عَتِيق

EatiyqN * A horse that precedes, outstrips, or outgoes; as also ↓ EaAtiqN ; or this signifies a horse that precedes, and becomes safe, or secure; (TA; [see 1, first and second sentences;]) or that precedes, outstrips, or outgoes, the [ other ] horses: (Msb:) and the former, a generous, or an excellent, horse: (Msb, TA:) or a horse swift and excellent; or that excites admiration by his generousness or excellence; syn. raAy^iEN : (S, Mgh, O, TA:) pl. EitaAqN : (S, O, Msb:) EatiyqapN applied to a young she-camel means generous, excellent, or swift: (TA:) and EitaAqN has this meaning applied to camels, (TA,) or to such as are termed A^aroHabiy~aAt , (S, O, TA,) and to horses; (K, TA;) or the EitaAq of horses are the generous, or excellent, thereof; and so of birds; (Mgh;) [the noble thereof, in a sense wider that that in which this epithet is applied in English falconry;] or of birds, such as prey; (S, O, K, TA;) EatiyqN being applied to one of them: (TA:) EitaAqu AlT~ayori is also applied [particularly] to eagles: (IAar, TA voce EuqaAbN :) and Eatiyqu AlT~ayori , to the hawk, or falcon: (O, TA:) and EatiyqN signifies anything generous, or excellent; (S;) and anything choice, or best; (S, O, K;) thus applied to a hawk, and dates, and water, and fat: (S:) or AlEatiyqu means dates [themselves], (AHn, O, K,) as in a verse of 'Antarah (or of Khuzaz-Ibn-Lowdhán, S, TA) cited voce ka*aba , (O,) as a proper name thereof; (K;) or, as some say, the dates termed $ihoriyz ; and its pl. is EutuqN : (TA:) and water [itself]: (K:) and fat [itself]: and accord. to IAar, anything that has attained the utmost degree in goodness or badness or beauty or ugliness is termed EatiyqN ; pl. EutuqN . (TA.) ― -b2- Also Beautiful, or comely: so in the saying, fulaAnN Eatiyqu Alwajohi [ Such a one is beautiful, or comely, in respect of the face ]. (O, TA.) And AimoraA^apN EatiyqapN means A woman beautiful, or comely; generous, or noble. (TA.) ― -b3- And (applied to a man, S, O) Thin, or fine, or delicate, in his external skin, after having been coarse and rough. (S, O, K.) ― -b4- And, applied to a slave, signifying Freed from slavery, or emancipated; (S, Mgh, O, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ EaAtiqN , and ↓ muEotaqN ; (S, O, Msb, K;) and some of the relaters of traditions say ↓ maEotuwqN , (TA,) but this is not allowable: (Msb, TA:) EatiyqapN is applied to a female, (S, O, Msb, K,) and EatiyqN also: Msb:) the pl. of EatiyqN is EutaqaA='u , (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) and EitaAqN also sometimes occurs, like kiraAmN as a pl. of kariymN ; (Msb;) and the pl. of EatiyqapN is EataAy^iqu . (S, O, Msb.) AlEatiyqu is an appellation applied to Es-Siddeek, (S, K,) i. e. (S) to Aboo-Bekr, (S, O, K,) as a surname, (K,) because he was said by the Prophet to be freed ( Eatiyq ) from the fire [of Hell]: or because of his beauty, or comeliness: (S, O, K:) or he was so named by his mother. (O, K.) ― -b5- And Old; (S, Mgh, O, L, Msb, K;) as also ↓ EaAtiqN : (S, O:) the former is applied in this sense to anything, even to a man: (S, L:) and the pl. is EitaAqN , which occurs in a trad. applied to the earlier verses of the Kur-án that were revealed at Mekkeh, (L, TA,) and EutoqN , (S, K, *) or EutuqN , with two dammehs, (Mgh, Msb,) like burudN pl. of bariydN , (Msb,) applied to daraAhim , (Mgh, Msb,) EutoqN being [probably] a contraction of EutuqN (like as burodN is of burudN ) and in like manner applied to danaAniyr , (S,) [and Eut~aqN occurs in the TA in art. sm , agreeably with general analogy if pl. of EaAtiqN ,] but Eut~uqN , with two dammehs and teshdeed, is a mistake. (Mgh.) Albayotu AlEatiyqu is an appellation of The Kaabeh, (S, O, K,) given to it in the Kur-án [xxii. 30 and 34, as meaning the Old House ], (O,) because it was the first house founded upon the earth, (O, K,) as is said in the Kur [iii. 90]: (O:) or [as meaning (assumed tropical:) the Freed House, ] because it was freed from submersion (O, K) in the days of the Deluge, (O,) being taken up; (TA;) or from the imperious, overb