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بنعك

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of slowness, weakness, and a specific type of date. It describes an aged, slow female camel and a variety of date characterized by its softness or perhaps a specific quality.

Derived headwords

البَلْعَكُnoun
  1. 1.
    slow, aged female camelclassical

    A female camel that is slow and advanced in age.

البَلْعَقُnoun
  1. 1.
    type of dateclassical

    A specific variety of date, often described as soft or of a particular quality.

Parallel reading

البلعك من النوق: المسترخية المسنة.
The 'bal'ak' of female camels: the slack and aged one.
والبلعك لغة في البلعق، وهو ضرب من التمر.
And 'al-bal'ak' is a dialectal variant for 'al-balaq', which is a type of date.