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Entries on عكن in 12 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib, and 9 more

عكن

5 تعكّن, said of the belly (S, Msb, K) of a girl, or young woman, (K,) It had creases, or wrinkles, originating from fatness. (S, Msb, K.) b2: And It (a thing) was, or became, heaped up, one part upon another, and folded. (TA.) عُكْنَةٌ A crease, or wrinkle, in the belly, originating from fatness: pl. عُكَنٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and (S, Msb) sometimes they said (Msb) أَعْكَانٌ [which is a pl. of pauc.]. (S, Msb, TA.) b2: عُكَنُ الدِّرْعِ means The folds of the coat of mail: so in a verse cited voce أَخْنَسُ: one says دِرْعٌ ذَاتُ عُكَنٍ [A coat of mail having folds] when it is wide, folding upon the wearer by reason of its width. (TA.) عَكْنَآءُ A girl, or young woman, having creases, or wrinkles, in her belly, originating from fatness; as also ↓ مُعَكَّنَةٌ. (K.) b2: And A she-camel thick in the teats (K, TA) and in the flesh of the udder; and in like manner a ewe or goat. (TA.) نَعَمٌ عَكَنَانٌ, and sometimes pronounced عَكْنَانٌ [app. by poetic license], (S,) or إِبِلٌ عَكْنَانٌ and عَكَنَانٌ, (K,) Numerous camels: (S, K:) or numerous great camels. (TA.) عِكَانٌ The neck: (K:) app. a dial. var. of عِجَانٌ, of the dial. of El-Yemen. (TA.) مُعَكَّنَةٌ: see عَكْنَآءُ.
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