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شَقَذَانٌ ذ One who scarcely ever, or never, sleeps; (S, M, L, K;) as also ↓ شَقِذٌ ; (S, M, K;) and who has a malignant eye, (S, M,) affecting, or hurting, others therewith; as also ↓ شَقِذٌ (S, M, K, in the TA شَقْذٌ,) and ↓ شَقِيذٌ : (M:) or who has a strong, or powerful, eye, quickly affecting or hurting [others therewith]; (M, L, K;) as also ↓ شَقِذٌ and ↓ شَقِيذٌ : (M:) and العَيْنِ ↓ شَقِذُ one who scarcely ever, or never, sleeps; whom drowsiness does not overcome. (T, L.) ― -b2- Also Driven away, and remote; and so ↓ شَقِذٌ . (L.) ― -b3- And شَقَذَانَةٌ A light-spirited woman: (Th, M, L:) foul, or obscene, in her speech; clamorous, and foul-tongued. (T, L.) -A2- Also The male chameleon; (M, L, K;) and so ↓ شَقِذٌ and ↓ شِقْذٌ and ↓ شُقْذٌ : or all these words signify a slender and compact male chameleon, with a small head, that cleaves to the trunk of the kind of tree called عِضَاه: (M, L:) pl. شِقْذَانٌ (M, L, K) and شَقَاذَى: (M:) the former pl. like كِرْوَانٌ, pl. of كَرَوَانٌ; (L;) and also used as a sing., meaning a male chameleon; (Th, M;) thus used by a poetess; (M:) also ↓ شِقْذٌ (S, M, L, K) and ↓ شُقْذٌ (M, L) and ↓ شُقَذٌ (M, L, K) and ↓ شَقْذٌ (K) the young one of a chameleon: (Lh, S, M, L, K:) pl. شِقْذَانٌ (S, M, L, K) and شَقَاذَى: (M, L, K:) the former pl. like صِنْوَانٌ, pl. of صِنْوٌ. (S.) A poet says, describing asses, “ رَأَتِ الشَّقَاذَى تَصْطَلِى
فَرَعَتْ بِهَا حَتَّى إِِذَا
” And they pastured therein until the heat became vehement and they saw the male chameleons thirsty, desiring to go to water, and repairing to the sun: some say, that شقاذى here signifies moths, (فَرَاش), but this is a mistake. (M, L.) شِقْذَانٌ also signifies The animals called ضَبّ and وَرَل and طُحَن and سَامُّ أَبْرَص and دَسَّاسَة: and the sing. is ↓ شِقْذَةٌ : (M, L:) or any small animals that creep or walk upon the earth, and venomous or noxious reptiles and the like: (M, L, K:) sing. ↓ شَقِذَةٌ (M, L) and ↓ شِقَذٌ , (M,) or ↓ شَقِذٌ , (L,) and ↓ شُقَذٌ , (M,) or ↓ شَقَذٌ ; (L;) but it does not appear how ↓ شَقِذَةٌ can be a sing. of شِقْذَانٌ unless the augmentative letter be regarded as elided. (M, L.) ― -b2- Also The wolf; (M, L, K;) and so ↓ شَقْذَانٌ (Th, M, L, K) and ↓ شُقْذٌ , (M, L,) or ↓ شِقْذٌ , (K,) or ↓ شَقْذٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- Also The hawk; syn. صَقْرٌ; (M, L;) and so ↓ شَقْذَانٌ (Th, M, L) and ↓ شُقْذٌ , (M, L,) or ↓ شَقْذٌ . (TA.) ― -b4- And شِقْذَانٌ [the pl.] also signifies The young ones of the kinds of birds called حبَارَى and قَطًا (M, L, K) and the like. (M, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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