baluster, post, spike

, (S, Mgh, K,) aor. , (S, Mgh,) inf. n. بُرُوقٌ, (S,) or بَرِيقٌ, (Mgh, K,) or this is a simple subst., (S,) and بَرْقٌ and بَرَقَانٌ (K, TA, but in the CK بُرُوقٌ, as in the S,) It (a thing, Mgh, K, a sword, &c., S and the dawn, K, TA) shone, gleamed, or glistened. (S, Mgh, K, TA.) ― -b2- Also said of a cloud, aor. as above, inf. n. بَرِيقٌ and بَرْقً and بَرَقَانٌ, It gleamed or shone [with lightning]; and so ↓ ابرق, (JK,) and ↓ تبرّق. (K in art. حلج.) And بَرَقَتِ السَّمَآءُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. as above, (Msb, TA,) inf. n. بَرَقَانٌ (As, S, Msb, K) and بَرْقٌ (Msb, TA) and بُرُوقٌ, (K,) The sky lightened; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ ابرقت: (AO, AA, K:) or gleamed or shone [with lightning]: (S, K:) or lightened much before rain; as also ↓ ابرقت. (TA in art. رعد.) And بَرَقَ البَرْقُ The lightning appeared. (K.) ― -b3- And [hence] said of a man, (JK, Msb, K,) or رَعَدَ وَبَرَقَ, (S,) (tropical:) He threatened; (JK, S, K;) or he threatened with evil; (Msb;) [or he threatened and menaced;] or he frightened (S and K in art. رعد) and threatened; (S in that art.;) and ↓ ابرق signifies the same; (JK, Msb, K;) and so أَرْعَدَ وَ أَبْرَقَ: (K:) or, accord. to As, ارعد and ابرق are not allowable. (TA, and S in art. رعد, q. v.) But بَرَقَتْ, inf. n. بَرْقٌ, said of a woman, (K,) or رَعَدَتْ وَ بَرَقَتْ, (S,) means (tropical:) She beautified (S and A in art. رعد, and K) and adorned herself, (S, K,) [as also ↓ تبرّقت, (occurring in the K in art. الق, coupled with its syn. تَزَيَّنَت,)] and showed, or presented, herself, (A in art. رعد, and TA,) لِى to me: (A in art. رعد:) or she exhibited her beauty intentionally: (TA:) and ↓ برّقت means the same, (Lh, K,) inf. n. تَبْرِيقٌ; (TA;) and so ↓ ابرقت: (K:) you say, بِوَجْهِهَا وَسَايأِرِ جِسْمِهَا ↓ ابرقت (tropical:) She beautified herself in her face and the rest of her person: (Lh, TA:) and عَنْ وَجْهِهَا ↓ ابرقت (tropical:) She showed her face. (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b4- Also, said of a star, or an asterism, It rose. (Lh, K.) One says, لَا أَفْعَلُهُ مَا بَرَقَ النَّجْمُ فِى السَّمَآءِ I will not do it as long as the star, or asterism, [by which may be meant the asterism of the Pleiades,] rises in the sky. (Lh, TA.) ― -b5- بَرَقَ البَصَرُ, (S,) or بَصَرُهُ, (K,) The eye or eyes, or his eye or eyes, glistened, (S, K,) being raised, or fixedly open: (S:) or became raised, or fixedly open: occurring in the Kur [lxxv. 7], accord. to one reading: (Fr, TA:) or the eye, or his eye, became open by reason of fright. (TA.) بَرِقَ has a different meaning, which see below. (S.) ― -b6- بَرَقَتْ, said of a she-camel, She put her tail between her thighs, making it to cleave to her belly, without being pregnant: (IAar, TA:) or she raised her tail, and feigned herself pregnant, not being so; as also ↓ ابرقت, (Lh, S, K,) and ابرقت بِذَنبِهَا: (TA:) or ابرقت signifies she smote with her tail at one time upon her vulva and another time upon her buttocks; and also, she feigned herself pregnant, not being so. (JK.) ― -b7- بَرِقَ He feared, so that he was astonished or amazed or stupified, at seeing the gleam of lightning: (TA voce بَحِرَ:) or his (a man's) sight became confused in consequence of his looking at lightning. (Bd in lxxv. 7.) And hence, (Bd ibid.,) بَرِقَ البَصَرُ, (S, Bd,) or بَصَرُهُ, (K,) aor. ; (S, K;) and بَرَقَ, aor. ; (K;) or the latter has [only] a meaning explained above; (S;) inf. n. بَرَقٌ, which is of the former verb; (S;) accord. to the K, بَرْقٌ; but this is wrong; (TA;) and [of the latter verb,] بُرُوقٌ; (Lh, K;) The eye or eyes, or his eye or eyes, became dazzled, so as not to close, or move, the lid, or lids: (S, K:) or became confused, so as not to see. (K.) بَرِقَ بَصَرُهُ signifies also His eye or eyes, or his sight, became weak: whence بَرِقَتْ قَدَمَاهُ His two feet became weak. (TA.) Also بَرِقَ alone, (TA,) inf. n. بَرَقٌ, (Fr, K, TA,) He (a man, TA) was frightened; or he feared, or was afraid: (Fr, K, TA:) and he became confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course. (K.) ― -b8- بَرِقَ said of a skin, aor. , (JK, K,) inf. n. بَرَقٌ, (JK,) so in the O, in which, as in the K, the part. n., being بَرِقٌ, indicates that the verb is like فَرِحَ; (TA;) and بَرَقَ, (K,) so in the L, (TA,) aor. , (K,) inf. n. بَرْقٌ and بُرُوقٌ; thus in the L, which indicates that the verb is like نَصَرَ; (TA;) It became affected by the heat so that its butter melted and became decomposed, (As, JK, K,) and did not become compact. (K.) -A2- بَرَقَ طَعَامًا, (JK,) or بَرَقَهُ بِزَيْتٍ أَوْ سَمْنٍ (S, K,) aor. , (JK,) inf. n. بَرْقٌ (JK, S) and بُرُوقٌ, (L,) He poured upon the food, (JK,) or put into it, (S, * K,) somewhat, (JK,) or a small quantity, (S, K,) of olive-oil (JK, S, K) or of clarified butter. (S, K.) And بَرَقْتُ لَهُ I made his food [somewhat] greasy for him with clarified butter. (TA.) And أُبْرُقُوا المَآءِ بِزَيْتٍ Pour ye upon the water a little olive-oil. (S.) -A3- بَرِقَتِ الغَنَمُ, aor. , (S, K,) inf. n. بَرَقٌ, (S,) The sheep, or goats, had a complaint in their bellies from eating the بَرْوَق: (S, K:) and in like manner, الإِبِلُ the camels. (TA.)

, (JK,) or برّق بَصَرَهُ, (TA,) He glistened with his eyes by reason of looking hard, or intently. (JK, TA. *) And برّق عَيْنَيْهِ, inf. n. تَبْرِيقٌ, He opened his eyes wide, and looked sharply, or intently. (Lth, S, K.) ― -b2- برّقت, said of a woman: see 1. ― -b3- And برّق He decorated, or adorned, his place of abode. (El-Muärrij, K.) ― -b4- بَرَّقْتَ وَ عَرَّقْتَ Thou madest a sign with a thing, that had nothing to verify it, [app. meaning thou madest a false display, or a vain promise,] and didst little (IAar.) ― -b5- Also برّق, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He (a man) journeyed far. (El-Muärrij K.) ― -b6- برّق فِى المَعَاصِى He persisted, or persevered, in acts of disobedience. (El-Muärrij, K.) ― -b7- برّق بِىَ الأَمْرُ The affair was unattainable, or impracticable, to me. (K.)

see 1, in eight places. ― -b2- ابرق, (Aboo-Nasr, S, K,) or ابرق بِسَيْفِهِ, (JK,) said of a man, (Aboo-Nasr, JK, S,) He made a sign with his sword [by waving it about so as to make it glisten]. (Aboo-Nasr, JK, S, K.) ― -b3- And ابرق He betook himself, or directed his course, towards the lightning. (TA.) ― -b4- He entered into [a tract wherein was] lightning. (TA.) ― -b5- He saw lightning. (TA.) Tufeyl uses the phrase أَبْرَقْنَ الخَرِيفَ as meaning They (women borne in vehicles upon camels) saw the lightning of [the season, or the rain, called] the خريف. (AAF, TA.) ― -b6- He was smitten, or assailed, or affected, by lightning. (S, K.) -A2- ابرقهُ الفَزَعُ [app. Fright, or fear, made him to be confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right way: see بَرِقَ]. (TA.) ― -b2- [And hence, perhaps,] ابرق الصَّيْدَ He roused the game, or chase. (K.)

see 1, in two places.

It (a place, and the horizon,) shone, or gleamed, with lightning. (TA.)

[Lightning;] what gleams in the clouds, (TA,) or, from the clouds; from بَرَقَ [in the first of the senses explained above], said of a thing, inf. n. [بَرْقٌ and] بَرِيقٌ: (Bd in ii. 18:) or an angel's smiting the clouds, and putting them in motion, in order that they may become propelled, so that thou seest the fires [issue from them]: (Mujáhid, K:) or a whip of light with which the angel drives the clouds: (I'Ab, TA:) sing. of بُرُوقٌ, i. e., of the بروق of the clouds: (S, K:) or it has no pl., being originally an inf. n. (Bd ubi suprà.) بَرْقُ الخُلَّبِ and بَرْقُ خُلَّبٍ and بَرْقٌ خُلَّبٌ signify That [lightning] which is without rain. (S. [See also art. خلب)]

[Lizards of the species called] ضِبَاب, pl. of ضَبٌّ. (IAar, K.) It is app. pl. of بَرُوقٌ or of أَبْرَقُ: more probably, I think, of the former; from the raising of the tail, which is a habit of those lizards.] -A2- See also بُرْقَةٌ.

A lamb; syn. حَمَلٌ [q. v.]: (S, K:) a Persian word, (S,) arabicized; (S, K;) originally بَرَهْ: (K:) pl. [of mult.] بُرْقَانٌ (S, K) and بِرْقَانٌ and [of pauc.] أَبْرَاقٌ. (K.)

[part. n. of بَرِقَ: and particularly explained as meaning] A skin affected by the heat so that its butter melts and becomes decomposed, (JK, O, K,) and does not become compact. (K.)

[app. an inf. n. of un., signifying A flash of lightning]. (M, TA in art. وبص.) -A2- A fit of confusion, or perplexity, affecting one in such a manner that he is unable to see his right course. (K, * TA.)

A quantity of lightning: (Bd in xxiv. 43, TA:) pl. ↓ بُرْقٌ; (TA;) or [this is a coll. gen. n., of which the former is the n. un.; or, probably, it is a mistranscription, and] the pl. is بُرَقٌ, also pronounced بُرُقٌ. (Bd ubi suprà.) -A2- Rugged ground in which are stones and sand and earth mixed together, (S, K, TA,) the stones thereof mostly white, but some being red, and black, and the earth white and of a whitish dust-colour, and sometimes by its side are meadows (رَوْض); (TA;) as also ↓ أَبْرَقُ and ↓ بَرْقَآءُ: (S, K, TA:) or a portion of such land (أَرْض) as is termed ↓ بَرْقَآءُ, which consists of tracts containing black stones mixed with white sand, and which, when spacious, is termed ↓ أَبْرَقُ: (JK:) [and] a mountain mixed with sand; as also ↓ أَبْرَقُ: (IAar, TA:) the pl. of بُرْقَةٌ is بُرَقٌ (K, TA) and بِرَاقٌ; (JK, S;) and that of ↓ ابرق is أَبَارِقُ, (JK, S, K,) after the manner of a subst., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it; (TA;) and that of ↓ برقآء is بَرْقَاوَاتٌ. (As, IAar, S, K.) The بُرَق of the country of the Arabs are more than a hundred; and are distinguished by particular adjuncts, as بُرْقَةٌ الأَثْمَادِ and بُرْقَةُ الأَجَاوِلِ &c. (K.) One says قُنْفُذُ بُرْقَةٍ [A hedge-hog of a برقة], like as one says ضَبُّ كُدْيَةِ (S) ― -b2- [The colour denoted by the epithet أَبْرَقُ: in a mountain, a mixture of blackness and whiteness: see حَقْبَآءُ, voce أَحْقَبُ.] -A3- Paucity of grease or gravy (JK, TA) in food. (TA.)

Shining much in the body: (JK, K:) applied to man. (JK.) -A2- Locusts when they become yellow, and have variegated stripes or streaks: (JK:) or locusts that are variegated (K TA) with white and black: (TA:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة. (K.) ― -b2- [See also بَرَقٌ of which it is a pl.]