بَرْقٌ

[Lightning;] what gleams in the clouds, (TA,) or, from the clouds; from بَرَقَ [in the first of the senses explained above], said of a thing, verbal noun [بَرْقٌ and] بَرِيقٌ: (Bd in ii. 18:) or an angel's smiting the clouds, and putting them in motion, in order that they may become propelled, so that thou seest the fires [issue from them]: (Mujáhid, K:) or a whip of light with which the angel drives the clouds: (I'Ab, TA:) singular of بُرُوقٌ, i. e., of the بروق of the clouds: (S, K:) or it has no plural, being originally a verbal noun (Bd ubi suprà.) بَرْقُ الخُلَّبِ and بَرْقُ خُلَّبٍ and بَرْقٌ خُلَّبٌ signify That [lightning] which is without rain. (S. [See also article خلب)]