حِقْفٌ
1.
A curving, or winding, tract of sand: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) plural [of pauc.] أَحْقَافٌ (S, Msb, K) and [of mult.] حِقَافٌ (S, K) and حُقُوفٌ, (O, L, K,) and plural plural حَقَايءِفُ and حِقَفَةٌ, (K,) the former of these two being plural of أَحْقَافٌ or of حِقَافٌ, (L, TA,) but the latter of them, according to the O, is a plural, not a plural plural : (TA:) or a heap, or hill, of sand, that has assumed a bowed form: (IDrd, TA:) or a curving, or winding, thin tract of sand: (Har p. 51:) or a great, round tract of sand: (Ibn-' Arafeh, K:) or an oblong, elevated tract of sand: (Fr, K:) or الأَحْقَافُ applies [particularly] to certain oblong tracts of sand in the region of Esh-Shihr: (K, * TA:) according to J, [in the S,] to the country of 'Ád. (TA.)