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بُسْرٌ حُلْقَانُ بسر حلقان (assumed tropical:) Ripening dates that have become ripe as far as the حَلْق; which is said by some to be near the base: (TA:) or that have begun to be ripe (K in art. حلقن) next the base; (TA in that art.;) and so ↓ رُطَبٌ مُحَلْقِمٌ ; and a single date in that state is termed ↓ رُطَبَةٌ حُلْقَامَةٌ : (K in art. حلقم:) or ripening dates that have become ripe to the extent of two thirds; as also ↓ مُحَلْقِنٌ , (S, K,) and ↓ مُحَلِّقٌ , (K, TA,) like مُحَدِّثٌ: (TA:) [in the CK مُحَلَّق, like مُعَظَّم:]) and the last signifies, (K,) accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, (TA,) dates partly ripe (K, TA) and partly unripe: (TA:) n. un. with ة: (S, K:) such dates are also termed ↓ حَوَالِيقُ , held by ISd to be a kind of rel. n., [as though pl. of حَالِقَةٌ,] though the reason of the insertion of the ى in this word, he says, was unknown to him: (TA:) and ↓ رُطَبٌ حُلْقَانِىٌّ : (TA from a trad.:) the pl. of مُحَلِّقٌ is مَحَالِيقُ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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