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أَدْقَعُ ذ Vehement hunger; (ISh, K;) as also ↓ دَيْقُوعٌ . (S, K.) ― -b2- ذُرَةٌ دَقْعَآءُ [fem. of أَدْقَعُ] Bad [millet]: (IDrd, K:) of the dial. of El-Yemen. (IDrd.) ― -b3- أَرْضٌ دَقْعَآءُ Land having in it no plants, or herbage. (K.) ― -b4- ↓ الدَّقْعَآءُ , [used as a subst.,] (Lh, S, Msb, K,) and ↓ الدِّقْعِمُ , (Lh, S, K,) in which the م is augmentative, as it is in دِرْدِمٌ syn. with دَرْدَآءُ, (S,) and الأَدْقَعُ, and ↓ الدَّقَاعُ , and ↓ الدَّقَاعُ , (Lh, K,) The dust, or earth: (Lh, S, Msb, K:) or the fine dust or earth upon the face of the ground. (TA.) One says, in imprecating, بِفِيهِ الدَّقَعَآءُ, and الدِّقْعِمُ, and الأَدْقَعُ, May the dust, or earth, be in his mouth. (Lh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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