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しかし''ʿAnqāʾ''、ʿはʾanāq（عناق「不幸、つらい出来事」）とも関係があり、muḡribとともに災難の意味で使われていた<ref name="lane"/>。それは、この鳥はもともとすべて完璧に創られたが、疫病や災いとなり、殺されてしまったと言われているからである<ref>Phoenix (mythological bird) , https://www.britannica.com/topic/phoenix-mythological-bird#ref263489 , Encyclopedia Britannica , access-date:3 October 2019 </ref><ref>Abi Fadel , Marwan , Honouring the gods in the classical Mediterranean realm and on its fringes - The phoenix in Arab-Muslim sources , http://hemed.univ-lemans.fr/cours2012/en/co/grain5.html , hemed.univ-lemans.fr</ref>。

The anqa was described as "very beautiful and colorful with a long neck, human face, four pairs of wings{{Efn|"و في زمن موسى عليه السلام طائرة اسمها العنقاء لها أربعة أجنحة من كل جانب (.. in the time of Moses the bird named Al-Anqa having a four wings on either sides-->)}} , and some resemblance with every living being"{{Efn|"و كانت العنقاء طائرة عظيمة الخلق، لها وجه إنسان، و فيها من كل حيوان شبه (..In it there were numerous birds one of which was the anqa, large in body, having a long neck, and a human face. it has some resemblance with every living being.-->}} and a "whiteness" in its neck.{{Efn|name=Al-Farahidi-quote|والعَنْقاءُ: طائِرٌ لم يَبْقَ في أيدي الناس من صِفتها غيرُ اسمِها. ويقالُ بل سُمِّيَتْ به لبياضٍ في عُنقِها كالطَّوق. "Anqa: A bird that people no longer have any information about, but its name. It is said, it was rather named as such, because of some whiteness surrounding its neck as a collar."}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lane |first1=Edward William |title=Arabic-English Lexicon |date=1863 |publisher=Cosimo Classics |location=London |isbn=9781616408985 |page=2244 |url=http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Lane// |access-date=3 October 2019}}</ref> [[Zakariya al-Qazwini]] in this cosmological book ''[[ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt|The Wonders of Creation]]'' comments about the anqa as "the kin of birds that lived alone on [[Mount Qaf]]" and "a wise bird with experience gained throughout many ages and gives admonitions and moral advice".<ref name="wonders">{{cite book |last1=Qazwīnī |first1=Zakarīyā Ibn-Muḥammad al- |title=Kosmographie: ¬Die Wunder der Schöpfung |date=1849 |publisher=Dieterich |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCk-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PT152 |access-date=3 October 2019 |language=ar}}</ref> Qazwini also says that the bird lives for 1700 years, mating at 500 years of age and that the chick, after the egg breaks, stays inside and only comes out after 125 years.<ref name="wonders"/>