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دِيكٌ ديك a word of well-known meaning, (S, K,) The domestic cock; i. e. the male of the دَجَاج: (Msb, TA:) pl. (of mult. TA) دِيَكَةٌ and دُيُوكٌ (S, Msb, K) and (of pauc. TA) أَدْيَاكٌ. (K.) Sometimes it is employed as meaning دَجَاجَةٌ, (K,) [which is a n. un., applied to the male and to the female,] and is therefore made [grammatically] fem., (TA,) [though still applying to the male, agreeably with a common license in the case of a masc. noun that has a fem. syn., and vice versa,] as in the saying, “ دَجَاجَةٌوَزَّقَتِ الدَّيكُ بِصَوْتٍ زَقَّا
” [And the cock muted with a sound, with vehement muting]; (K;) because the ديك is also a دَجَاجَة: so says ISd. (TA.) ― -b2- دِيكُ الجِنِّ [The cock of the jinn, or genii;] a certain little creeping thing, or insect, (دُوَيْبَّة,) found in gardens. (Kzw.) And the surname of the poet 'Abd-Es-Selám. (K.) -A2- Solicitously affectionate; compassionate: (K:) or solicitously affectionate; affectionate to off spring; applied to a man, in the dial. of ElYemen: so accord. to El-Muärrij; who says that hence the ديك [or domestic cock] is thus called. (TA.) -A3- (assumed tropical:) The [season called] رَبِيع [here meaning spring]; as though so called because of the various colours of its plants, or herbage, (K, TA,) and thus likened to the ديك [or domestic cock]. (TA.) -A4- One, and all, of the three stones on which the cooking-pot is placed: used alike as sign. and pl. (El-Muärrij, K.) -A5- The protuberant bone behind the ear of the horse: (K:) IKh explains it as meaning a certain bone behind the ear; not particularizing a horse nor any other animal. (IB.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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