عَكَّةٌ
1.
(Lth, S, O, K) and
عُكَّةٌ (Lth, S, K) and
عِكَّةٌ and
عَكَكٌ (K) and
عَكِيكٌ and
عِكَاكٌ, (S, O, K,) which last is also a plural, (K,) said to be plural of عَكَّةٌ, (O,) [Sultriness; i. e.] vehemence of heat (Lth, S, O, K) in summer (Lth) [with moisture (see the first sentence of this article) and] with stillness of the wind: (K:) it may be with the south or southerly wind (الجَنُوب) and the east or easterly wind (الصَّبَا). (TA.) Hence the saying of the rhyming-proser, إِذَا طَلَعَ السِّمَاكْ ذَهَبَ
وَقَلَّ اللِّكَاكْ
العِكَاكْ [When
السماك
rises aurorally, the sultriness goes, or rather has gone, (see السِّمَاكُ, and another example of العِكَاك there cited,) and the pressing, or crowding, at, or to, the water becomes little]. (O.)
2.
See also عَكٌّ.
3.
And see عُكَّةٌ, in two places.