بُخْتُ

[a coll. gen. n.] A species of camels; (S, * Msb;) the Khurásánee [or Bactrian] camels; (K;) begot between an Arabian she-camel and a فَالِج [which is a large two-humped camel brought from Es-Sind for the purpose of covering]; (TA;) long-necked; (Nh;) [large and strong, according to Ibn-Maaroof; and two-humped, according to Leo Africanus: the Mauritanian Arabs call thus all camels promiscuously; but according to the more common use of the word are to be understood hairy camels, fit for winter-work; generally of Turhumán or Bactrian breed; distinct from the Arabian, which are accustomed to bear bardens in winter and summer: (Golius:)] they are also called ↓ بُخْتِيَّةٌ: (K:) n. un. ↓ بُخْتِىٌّ; (S, Msb;) feminine ↓ بُخْتِيَّةٌ: (S:) plural بَخَاتِىُّ, (S, Msb, K,) imperfectly decl., (S,) and بَخَاتَى (K, TA [in the CK بَخَاتِى]) and بَخَاتٍ, (K,) and you may say [with the article] البَخَاتِى, without tenween: (S, Msb:) it is a foreign, or Persian, word, (TA,) arabicized: but some say, it is Arabic: (S, TA:) some hesitate as to its being Arabic because بَخْتٌ, meaning خَظٌّ, is not. (Msb.)