Pigeon in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

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Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it is a trustworthy messenger, a truthful friend, and an agreeable beloved.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 93

And perhaps it indicates well-guarded wives who keep secrets and toil for the dependents.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 93

And perhaps it indicates "al-himam," which is death.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 93

And it indicates a woman with dependents and children, or a man with numerous offspring who devotes himself to his household.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 93

And seeing pigeons indicates wailing and the enumeration of the virtues of the dead.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 93

The domesticated pigeon is a beautiful Arab woman, and its eggs are daughters or slave girls, and its dovecote is a gathering place of women, and its chicks are sons.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 93

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

Wilde Pigeons signifye wilde and dissolute women,

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Second Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

and tame Pigeons signifie honest women and Matrons.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Second Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

Especially pleasure in businesse, and in case of frienship, company, and reconciliation, they are good; because they flock together.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Second Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

Kinds and conditions of Pigeon

wood pigeon (warashan)

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

It is, in a dream, a strange, contemptible person.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 371

And it indicates news and messengers, because it was the one that informed Noah (peace be upon him) of the news of the earth and the receding of the water after the Flood.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 371

wild pigeon

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for the wild pigeon, it is interpreted like the interpretation of the domestic pigeon, and perhaps it is a woman.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

wood pigeon

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

(The wood pigeon) is a stranger, and it is said that it is a woman, and it indicates hearing news.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 400–404

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