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ذُكَآءُ ذ , imperfectly decl., The sun: (S, K:) determinate, and not admitting the article ال: you say, هٰذِهِ ذُكَآءُ طَالِعَةٌ [This is the sun rising]: (S:) derived from ذَكَتِ النَّارُ. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (S,) اِبْنُ ذُكَآءَ The dawn, or daybreak: (S, K:) because it is from the light of the sun. (S.) Homeyd says, [or, accord. to some, Besheer Ibn-En-Nikth, as in one of my copies of the S, in art. كفر,] “ فَوَرَدَتْ قَبْلَ ا@نْبِلَاجِ الفَجْرِ
وَا@بْنُ ذُكَآءَ كَامِنٌ فِى الكَفْرِ
” [And she, or they, came to the water before the bright shining of the daybreak, while the dawn lay kid in the darkness of night]. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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