ايك

أَيْكٌ ذ Numerous, luxuriant or tangled or dense, trees: (S, K:) or a place where water collects and sinks into the ground (غَيْضَةٌ) producing [ trees of the kinds called ] سِدْر and أَرَاك (Lth, K) and similar soft trees: (Lth:) or a collection of any trees; even, of palm-trees: (K:) or, as some say, a place where [ trees of the kind called ] أَثْل grow, and where is a collection of them: or, accord. to AHn, an abundant collection of أَرَاك in one place: (TA:) or trees; said to be of the [ kind called ] أَرَاك: (Msb:) n. un. with ة: (S, Msb, K, &c.:) IAar says, [you say,] أَيْكَةٌ أَثْلٍ and رَهْطٌ, and قَصِيمَةٌ. (Sh.) أَصْحَابُ ا@لْأَيْكَةِ occurs in the Kur in four chapters: [xv. 78 and xxvi. 176 and xxxviii. 12 and 1.13:] (Sgh:) he who reads thus means, by the latter word, الغَيْضَة [explained above, and also signifying the thicket, or collection of tangled trees, &c.]; (S, K;) or the tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees: (TA:) another reading is لَيْكَةَ; accord. to which, this is the name of the town [in which the people here mentioned dwelt]: (S, K:) or, as some say, the two words are [applied to the same place,] like بَكَّةُ and مَكَّةُ: (S:) but Zj says that another reading is allowable, and very good; i. e. أَصْحَابُ لَيْكَةِ, as being originally الأيْكَةِ; for the Arabs say, اَلَحْمَرُ قَدْ جَاآءَنِى and لَحْمَرُ جَاآاـَنِى for الأَحْمَرُ; so that لَيْكَة is like لَحْمَر. (TA.)