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صَقْرٌ ذ [The hawk;] the bird with which one hunts, or catches, game; (S;) whatever preys, or hunts or catches game, of the birds called بُزِاة [pl. of بَازٍ] and شَوَاهِين [pl. of شَاهِين]; (M, A, K;) a kind of bird including the بَازِى and the شَاهِين and the زُرَّق and the يُؤْيُؤ and the بَاشَق: (AHát, TA in art. بشق:) [like our term “ saker, ” and the French “ sacre, ” &c:] pl. [of pauc.] أَصْقُرٌ (M, K) and [of mult.] صُقُورٌ and صُقُورَةٌ (M, A, K) and صِقَارٌ and صِقَارَةٌ and صُقُرٌ; (M, K;) the last of which is said by Th to be pl. of صُقُورٌ, which is pl. of صَقْرٌ, but [ISd says] I hold it to be pl. of صَقْرٌ: the fem. is ↓ صَقْرَةٌ . (M.) ― -b2- [And accord. to Reiske, as mentioned by Freytag, A liberal man: perhaps a noble man, as likened to a hawk.] -A2- Also, (S, K,) and ↓ صَقْرَةٌ , (S, M, K,) Vehemence of the stroke of the sun, (S, M, K,) and fierceness of its heat: (M:) or the vehemence of its stroke upon the head: (M:) pl. [of the latter] صَقَرَاتٌ. (S, A.) -A3- Also the former, Sour milk; (K;) [and] so ↓ صَقْرَةٌ : (A:) or milk rendered sour by a stroke of the sun: (Sh:) or milk sour in the utmost degree: (As:) or very sour milk; as also ↓ صَقْرَةٌ : (S:) or this latter is milk that has curdled, and of which the thick part has become separate, and the whey become clear, and that has become sour, so as to be a good kind of sauce. (L.) One says, تَزْوِى الوَجْهَ ↓ جَآءَنَا بِصَقْرَةٍ [He brought us some sour milk, or very sour milk, &c., such as contracts the face, or makes it to wrinkle: like as one says بِصَرْبَةٍ]. (S, A, L.) ― -b2- Also, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) and ↓ صَقْرَةٌ , (M,) [The exuded, or expressed, juice called] دِبْس; (S, K;) in the dial. of the people of El-Medeeneh: (S:) or the دِبْس of dates; (M;) or of fresh ripe dates, (Mgh, Msb,) before it is cooked; i. e. what flows from them, like honey, and what, when it is cooked, is called رُبّ: (Msb:) or the honey of fresh ripe dates and of raisins; as also ↓ صَقَرٌ : (K:) or the honey of fresh ripe dates when it has become dry, or tough: or what exudes from grapes, and from raisins, and from dates, without their being pressed; (M;) as also ↓ صَقَرٌ : (TA:) or, in the dial. of the Bahránees, [or people of El-Bahreyn,] the crude دِبْس, resembling honey, which flows from baskets of dates when they [i. e. the dates] are deposited and congested, in an uncovered chamber, [so I render بَيْت مُصَرَّح, but the meaning of the epithet is not clear,] with green earthen pots beneath them. (AM, TA.) ― -b3- And the former, (صَقْرٌ,) (assumed tropical:) Water that has become altered for the worse in taste and colour. (K, O, TA. [See also مُصَقَّرٌ and صَقَرَةٌ.]) -A4- صَقْرْ also signifies A دَائِرَة [or feather, i. e. portion of the hair naturally curled or frizzled in a spiral manner or otherwise,] behind the place of the liver (AO, K, TA) of a horse or similar beast, (K, TA,) on the right and on the left, (TA,) or in the back of a horse: (AO, TA:) there are two such feathers, (AO, K, TA,) which are the limit of the back. (AO, TA.) -A5- Also, [probably as an inf. n., of which the verb is صَقَرَ,] The acting the part, or performing the office, of a pimp to [men's] wives, or women under covert. (IAar, M, O, K. [In the CK, الحَرَمِ is erroneously put for الحُرَمِ.]) Hence the epithet صَقَّار, [as some explain it,] occurring in a trad. [which see below]. (TA.) ― -b2- And A cursing of such as is not deserving [thereof]: pl. صُقُورٌ and صِقَارٌ. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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