عَنْزٌ

A she-goat; the female of the common goat: (S, O, K:) or a she-goat a year old; (Msb;) [and so عَنْزَةٌ: (Freytag, from the Kitáb el-Addád:)] and the female of the mountain-goat; and of the gazelle: (S, O:) plural [of pauc.] أَعْنُزٌ and [of mult.] عُنُوزٌ and عِنَازٌ, or, accord, to some, the last of these is plural of عَنْزٌ in the last of the senses explained above. (TA.) هُمَا كَرُكْبَتَىِ العَنْزِ [They two are like the two knees of the she-goat] is a prov. applied to two men vying with each other, (O, K,) or equalling each other, (TA,) because her two knees, when she desires to lie down, fall together. (O, K. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 861: where, instead of العنز, we find البَعِيرِ; and thus I find in a MS. copy of the Proverbs of Meyd.]) And it is said in another prov., to him who commits a crime that occasions his destruction, لَا تَكُ كَالْعَنْزِ تَبْحَثُ عَنِ المُدْيَةِ [Be not thou like the she-goat that scrapes up the dust, or earth, from over the butcher's knife]. (TA. [See also بَاحِثٌ.]) Hence the saying, يَوْمٌ كَيَوْمِ العَنْزِ [A day like the day of the she-goat]; mentioned by Th; alluding to its bringing death. (TA.) And لَقِىَ يَوْمَ العَنْزِ [He met with the day of the she-goat] is also a prov., (O, TA,) applied to him who meets with that which destroys him, (O, K,) or to him who labours for his own destruction. (A.)

العَنْزُ is a name of (assumed tropical:) The star [ ε] on the left [or (as some figure the constellation) the right] elbow of Auriga: and العِنَازُ is a name of (assumed tropical:) The two stars [ ζ and η] on the left [or the right] wrist together with العَيُّوق [which is Capella]. (Kzw in his description of Auriga.)

Also The female eagle: (S, O, K: [see also عَنْسٌ:]) plural عُنُوزٌ. (TA.) And The female vulture: (IDrd, O, K:) plural عُنُوزٌ. (IDrd, O.) And The female of the [species of bustard called] حُبارَى (IDrd, O, K) is sometimes thus termed: (O:) and it is said to be also called العَنْزَةُ. (TA.) And The female of the hawk. (TA.)

Also A species of aquatic bird; (O, K; *) [by some, in the present day, applied to a gray heron;] also called عَنْزُ المَاءِ. (O.)

And A species of fish; also called عَنْزُالمَاءِ: (Az, O:) according to Ibn- 'Abbád, (O,) a certain great fish, which a mule can hardly, or in nowise, carry: (O, K:) and the plural, he says, is أَعْنِزَةٌ. (O.)

عَنْزٌ also signifies An [eminence, or a hill, such as is termed] أَكَمَة: (S:) or a black أَكَمَة. (O, K.)

And A rock in the water: plural عُنُوزٌ. (TA.)

And Land having in it ruggedness and sand and stones and [the species of tamarisk called] أَثْل. (TA.)

And I. q. بَاطِلٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)