حلق

حَالِقٌ حالق [ Shaving: and] a shaver; (S, TA;) and a shearer of goats: (T, TA:) pl. حَلَقَةٌ: (T, S, K:) and ↓ حَلَّاقٌ is syn. with حَالِقٌ; (TA;) [or has an intensive signification, or denotes frequency of the action.] The saying لَا تَفْعَلْ ذَاكَ أُمُّكَ حَالِقٌ means [ Do not thou that: ] may God cause thy mother to be bereft of her child so that she shall shave off her hair. (S.) And حَالِقَةٌ occurs in a trad. as an epithet applied to a woman cursed by Mohammad; (TA;) meaning One who shaves off her hair in the case of an affliction: (K, TA:) or who shares her face for the sake of embellishment. (TA.) It is also applied to a wound on the head (شَجَّةٌ) That scrapes off the skin from the flesh. (TA in art. دمغ.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Sharp; applied to a knife: (TA:) and so ↓ حَالُوقَةٌ; applied to a sword; and also to a man. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) [Hence, perhaps,] فُلَانٌ حَالِقٌ اـِلَىَّ بِعَيْنِهِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is looking at me intently, or sharply; as also ↓ مُحَلِّقٌ. (T, TA in art. زنر.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Quick, or swift; and light, active, or agile. (TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) Lean, or light of flesh; slender, and lean; or lean, and lank in the belly. (TA.) ― -b5- Accord. to A'Obeyd and the K, it means An udder: and accord. to the K, it means also full: (TA:) but it is an epithet applied to an udder; and thus applied, it has this latter meaning, i. e. (tropical:) full; (T, S, TA;) so ISd thinks; (TA;) as though the milk in it reached to its حَلْق: (S, TA:) or big, so that it rubs off the hair of the thighs by reason of its bigness: (TA:) and it has also the contr. meaning; (T, TA;) raised (IAar, T, Kr, ISd, TA) towards the belly, (Kr, ISd, TA,) and contracted, (T, Kr, ISd, TA,) so that its milk has become scanty, (IAar, T, TA,) or has gone away: (Kr, ISd, TA:) pl. حُلَّقٌ and حَوَالِقُ (S, TA) and حَلَقَةٌ. (TA. [The last is mentioned as pl. of حالق in the latter sense.]) Accord. to As, أَصْبَحَتْ ضَرَّةُ النَّاقَةِ حَالِقًا means (assumed tropical:) The she-camel's udder became nearly full. (TA.) And one says نَاقَةٌ حَالقٌ meaning A she-camel having much milk: (TA:) or having great abundance of milk, and a large udder: and ↓ اـبِلٌ مُحَلِّقَةٌ camels having much milk: (En-Nadr, TA:) and the pl. of حالق is حَوَالِقُ and حُلَّقٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- (tropical:) A high mountain, (S, K, TA,) rising above what surrounds it, and without vegetable produce: or, as some say, a mountain having no vegetable produce; as though it were shaven, or shorn; of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: but Z says that it is from حَلَّقَ, said of a bird: (TA:) and a high, or an overtopping or overlooking, place. (S.) One says also, هَوَى مِنْ حَالِقٍ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He fell from a high to a low place. (Har p. 37.) And its pl. حُلُقٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) The vacant spaces between heaven and earth. (TA.) -A2- (tropical:) Unlucky (K, TA) to a people; as though peeling them; and so ↓ حَالِقَةٌ, accord. to the copies of the K; but correctly ↓ حَالُوقَةٌ, as in the O and Tekmileh. (TA.) -A3- A tendril, or twining portion, of a grape-vine, (S, K, TA,) and of a colocynth and the like, (TA,) hanging to the shoots: (S, K, TA:) because it has a circular form, like a حَلْقَة [or ring]. (T, TA.)