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صَقِعٌ ذ [Smitten by a thunderbolt: (see its verb, صَقِعَ:) or] smitten as by a thunderbolt from the enemy: so accord. to some: (O, TA:) 'Ows Ibn-Hajar says, “ أَبَا دُلَيْجَةَ مَنْ لِحَىٍّ مُفْرَدٍ
صَقِعٍ مِنَ الأَعْدَآءِ فِى شَوَّالِ
” (S, * O, TA, but in the TA أَاَبَا) [which may be rendered O Aboo-Duleyjeh, who is for a solitary tribe, smitten as though by a thunderbolt from the enemies, in Showwál (which was, in the time of the poet, a cold month) ?]: or, accord. to IAar, the meaning here is, in a state of retirement, remote from the enemies; (S, * O;) for when the winter pressed severely upon the man, he used to retire to a distance, lest a guest should alight at his abode; the enemies being the strange guests; and by saying فى شوّال, he means that the cold was in Showwál: (O, TA:) or صَقِعٌ means absent and remote, so that one knows not where he is: or that has gone away, and alighted alone, or by himself: (TA:) [pl. صَقْعَى:] see an ex. voce دَقِعٌ. -A2- أَرْضٌ صَقِعَةٌ, (TA,) and ↓ مَصْقُوعَةٌ , Earth, or ground, overspread with the صَقِيع [i. e. hoarfrost, or rime]: (S, Msb, TA:) and in like manner, شَجَرٌ صَقِعٌ, and ↓ مُصْقَعٌ , trees overspread with the صَقِيع. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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