بقع

أَبْقَعُ ذ , applied to a غُرَاب [or bird of the crowkind], In which is blackness and whiteness; (S, TA;) and so applied to a dog: (Lh, TA voce أَبْرَقُ, q. v.:) or, applied to the former, having whiteness in the breast; and this is the worst [or most ill-omened] of the crow-kind: (TA:) [it is this species, accord. to some, which is called غُرَابُ البَيْنِ: (see art. بين:)] or, applied to a غراب &c., party-coloured, or pied: (Msb:) or the whitewinged غراب: (ISh, TA in art. حذف:) pl., when thus applied, بُقْعَانٌ, (TA,) or بِقْعَانٌ, with kesr; the quality of a subst. being predominant in it; but when it is regarded as an epithet, [in which case the fem. is بَقْعَاآءُ,] its pl. is بُقْعٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- Hence, as being likened to such a bird, (tropical:) Anything bad, evil, wicked, mischievous, [ ill-omened, ] or the like. (TA.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) Leprous. (IAar, K.) ― -b4-