عَاتِكٌ

, (K,) or عَاتِكَةٌ, (S,) or both, (IDrd, O,) applied to a bow (قَوْس), Red (IDrd, S, O, K) in its wood (IDrd, O) by reason of oldness: (IDrd, S, O, K:) as also عَاتِقٌ (K in article عتق) and عَاتِقَةٌ: (S and O and K in that article:) [or] عَاتِكَةٌ, so applied, signifies of a pure, or clear, yellow colour. (Skr, TA.) أَحْمَرُ عَاتِكٌ signifies Intensely red. (Lh, O, TA.) And عَاتِكٌ, alone, Yellow. (TA. [App. applied therein, in this sense, to a vein or a root (عرق, thus without any vowel-sign)].) And Pure, or unmixed; applied to a colour (K, TA) of any kind, and to a thing of any kind. (TA.) And Clear; applied to [the beverage called] نَبِيذ: (IDrd, O, K, TA:) or, so applied, old; according to Lth with ن, but correctly with ت. (TA in article عنك.) And i. q. كَرِيمٌ [as meaning Highly esteemed, or excellent, or the like]; (K, TA;) applied to anything. (TA.)

عَاتِكَةٌ applied to a woman means Being, or becoming, red (مُحْمَرَّة [in the CK مُخَمَّرَة]) by reason of perfume; (K, TA;) from عَتَكَتِ القَوْسُ [explained above]: (IKt, TA:) or having a stain of perfume: (TA:) or being, or becoming, yellow from saffron: (R, TA:) or having clearness and redness: or, according to Ibn-Saad, lean, or light of flesh; slender and lean; or lean, and lank in the belly: (TA:) or high, or exalted, in rank, condition, or estimation; high-born, or noble: (O, TA:) or, according to IAar, from عَتَكَتْ عَلَى بَعْلِهَا, [said of a woman,] meaning نَشَزَتْ; but this is said by Th to be correctly عَنَكَت, the ت being a mistranscription. (TA.)