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بُقْعَانُ الشَّأْمِ ذ , (S, K,) with damm, (K,) mentioned in a trad., (S,) (assumed tropical:) The servants and slaves of Syria; because of their whiteness and redness, (S, K,) or blackness; (S;) or because of their whiteness and redness and blackness likened to a thing such as is termed أَبْقَعُ; (TA;) or (K) because they are of the Greeks and the Negroes: (S, K:) or so called because of the mixture of their colours; their predominant colours being white and yellow: A'Obeyd says that what is meant is whiteness and yellowness, and they are thus called because of their difference of colours and their being begotten of two races: but Kt says, البُقْعَانُ signifies (assumed tropical:) those in whom is blackness and whiteness; and one who is white without any admixture of blackness is not called ابقع: how then should the Greeks be called بقعان when they are purely white? and he adds that he thinks the meaning to be, the offspring of Arabs, who are black, [which is not to be understood literally, but rather in the sense of swarthy,] by female slaves of the Greeks, who are white. (TA.) ― -b2- بُقْعٌ is also applied to Waterers (سُقَاةٌ); because their bodies become sprinkled with the water, so that some parts thereof are wetted. (K.) ― -b3- رَأَيْتُ قَوْمًا بُقْعًا (tropical:) I saw a people wearing patched garments; said by El-Hajjáj; (K, TA;) and thus explained by him; i. e., by reason of their evil condition. (TA.) ― -b4- ذَوْدٌ بُقْعُ الذُّرَى A herd of camels having white humps. (TA.) ― -b5- الأَبْقَعُ The mirage; because of its varying, or assuming different hues. (TA.) ― -b6- أَرْضٌ بَقْعَآءُ Land containing [or diversified with] small pebbles. (TA.) ― -b7- سَنَةٌ بَقْعَآءُ (tropical:) A barren, or an unfruitful, year: (S, K:) or a year in which is fruitfulness and barrenness. (S, Msb, K.) And عَامٌ أَبْقَعُ (tropical:) A year in which the rain falls in places of the land, not universally. (TA.) And ↓ عَامٌ أُبَيْقِعُ , (K,) the dim. form being used to denote terribleness, (TA,) (tropical:) A year of little rain. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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