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عق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَعَقُّ مِنْ ضَبٍّ ذ [ More undutiful, &c., to kindred, than a lizard of the species called ضبّ] is a prov. [mentioned, but not expl., in the O]: IAar says, the female [of the ضبّ] is meant; and its عُقُوق consists in its eating its young ones. (TA.) [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 152-3. And see an ex. of أَعَقُّ in a verse cited in art. زهد, conj. 2.]

Derived headwords

أَعَقُّ مِنْ ضَبٍّ
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