أَعَقُّ مِنْ ضَبٍّ

[More undutiful, &c., to kindred, than a lizard of the species called ضبّ] is a prov. [mentioned, but not explained, in the O]: IAar says, the female [of the ضبّ] is meant; and its عُقُوق consists in its eating its young ones. (TA.) [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 152-3. And see an example of أَعَقُّ in a verse cited in article زهد, conj. 2.]

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