عُقَابٌ

[The eagle;] a certain bird, (S, O, K,) of those that prey, (Msb,) well known: (K:) of the feminine gender: (S, O, Msb:) [though] applied to the male and the female; but with this distinction, that you say of the male, هٰذَا عُقَابٌ ذَكَرٌ [This is a male eagle]: or it is only female; and a bird of another kind couples with it; whence Ibn-'Oneyn says, satirizing a person named Ibn-Seyyideh, Say thou to Ibn-Seyyideh,

مَا أَنْتَ إِلَّا كَالْعُقَابِ فَأُمُّهُ

مَعْرُوفَةٌ وَلَهُ أَبٌ مَجْهُولُ

[“ Thou art not other than the like of the eagle; ” for his mother is known, but he has a father unknown]: (MF, TA:) the plural (of pauc., S, O) is أَعْقُبٌ, (S, O, K,) because it is of the feminine gender and the measure أَفْعُلٌ specially belongs to pls. of feminine nouns [though not to such exclusively], (S, O,) and أَعْقِبَةٌ, (Kr, TA,) and (of mult., S, O) عِقْبَانٌ (S, O, K) and عَقَايءِبُ according to AHei, but Ed-Demámeenee thinks this to be strange; and plural plural عَقَابِينُ. (TA.) عِقْبَانُ الجِرْذَانِ [The eagles that prey upon the large field-rats] are not black, but of the colour termed كُهْبَة; and no use is made of their feathers, except that boys feather with them round-topped pointless arrows. (AHn, TA.)

[Hence,] العُقَابُ is the name of (assumed tropical:) One of the northern constellations, [i. e. Aquila,] the stars of which are nine within the figure, and six without, of the former of which are three well known, called النَّسْرُ الطَّايءِرُ [q. v.]. (Kzw.)

[Hence also,] (assumed tropical:) The عُقَاب of the banner, or standard; (S, O;) [apparently meaning the flag attached to a lance;] what is bound [to a lance] for a prefect, or governor; likened to the bird so called; and of the feminine gender. (L, TA.) It is also the name of (assumed tropical:) The banner, or standard, of the Prophet. (O, K.) And عُقَابٌ also means (assumed tropical:) A large banner or standard. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) i. q. غَايَةٌ: so in the saying of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, describing wine,

لَهَا غَايَةٌ تَهْدِى الكِرَامَ عُقَابُهَا

[meaning It has a banner, which guides the generous; like as the military banner guides and attracts warriors: for غَايَةٌ sometimes signifies a sign which the vintner used to set up to attract customers]: the repetition is approvable because of the difference of the two words in themselves: plural عِقْبَانٌ. (TA.)

عُقَابٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A black she-camel; as being likened to the bird. [so called], (AA, O.)

And A stone (or piece of rock, L) protruding in the inside of a well, which lacerates the [leathern] bucket; (S, O, K, TA;) sometimes it is before [i. e. above] the casing [of stones or bricks]: it is when a mass of stone becomes displaced; and sometimes the water-drawer stands upon it: it is of the feminine gender: plural as above. (TA.) And The stone upon which the waterer stands, (O, K,) [according to SM,] projecting beyond the casing in a well, the same that is meant in the next preceding sentence, (TA,) [but this I think doubtful, for Sgh adds,] between two stones which support it. (O.) Accord. to IAar, the قَبِيلَة is a mass of stone, or rock, at the mouth of a well; and the عُقَابَانِ are [two masses of stone] at the two sides of the قبيلة, supporting it. (TA.) And A rock, or mass of stone, projecting in the side of a mountain, like a stair, or series of steps: (S, O, K:) or an ascent, like stairs, in the side of a mountain. (TA.)

Also A hill; synonym رَابِيَةٌ. (O, K.) And Anything elevated, that is not very long or tall. (O, K. *)

A channel by which water flows to a trough, or tank. (O, K.)

A thing resembling an almond, that comes forth in one of the legs of a beast. (O, K.)

A small thread that enters into [or passes through] the two bores of the ring of the قُرْط [or ear-drop], (O, K, *) with which the latter is bound, or fastened: (O:) or, according to Az, the thread that binds the two extremities of the ring of the قُرْط. (TA.)

Accord. to Th, it signifies also Garments of the kind called أَبْرَاد [plural of بُرْدٌ, q. v.]. (TA voce خُدَارِيَّةٌ.)

And according to Kr, [in the Munjid,] i. q. حَرْثٌ [apparently meaning A ploughshare]. (TA.)

See also أَعْقَابٌ.

And العُقَابَانِ signifies Two pieces of wood between which a man is extended to be flogged: (L, TA:) or two pieces of wood which are set up, stuck in the ground, between which he who is beaten, or he who is [to be] crucified, is extended. (Mgh.)