عتق

عَتَقَ

To precede, outstrip, or get ahead, thereby becoming safe from pursuit.

Used especially of a horse or mare, and also of one who precedes another thing.

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عَتَقَ

To pass out of a former condition into freedom or a more advanced state.

Includes a slave becoming free, a girl passing beyond childhood or family service toward marriageability, and a young she-camel becoming free of oral disease and mange.

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عَتَقَ

To become thin, fine, or delicate in the outer skin after having been coarse or rough.

Applied to a person, especially a man, in the cited description.

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عَتَقَ

To reach the utmost point, extent, or degree.

A general verbal usage for attaining a limit or extreme.

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عَتَقَ

To become sound, good, right, or properly ordered.

Applied to a thing, property, or cattle.

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عَتَقَ

To become old or mature with the passage of time.

Applied especially to clarified butter and wine, where age may also imply improved quality.

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عَتَقَتْ عَلَيْهِ يَمِينٌ

For an oath to become longstanding and binding.

The construction describes an oath that has remained in force and is not violated.

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عَتَقَهُ

To bite, especially with the front teeth.

The object is followed by بِفِيهِ when the biting action is specified as being with the mouth.

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عَتَّقَ

To make old by keeping for a long time; to age.

Used transitively of a thing and especially of wine that has been stored until old.

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أَعْتَقَ

To make a horse or mare hasten, precede, and become safe from pursuit.

A causative counterpart of the Form I usage of a horse or mare getting ahead.

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أَعْتَقَ

To emancipate a slave; to free someone from slavery.

A transitive causative construction with the slave as object.

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أَعْتَقَ

To put property or cattle into a good, sound, or proper condition.

A causative construction applied to property or livestock.

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أَعْتَقَ

To dig and case a well, making it sound or serviceable.

Used in the construction أعتق قليبه, referring to preparing a well with stones or bricks.

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أَعْتَقَ

To take or secure a place for oneself so that it becomes one's property.

The place is acquired and possessed by the subject.

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أَعْتَقَ

To put a register or account into an orderly, correct state and take something from it.

Used of a personal register or account once it has been made correct and serviceable.

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أَعْتَقَ

To make an oath inexpiable or binding.

A specialized causative usage concerning the legal or binding force of an oath.

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عِتْقٌ

Nobility, generosity, excellence, or distinction of quality.

Applied as a quality of a horse or other excellent thing, and figuratively to nobility or generosity in a person's appearance or character.

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عِتْقٌ

Beauty or comeliness.

A noun denoting attractive or distinguished appearance.

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عِتْقٌ

The state or condition of freedom, as opposed to slavery.

Also used for emancipation and in expressions referring to a freed person.

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عِتْقٌ

Oldness or age attained by an inanimate thing.

A nominal expression for antiquity or long standing, especially with inanimate objects such as wine or dates.

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عِتْقٌ

A species of tree whose wood is used for Arabian bows.

The name alludes to the excellence of the bow made from it.

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عَتِيقٌ

A horse that precedes, outstrips, or outruns others.

The word may also imply that the horse becomes safe from being overtaken.

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عَتِيقٌ

Generous, noble, excellent, or choice.

Applied to horses, birds of prey, and other things of distinguished quality; with birds, it may denote the noble or choice among them.

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عَتِيقٌ

A choice or best specimen of something.

Used adjectivally of a selected or finest example, including such things as a hawk, dates, water, or fat.

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عَتِيقٌ

Having reached an utmost degree or extreme.

An intensive descriptive usage that can apply to the highest degree of goodness, beauty, or, in the cited formulation, even their opposites.

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عَتِيقٌ

A prime or choice substance, especially dates, water, or fat.

Used substantivally in the cited lexical traditions; the particular substance is supplied by context.

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عَتِيقٌ

Beautiful, comely, generous, or noble in personal appearance or character.

Applied to a face, person, or woman; the beauty and nobility senses may overlap in personal description.

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عَتِيقٌ

Thin, fine, or delicate in the outer skin after being coarse or rough.

Applied to a man in the cited usage.

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عَتِيقٌ

Freed or emancipated from slavery.

Applied to a male or female freed slave; it also occurs as the epithet عتيق for Abū Bakr, with explanations connected to freedom from the Fire or to beauty.

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عَتِيقٌ

Old, long-standing, or fully matured.

Applied to things including bridges and wine; with wine, it can imply long storage, an unbroken seal, or attained maturity. The Kaaba usage is treated separately under the Quranic form.

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عَتِيقٌ

Wine, including the prepared grape beverage known as طِلاء.

A substantival beverage usage distinct from the adjective meaning old wine.

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عَتِيقٌ

Milk.

A substantival lexical usage recorded without a further restriction.

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عَتِيقٌ

A particular male palm tree.

The tree is characterized by a female palm not shedding its fruit.

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عَتِيقٌ

Well-woven or finely made cloth.

Used of a garment or piece of cloth with a good, close weave.

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عَاتِقٌ

A young bird that has passed beyond the fledgling stage and become independent in flight.

Applied to a young bird, including the young of the sandgrouse or pigeon; the usage is associated with having gone forth or outstripped the earlier stage.

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عَاتِقٌ

A girl who has reached the beginning of puberty and young womanhood.

The cited usage concerns a girl who has passed childhood, may be kept behind the family curtain, and has not yet been separated to a husband.

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عَاتِقٌ

A wine-skin whose wine is good or whose odor is pleasant from age; also a wide, good wine-skin or water-bag.

Applied to a زِقّ or a leathern vessel, with quality, age, or breadth supplied by the construction.

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عَاتِقٌ

An old bow whose color has altered, especially one that has become red or dark.

A specialized description of a bow aged enough for its color to change.

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عَاتِقٌ

The upper shoulder region between the shoulder and neck, where the mantle or sword-cord is placed.

The term may be treated as masculine or feminine in the cited usage; its plural is عواتق.

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العَوَاتِقُ

The sides, lateral parts, or adjacent portions.

A plural usage of عاتق with the meaning of sides or surrounding areas.

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مُعَتَّقَةٌ

Old wine that has been kept for a long time.

A passive-derived adjective applied to wine aged through storage.

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مُعَتَّقَةٌ

A kind of perfume or fragrant substance.

Used substantivally for a particular type of عطر.

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مِعْتَاقُ الوَسِيقَةِ

A man who drives captured camels to safety and outstrips those pursuing them.

A conventional intensive expression for one who secures a captured herd while escaping with it.

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