هد

هُدْهُدٌ ذ A certain bird, (S, L, Msb, K,) well known; (L, Msb, K;) [namely, the hoopee, or upupa of Linnæus; so this bird is called in the present day; and this, accord. to a common tradition, is the bird mentioned in the Kur, xxvii. 20;] as also هُدَهِدٌ (K) and ↓ هُدَاهِدٌ: (S, L, K:) or the last, a certain bird resembling the pigeon: (Lth, Az, L:) or (in the K, and) هُدْهُدٌ signifies a pigeon that cooes much; (IDrd in explanation of v. 20 of ch. xxvii. of the Kur., and AHn, L K;) as also ↓ هُدَاهِدٌ: (IDrd, AHn, L:) and any bird that cooes; that utters the cry called قَرْقَرَة; (L, K, TA [in the CK, يُفَرْفِرُ is put for يُقَرْقِرُ]) as also ↓ هُدَاهِدٌ: (As, L:) pl. (of all, K) هَدَاهِدُ (S, L, K) and هَدَاهِيدُ: (Kr, L, K:) but ISd says of the latter, I know not how this is, unless the sing. be هَدْهَادٌ. (L.) Er-Rá'ee says, كَهُدَاهِدٍ كَسَرَ الرُّمَاةُ جَنَاحَهُ [ Like a هداهد whose wing the shooters have broken ]: (S, L:) As says, he means the فَاخِتَة, or the دُبْسِىّ, or the وَرَشَان, or the هُدْهُد, or a man, or camels: and Lh says, that Ks asserts him to mean, by هداهد, the dim. of هُدْهُدٌ: but As disapproves of this; and so does ISd; but the latter adds, that it may perhaps be for هُدَيْهِدٌ; as some of the Arabs say دُوَابَّةٌ and شُوَابَّةٌ for دُويْبَّةٌ and شُوَيْبَّةٌ; though they are only known to change the ى into ا before a double consonant. (L.)