in the L and TA ريشان, but the right reading is رِيشَتَانِ,] longer than the rest of the tail; it is smaller than the
جونى, and has a clear cry, calling out its own name [قَطَا قَطَا]: it seems to be thus named, كدرى, in relation to the greater number of birds of the kind called قَطًا, which are كُدْر [in colour]; كدرى being, as some assert, a rel. n. from طَيْرٌ كُدْرٌ, like دُبْسِىٌّ from طَيْرٌ دُبْسٌ: the n. un. is كُدْرِيَّةٌ and كُدَارِيَّةٌ. [See also غَطَاطٌ, and قَطًا; and De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, 2nd ed., ii. 369.]
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