Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُعْنِقٌ

Root: عنق

Full Definition

مُعْنِقٌ ; and its fem., with ة: see أَعْنَقُ, first sentence.
2 Also, the former, Hard and elevated land or ground, having around it such as is plain, or soft, extending about a mile, and less: pl. مَعَانِيقُ: and they have imagined it to be termed مِعْنَاقٌ , [partly on account of this pl., and partly] because of the many instances like مُتْئِمٌ and مِتْآمٌ, and مُذْكِرٌ and مِذْكَارٌ.
3 And مَرْبَأَةٌ مُعْنِقَةٌ A lofty place of observation.
4 See also مِعْنَاقٌ, in three places.
5 مُعْنِقٌ also occurs in a trad., applied as an epithet to a believer, meaning One who hastens in his obedience, and takes a wide range in his work.
6 And مُعْنِقَاتٌ, as applied by Dhu-r-Rummeh to [portions of sand such as are termed] أَدْعَاص [pl. of دِعْصٌ] means Lying in advance of others.
7 See also the next paragraph.


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