برق

maṣdar بُرُوقٌ or بَرِيقٌ — or this last is a simple noun — and بَرْقٌ and بَرَقَانٌ; in the CK بُرُوقٌ.

It shone, or gleamed: said of a thing, of a sword and the like, and of the dawn.

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From eating the بَرْوَق.

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See form 1, in eight places.

[This seems to be the meaning: see بَرِقَ.]

See form 1, in two places.

It shone, or gleamed, with lightning: said of a place, and of the horizon.

[Lightning;] what gleams in the clouds, or from the clouds. From بَرَقَ [in the first of the senses explained above], said of a thing, maṣdar [بَرْقٌ and] بَرِيقٌ.

Mujáhid: an angel's smiting the clouds and putting them in motion, so that they are propelled, and you see the fires [issue from them].

Ibn-ʿAbbās: a whip of light with which the angel drives the clouds.

It is the singular of بُرُوقٌ, that is, of the بروق of the clouds; or it has no plural, being originally a maṣdar.

See also the article خلب.

[Lizards of the species called] ضِبَاب, plural of ضَبٌّ.

It seems to be the plural of بَرُوقٌ, or of أَبْرَقُ — more probably, I think, of the former, from the raising of the tail, which is a habit of those lizards.

See also بُرْقَةٌ.

A lamb; synonym حَمَلٌ.

A Persian word, arabicized; originally بَرَهْ.

Plural [of many] بُرْقَانٌ and بِرْقَانٌ, and [of few] أَبْرَاقٌ.

[The ism fāʿil of بَرِقَ, particularly explained as meaning] a skin affected by the heat so that its butter melts and decomposes and does not become compact.

[Apparently an ism waḥda, meaning a flash of lightning.] So in the article وبص.

A fit of confusion, or perplexity, affecting one so that he is unable to see his right course.

A quantity of lightning; plural بُرْقٌ.

[Or this is a collective noun, of which the former is the ism waḥda; or, probably, it is a mistranscription, and] the plural is بُرَقٌ, also pronounced بُرُقٌ.

Rugged ground in which stones, sand and earth are mixed together; its stones mostly white, though some are red and black; its earth white or of a whitish dust-colour; and sometimes meadows lie beside it.

Or: a portion of such land as is termed بَرْقَآءُ, which consists of tracts containing black stones mixed with white sand; when spacious, it is termed أَبْرَقُ.

The plural of بُرْقَةٌ is بُرَقٌ and بِرَاقٌ; that of ابرق is أَبَارِقُ, after the manner of a noun, because the quality of a noun predominates in it; and that of برقآء is بَرْقَاوَاتٌ.

The بُرَق of the country of the Arabs are more than a hundred, and are distinguished by particular adjuncts, such as بُرْقَةٌ الأَثْمَادِ and بُرْقَةُ الأَجَاوِلِ.

[That is, a hedge-hog of a برقة], like as one says ضَبُّ كُدْيَةِ.

A small amount of grease, or gravy, in food.

Shining much in the body; applied to a man.

Locusts when they turn yellow and have variegated stripes or streaks; or locusts variegated with white and black.

[A collective noun;] its ism waḥda is formed with ة.

With damm. [Commonly بَرْقُوق: the plum; or] small إِجَّاص [or plums]; known in Syria by the name of جابزك, and, as some say, the مِشْمِش [or apricot].

A post-classical word [probably arabicized from the Persian بَرْقُوقْ, which is applied to both the fruits mentioned above].

A certain beast which Moḥammad rode on the night of the ascension [to heaven]; or which the apostles ride in ascending to heaven.

It resembles a mule; or it is less than the mule but greater than the ass.

So called because of the intense whiteness of his hue and his great brightness; or because of the quickness of his motion; in respect of both of which he is likened to lightning.

A she-camel raising her tail and feigning herself pregnant when she is not.

Plural of the first, بُرْقٌ; of the second, مَبَارِيقُ.

شولان is in the accusative case as a maṣdar; that is, you are in the category of the she-camel that raises her tail so as to make one imagine her pregnant when she is not.

The plural بُرْقٌ is also applied to scorpions, meaning raising their tails like the she-camel called بروق.

A certain kind of plant which camels do not feed on except in case of necessity; a small, feeble tree which grows green when the sky becomes clouded. Its ism waḥda is formed with ة.

It was described to AHn by an Arab of the desert as follows: a feeble, juicy plant with slender branches, at the heads of which are small envelopes like chick-peas, containing a kind of black grain; it is so feeble that it withers on the spot when the sun becomes hot upon it.

Nothing feeds upon it; but people, when afflicted with dearth or drought, press a bitter juice from it, then work it together, or knead it, with هَبِيد [or colocynths, or the pulp, or seeds, of them], or something else, and eat it; it is not eaten alone, because it causes excitement.

It is one of the plants that are plentiful in time of drought and scarce in time of fruitfulness; when copious rain falls upon it, it dies; and when we see it grown abundant and coarse, or rough, we fear drought.

Accord. to another of the Arabs of the desert, the بَرْوَقَة is a bad kind of herb, or leguminous plant, that grows among the first of the herbs. It has a reed like the سباط [so I render لها قصبة مثل السباط, but I think the right reading is لَهَا قُضُبٌ مِثْلُ السِّيَاطِ: it has twigs like whips, agreeing with the description above, where it is said to have slender branches], and a black fruit, or produce.

Because it grows green when it sees the clouds, or by means of the least moisture falling from the sky: a proverb.

[A maṣdar of بَرَقَ, or, as others say, a simple noun.] A shining, gleaming, or glistening; lustre, brilliancy, or splendour.

ISK: milk upon which a little grease or clarified butter is poured.

Or food in which there is milk; or food with a little clarified butter and grease put into it; or food with a little olive-oil poured upon it; or a condiment in which a little olive-oil or grease is put.

Plural بَرَائِقُ, with which تَبَارِيقُ [plural of تَبْروقٌ] is synonymous, applied to food in which a little olive-oil or clarified butter is put.

Also water with a little olive-oil poured upon it; its plural is تَبَارِيقُ.

Shining, gleaming, or glistening much, or intensely.

See also إِبْرِيقٌ and بَارِقٌ.

A certain plant, also called خُنْثَى [that is, the asphodel, called by both these names at the present day].

Eating its fresh, juicy stalk, boiled with olive-oil and vinegar, counteracts jaundice; and smearing with its root, or lower part, removes the two kinds of بَهَق.

Shining, gleaming, or glistening.

With fet-ḥ to the ب; or بُورَقٌ, with damm.

A certain thing, or substance, that is put into dough and makes it swell; or into flour. See under بُورَكٌ.

[Or this is a particular kind of it, as appears from what follows: accord. to Golius, nitrum and aphronitrum: but] it is of four kinds.

This last is the نَطْرُون [that is, natron].

The best is the ارمنى, and this is said to be what is meant by the term when it is used without qualification.

It is also called بورقُ الصَّاغَةِ [a term now applied to borax, as is بورق alone, and مِلْحُ الصَّاغَةِ], because it polishes silver well [or because of its use in soldering].

The dust-coloured kind is called بورقُ الخَبَّازِينَ [the بورق of the bakers, or makers of bread].

The نطرون is the red kind.

There is also a kind having an oily quality; and a kind consisting of thin butter-like fragments, which, if light and hard, is the إِفْرِيقِى; the best of this is that produced in Egypt.

on this sense Bruised, or powdered, it is smeared on the belly near a fire, and it expels worms.

on this sense Moistened with honey or with oil of jasmine, it is used to anoint the male organs, being excellent for sexual power.

Also a man in whom one does not trust, or confide; plural بَوَارِقُ.

[Or بَوْرَقِىٌّ.] A seller of بُورَق [or بَوْرَق].

A rope having two colours, twisted with a black strand and a white strand; and in the same way a mountain in which are two colours, black and white; and anything having blackness and whiteness together.

أَبْرَقُ and بَرْقَآءُ, applied to sheep or goats, are like أَبْلَقُ and بَلْقَآءُ applied to beasts of the equine kind, and أَبْقَعُ and بَقْعَآءُ applied to dogs.

Also a certain Persian medicine, good for the memory.

A Persian word, arabicized; originally آبْ رِيزْ [written incorrectly in some copies as آب رِي].

[A ewer, such as is used for wine, and also such as is used for water to be poured on the hands; each having a long and slender spout, and a handle;] a well-known vessel: a vessel having a spout and a handle.

Kr: a كُوز; and AHn says the same in one place, but in another he says that it is like a كوز [it is somewhat like a كوز with the addition of a spout].

Plural أَبَارِيقُ [and sometimes أَبَارِقَةٌ].

A sword such as is termed بَرَّاق, that is, a sword that shines, gleams, or glistens much, or intensely; or simply a sword; or, as some say, a bow.

Or it also means a bow in which are تَلَامِيع [or places differing in colour from the rest, and, apparently, glistening]: so, accord. to Az, in a verse of ʿAmr Ibn-Aḥmar; but correctly, accord. to Sgh, it has there the first of the meanings explained here.

It is said also that سَيْفٌ إِبْرِيقٌ means a sword having much lustre, and much diversified with wavy marks or streaks, or in its grain.

Diminutive of إِسْتَبْرَقٌ.

Sometimes with the conjunctive ا.

Thick دِيبَاج [or silk brocade]: or ديباج made [or interwoven] with gold: or closely-woven, thick, beautiful ديباج made [or interwoven] with gold: or closely-woven cloths, or garments, of silk, like ديباج: or thick silk.

Ibn-ʿAbbād: a red thong cut from an untanned skin, as though it were [composed of] pieces of bow-strings, or chords.

It is an arabicized word, from إِسْتَرْوَهٌ, which is Syriac; or from the Persian, in which سِتَبْر and إِسْتَبْر mean “thick” without restriction, so that سِتَبْرَهْ and إِسْتَبْرَهْ are applied particularly to mean “thick ديباج”, and then the latter is arabicized by putting ق for the ه: so says Esh-Shiháb El-Khafájee.

Or the ا and س and ت are augmentative, and it is entered under the present root as though this were the case, agreeing with the form of its diminutive, which is said to be أُبَيْرِقٌ; for in forming the diminutive a word is reduced to its root.

Plural تَبَارِيقُ; see بَرِيقَةٌ, in four places.

[A shining, gleaming, or glistening; or the time of it.]

[That is, he came at the shining of the dawn, or at the time of its shining.]

[مبرق is said here to be a maṣdar mīmī.]

See بَرُوقٌ.