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غَطَاطٌ ذ The [bird called the] قَطَا [i. e. the sandgrouse]: (M, K:) or a species thereof, (S, K,) or, as some say, a species of bird not of the قطا, (TA,) dust-coloured in the backs and the bellies (S, K, TA) and the bodies, (S, TA,) black in the inner sides of the wings, (S, K, TA,) long in the legs and the necks, and slender, not collecting in flocks, two or three at most being found together: (S, TA:) n. un. with ة: (S, K:) it is said that the قطا compose two species: the short in the legs, yellow in the necks, black in the primary feathers of the wings, of a white hue tinged with red (صُهْب) in the tertials, are the كُدْرِيَّة and the جُونِيَّة: and the long in the legs, white in the bellies, dust-coloured in the backs, wide in the eyes are the غطاط: AHát says that in the أَخْدَعَانِ [by which is here meant, as in some other instances, the places of the two veins so called in the neck] of the غَطَاطَة are what resemble two decorations, two lines, black and white; and it is slender, [but] exceeding the مُكَّآء: accord. to Skr, it is a bird resembling the قطا. (TA.) -A2- See also the paragraph here following.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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