عقیقہ

’aqīqa (for A. عقیقة , s.f. fr. ’aqīq, 'cleft,' etc.), s.m. The hair on the head of a new-born infant (so called because it is cutor shavedoff on the sixth day);—the ceremony of shaving the head of an infant on the sixth day after childbirth, and a sacrifice made and a feast given on that day.