بَقَرٌ
1.
a gen. n., (S, Msb,) a word of well-known meaning, (S, Msb, K,) [The bovine genus; the ox, or bull, and cow; and oxen, or bulls, and cows; neat; black cattle;] applied to the domestic and the wild: (TA:) [but the wild have also distinctive appellations, as will be seen below:] n. un. بَقَرَةٌ, (S, Msb, K, [but in the K it is said that بَقَرٌ is plural of بَقَرَةٌ,]) which is applied to the male and the female; (S, Msb, K;) the ة being added only to restrict it to unity: (S, Msb:) the plural of بَقَرٌ is أَبْقُرٌ [a plural of pauc.]; (M,) and أَبْقَارٌ, meaning herds of oxen, or bulls, or cows: (Msb and TA in article ابل:) and the plural of بَقَرَةٌ is بَقَرَاتٌ (S, Msb, K) and بُقُرٌ and بُقَّارٌ (K) and بَوَاقِرُ (As, T, K) and
أُبْقُورٌ; (K;) [or rather this last is a quasi-plural n.;] and the following [also] are quasi-plural ns., namely,
بَيْقُورٌ, (K,) which is synonym with بَقَرٌ, (S,) and
بَقِيرٌ, (K,) or this signifies a collection, or herd, of
بَقَر, (S,) and
بَاقِرٌ, (K,) or this signifies a collection, or herd, of
بَقَر
with their pastors, (Lth, S,) and
بَاقُورٌ, and
بَاقُورَةٌ, (K,) or this last is synonym with بَقَرَةٌ in the dialect of the people of El-Yemen: (S:) or
بَاقُورٌ and
يَبْقُورٌ and
أُبْقُورٌ are all synonym with بَقَرٌ; and so, according to Ktr, is
بَاقُورَةٌ. (Mgh.)
2.
بَقَرُ الوَحْشِ [and البَقَرُ الوَحْشِىُّ signify The wild ox, or bull, and cow; and wild oxen, or bulls, and cows, collectively: n. un. بَقَرَةُ الوَحْشِ and البَقَرَةُ الوَحْشِيَّةُ; masculine and feminine: in Egypt, these appellations are applied to the antilope defassa of modern zoologists: so says Sir Gardner Wilkinson; and to this, I believe, they generally apply in the poems &c. of the early Arabs: it is a species of bovine antelope: in Barbary, it seems that the animal thus called is another species of bovine antelope, or perhaps a variety of the former; it is said to be what is termed by Pallas antilope bubalis; by others, alcephalus bubalis, or acronotus bubalis; and this is said to come occasionally to the Nile: but the Arabic appellations given above are employed with much laxity: thus we find بَقَرُ الوَحْشِ explained as meaning] a kind of animal of which there are four different species: the first called
مِهِا [i. e. مَهًا, a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is مَهَاةٌ]; the second,
ايل [i. e. إِيَّلٌ]; the third
يحمور [i. e. يَحْمُورٌ], or يامور [i. e. يَأْمُورٌ]; the fourth,
ثيثل [or ثَيْتَلٌ], and also
وعل [i. e. وَعْلٌ]: (Ed-Demeeree, cited by De Sacy, erroneously written by him “ Domaïri, ” in his Chrest. Ar. sec. ed. ii. 435 et seq.:) or what is called in Persian
كوزن [or Gَوَزْنْ (see also إِيَّلٌ in article اول)]; it has a great horn, with branches; an additional branch growing upon its horn every year; and its horn is solid, thus differing from the horns of other animals, for their horns are hollow: when it hears singing, and the sounds of musical instruments, it listens thereto, and then it takes no care to guard itself from the arrows, by reason of its intense delight therein: when it raises its ear, it hears sounds; and when it relaxes it, it hears not anything. (Kzw: also cited by De Sacy, ubi suprà.) The Arabs regard بَقَر [meaning بقر الوحش] as ominous of evil, because of the sharpness of their horns. (Ham p. 285.)
3.
مِلْءُ مَسْكِ البَقَرَةِ [The quantity that fills the hide of the bull, or cow,] means (tropical:) a large quantity. (A.)
4.
الظِّبَاءَ عَلَى البَقَرِ [or الظِّبَاءُ] and الكِرَابَ عَلَى البَقَرِ [or الكِرَابُ, and الكِلَابَ or الكِلَابُ,] are provs. of the Arabs. (TA.) [See arts. ظبي and كرب and كلب.]
5.
عَيْنُ البَقَرِ (assumed tropical:) [The buphthalmum, or ox-eye;] i. q.
بَهَارٌ, q. v. (S in article بهر.)
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بَقَرٌ is also applied to (tropical:) A family, or household; those who dwell with a man, and whose maintenance is incumbent on him. (TA.) You say, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ يَجُرُّ بَقَرَهُ (tropical:) Such a one came dragging along his family, or household. (A, * TA.) And عَلَى فُلَانٍ بَقَرَةٌ مِنْ عِيَالٍ
وَمَالٍ (tropical:) Upon such a one is dependent a troop, or large number, of his family, and of camels or the like; (A, * TA;) and in like manner you say, كَرِشٌ مِنْ عِيَالٍ. (A.) And فُلَانٌ فِى بَقَرٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ (tropical:) Such a one is among a large company of men. (A.)