حِدَأَةٌ
kite
, (S, Msb, K,) or ↓ حِدَأٌ, [but see what follows,] sometimes pronounced ↓ حَدَأٌ, (Mgh,) [The kite; vulgarly called حِدَايَة;] a certain bird, (S, Mgh, K,) well known; (S, K;) a certain noxious bird; (Msb;) surnamed أَبُوالخَطَّافِ and ابو الصَّلْتِ; (TA;) that preys upon large field-rats (جِرْذَان): (Mgh, TA:) J and Sgh say that the word should not be pronounced ↓ حَدَأَةٌ; but AHei mentions this pronunciation on the authority of [some of] the Arabs; and accord. to IAar and IAmb, the فَأْس [see above] and this bird were sometimes called alike ↓ حَدَأَةٌ and ↓ حَدَأٌ: the more approved pronunciation of the name of the bird, however, is with kesr [i. e. حِدَأَةٌ]: the pl. is ↓ حِدَأٌ (S, Msb, K) and حِدَآءٌ, (K,) both extr., (TA,) [or rather the former is a coll. gen. n.,] and حِدْآنٌ: (Msb, K:) and the following are variations of the name of this bird: حُدَّى, and حُدَيَّا, (TA,) the latter said by AHát to be an erroneous form of the word, used by the people of El-Hijáz, (Mgh, TA,) and ↓ حُدَيْيأِيَةٌ, app. a dim., for ↓ حُدَيْيأَةٌ, also pronounced حُدَيَّةٌ, (TS, TA,) and حُدُوٌّ, occurring in a trad. in conjunction with أُفْعُوٌّ [for أَفْعًى], (Mgh, TA,) of the dial. of the people of Mekkeh. (TA in art. حدو.) Hence the saying, وَرَآءَكِ بُنْدُقَة ↓ حِدَأَ حِدَأَ, (S, K, TA,) for which the vulgar say, حَدَا حَدَا, (S,) [accord. to some, meaning O kite, O kite, a bullet is behind thee: accord. to others, O Hidà, O Hidà, Bundukah is behind thee:] Esh-Sharkee (Ibn-El-Kutámee, TA) says, (S,) حِدَأٌ and بُنْدُقَةُ were two tribes, descendants of حِدَأُ بْنُ نَمِرَةَ and بُنْدُقَةُ بْنُ مَظَّةَ, (S, K, *) and both of سَعْدُ العَشِيرَةِ; (S, TA;) the former in El-Koofeh, and the latter in El-Yemen: the former attacked the latter, and obtained spoil from them; and then the latter attacked the former, and destroyed them: (TA:) and hence this saying: (S, K, TA:) or حِدَأَ is here an apocopated form of حِدَأَة: (S, K:) so says ISk: (S:) and AO says that by it is here meant the bird [i. e. the kite]; and by بندقة, the thing with which one shoots [from a cross-bow, namely, a bullet]; and the prov. is used to caution a person: accord. to Ibn-El-Kelbee, it is applied to him who esteems himself cunning in an affair, and is outwitted therein by another: accord. to the A, to him who is threatened with an evil near at hand. (TA.) -A2- حِدَأَةٌ also signifies The سَالِفَة (meaning the fore part, TA, [or the fore part from beneath the ear to the middle of the collarbone,]) of the neck of a horse: (As, K:) pl. حِدَآء/ق. (As, TA.) -A3- See also حَدَأَةٌ.