عكاز

See also: عكار

Arabic

Alternative forms

• عُكَّازَة (ʕukkāza)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕuk.kaːz/

Noun

عُكَّاز • (ʕukkāz) m (plural عَكَاكِيز (ʕakākīz))

1. a pointed iron foot of a spear or walking stick, or a cane, staff having a pointed iron foot, a spear
   • c. 1110, Al-Ḥarīriyy ed. Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, “المقامة الصورية”, in Les séances de Hariri, volume 1, Paris, published 1822, page 330:

     وَقَد بَذَلَ لَهَا مِنَ الصَّدَاقِ شَلَّاقًا وَعُكّازًا. وَصِقَاعًا وَكُرَّازًا. فَأَنْكَحُوهُ إِنْكَاحَ مِثْلِهِ

     wa-qad baḏala la-hā mina ṣ-ṣadāqi šallāqan wa-ʕukkāzan. wa-ṣiqāʕan wa-kurrāzan. fa-ʔankaḥū-hu ʔinkāḥa miṯli-hī

     And he offered for her of dowry a beggar’s knapsack and mendicant’s staff, and a mouth-rag and a drinking-jar. And they gave him off to marriage in such a fashion.

Declension

Declension of noun عُكَّاز (ʕukkāz)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عُكَّاز ʕukkāz	الْعُكَّاز al-ʕukkāz	عُكَّاز ʕukkāz
Nominative	عُكَّازٌ ʕukkāzun	الْعُكَّازُ al-ʕukkāzu	عُكَّازُ ʕukkāzu
Accusative	عُكَّازًا ʕukkāzan	الْعُكَّازَ al-ʕukkāza	عُكَّازَ ʕukkāza
Genitive	عُكَّازٍ ʕukkāzin	الْعُكَّازِ al-ʕukkāzi	عُكَّازِ ʕukkāzi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عُكَّازَيْن ʕukkāzayn	الْعُكَّازَيْن al-ʕukkāzayn	عُكَّازَيْ ʕukkāzay
Nominative	عُكَّازَانِ ʕukkāzāni	الْعُكَّازَانِ al-ʕukkāzāni	عُكَّازَا ʕukkāzā
Accusative	عُكَّازَيْنِ ʕukkāzayni	الْعُكَّازَيْنِ al-ʕukkāzayni	عُكَّازَيْ ʕukkāzay
Genitive	عُكَّازَيْنِ ʕukkāzayni	الْعُكَّازَيْنِ al-ʕukkāzayni	عُكَّازَيْ ʕukkāzay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	عَكَاكِيز ʕakākīz	الْعَكَاكِيز al-ʕakākīz	عَكَاكِيز ʕakākīz
Nominative	عَكَاكِيزُ ʕakākīzu	الْعَكَاكِيزُ al-ʕakākīzu	عَكَاكِيزُ ʕakākīzu
Accusative	عَكَاكِيزَ ʕakākīza	الْعَكَاكِيزَ al-ʕakākīza	عَكَاكِيزَ ʕakākīza
Genitive	عَكَاكِيزَ ʕakākīza	الْعَكَاكِيزِ al-ʕakākīzi	عَكَاكِيزِ ʕakākīzi

Related terms

• عَكَزَ (ʕakaza, “to lean upon the staff; to stick the spear into the ground”)
• عَكَّزَ (ʕakkaza, “to fix the iron foot upon the staff”)
• تَعَكَّزَ (taʕakkaza, “to bow by the staff”)
• عَكُوز (ʕakūz, “a socket of iron where a person affected by elephantiasis puts the foot”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “عكاز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 200–201
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عكاز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2120

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Hijazi Arabic

عُكَّاز

Etymology

From Arabic عُكَّاز (ʕukkāz)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕuˈkːaːz/

Noun

عُكَّاز • (ʿukkāz) m (plural عُكَّازات ‎(ʿukkāzāt) or عَكاكيز ‎(ʿakākīz))

1. walking stick, cane

See also

• صولجان (ṣōlajān, “mace, sceptre”)
• عَصاية (ʿaṣāya, “stick”)