مُعْتَنَقٌ

A place where the أَعْنَاق [apparently meaning upper portions] of the جِبَال [or mountains], according to the copies of the K, [and thus in the O,] but correctly حِبَال, with the unpointed خ, [i. e. elongated and elevated tracts of sand], (TA,) emerge from the سَرَاب [or mirage]: (O, K, TA:) used in this sense by Ru-beh. (O, TA.)