رقق

رَقَّ / رَقِيقٌ

To be or become thin, fine, delicate, flimsy, shallow, or attenuated; رَقِيقٌ denotes something having little thickness or depth and, of bread, something thin and spread out.

Applied to material substances, water, sand, mud, garments, bread, and similar things. This is the physical thinness branch, distinct from later figurative applications.

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رَقَقٌ / رَقِيقٌ

Weakness or abjectness resulting from attenuation, especially weakness of bones or bodily structure; also weak, mean, paltry, or contemptible.

Includes weakened bones and bodily structure and the figurative description of a person or possession as weak or lowly.

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رَقَقٌ / رِقَّةٌ

Paucity, scantness, or a small remaining amount, including scant property, food, sustenance, or years.

A figurative extension of diminution; the evidence applies it to property, food, living, and the remainder of one's years.

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رِقَّةٌ / رَقِيقٌ

Weak-heartedness, fearfulness, bashfulness, or a disposition lacking firmness or resistance.

Used of the soul, heart, or a person's disposition; it can also describe weakness in religion or resolve.

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رَقَّ لَهُ / رَقِيقُ القَلْبِ

To feel compassion, mercy, or pity for someone; tender-hearted or receptive to admonition.

The construction رَقَّ لَهُ takes the person toward whom compassion is felt; tender-heartedness is opposed to hardness or cruelty of heart.

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رَقَّ كَلَامُهُ / رَقِيقُ اللَّفْظِ

Soft, graceful, elegant, easy, sweet, or ornate speech and expression.

Applied to the quality of words, language, or expression rather than to the physical thinness of an object.

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رَقَّ صَوْتُهُ / رَقِيقُ الصَّوْتِ

To have or make a slender, soft, or gentle voice.

A conventional application to the sound or quality of the voice.

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رَقَّتْ حَالُهُ / رِقَّةُ الحَالِ

A narrow, bad, or difficult state of affairs; scant or straitened living.

Used of a person's circumstances, condition, livelihood, or sustenance, not merely of physical thinness.

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رِقٌّ

Slavery, servitude, or the condition of being a slave.

A distinct nominal branch from the parchment sense of رَقٌّ; it denotes the legal or social condition rather than a physical quality.

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رَقَّهُ / مُرَقٌّ

To make, take, keep, or possess someone as a slave; made or kept as a slave.

The transitive verb denotes bringing someone into slavery, while the passive-derived adjective describes the resulting status.

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رَقٌّ

A tortoise or other specified aquatic reptile, including a crocodile in some descriptions.

A zoological homonym; descriptions and classification vary among authorities, and the plural is رُقُوقٌ.

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رُقٌّ

Shallow or non-abundant water; water that has become shallow and has mostly sunk into the earth.

Applied especially to water in a sea, great river, valley, or similar place; related descriptions may refer to water receding or disappearing.

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رِقٌّ

Leaves or easily eaten branches of trees.

A plant-related use describing foliage suitable for cattle to eat.

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رِقٌّ

A certain thorny plant.

A specialized botanical use reported independently from the meaning ‘thin thing’ or ‘leaves’.

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رَقَّةٌ

Land beside a valley over which water spreads and into which it later sinks, producing good herbage.

A geographical term for a water-affected strip or tract beside a valley.

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أَرَقَّ

Of a white grape, to become thin-skinned and rich in juice, or to become fully ripe.

A specialized Form IV use applied to the white grape.

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أَرَقَّتْ بِهِمْ أَخْلَاقُهُمْ

For dispositions to become niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious.

A figurative use describing a change in people's natural dispositions.

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تَرَقَّقَتْهُ

To captivate someone so that his patience or endurance becomes weak.

The construction describes an influence that weakens a person's endurance; the source's illustrative subject does not impose a gender restriction.

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يَتَرَاقُّ

In a traditional idiom, to come to or choose some eventual state or course of mind.

The idiom's derivation is explicitly uncertain; this meaning is retained as a reported lexical use rather than treated as a regular productive sense.

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اِسْتَرَقَّ

Of the night, to pass for the most part.

A figurative Form X use describing the diminution or passing away of a period of time.

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رَقْرَقَهُ / تَرَقْرَقَ

To pour or let a liquid flow in small quantity, to spread it over something, or for a liquid to run easily.

Applied to water and other liquids, including pouring fat or perfume over food or cloth; the intransitive form describes liquid or something similar flowing.

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رَقْرَقَ الخَمْرَ

To mix or dilute wine.

A specialized transitive use applied to wine or a similar liquid.

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رَقْرَقَ عَيْنَهُ / تَرَقْرَقَتْ عَيْنُهُ

To make the eye shed tears, or for tears to gather and move at the inner edge of the eyelid.

The transitive and intransitive usages describe causing tears and the movement of tears respectively.

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رَقْرَقَ

To embellish, invest with charm, or make one thing lead attractively to another.

Used figuratively of speech, allurement, or successive acts of sedition that make one another desirable.

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تَرَقْرَقَ / رَقْرَقَةٌ

To move to and fro, undulate, flicker, or come and go; recurrent or apparent motion.

Applied to water, mirage, clouds, tears, the sun near the horizon, and other things whose motion appears recurrent or wavering.

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تَرَقْرَقَ / رَقْرَاقٌ

To shine, glisten, or appear to shimmer.

Applied to mirage, sunlight, and other shining things; apparent motion and shining may overlap in descriptions of mirage.

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تَرْقِيقُ الكَلَامِ

A graceful or indirect allusion, including using a mild expression such as ‘kissing’ as a euphemism for sexual intercourse.

A conventional rhetorical use: the wording is softened or made courteous while referring indirectly to another act.

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تَرْقِيقٌ

The pronunciation of a sound with a slender quality, opposed to emphatic pronunciation.

A technical recitation term, especially concerning the slender pronunciation of the long fatḥa and of lām, opposed to تَفْخِيمٌ.

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رَقَّقَ المَشْيَ / مَشْيًا رُقَاقًا

To make a gait easy, or to go at an easy pace.

The cited usage is especially applied to the movement of a camel.

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رَقَّقَ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ

To create or excite disorder, disagreement, dissension, or mischief among people.

A causative social use with بَيْنَ describing disruption between or among a group.

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رُقَاقٌ / مُرَقَّقٌ

Thin, flat, expanded bread; a single thin round cake.

رُقَاقٌ may function substantivally, while مُرَقَّقٌ describes bread made thin and broad.

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رَقَاقٌ

A level, broad tract of soft land, often with harder ground beneath it, including a desert tract from which water has sunk.

A geographical term for expanded soft terrain; variants and closely related forms are reported in the same lexical family.

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يَوْمٌ رَقَاقٌ / رَقْرَاقٌ

A hot day.

A conventional descriptive use, apparently associated with the day's bright or intense sunlight.

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رَقْرَاقَةٌ

A woman or girl whose complexion shines or glistens, as though water were running over her face.

A descriptive epithet for a lustrous complexion; the source's gender is intrinsic to this lexical noun, not a restriction on the wider root.

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رُقَارِقٌ

A sword with abundant lustre or wavy markings, or one that shines greatly.

A specialized descriptive use for a sword's surface or brilliance.

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رُقَارِقٌ

A mirage or beverage described as shallow or thin, according to variant readings and interpretations.

The evidence reports a textual and lexical uncertainty between a mirage-related reading and a beverage-related reading; neither is treated as a Quranic use.

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أَرَقُّ / رُقَّى

The finest or most delicate piece of fat; by extension, something easily approached or taken advantage of.

رُقَّى is the feminine form in the cited expression and occurs in a proverb about a person regarded as weak or readily exploitable.

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الرَّقِيقَانِ / مَرَقٌّ

A thin or soft anatomical part, including the regions between the flank and groin, the lower belly, the sides of the nose, or comparable delicate folds and surfaces.

A specialized anatomical use; the exact body region varies by construction and is not reduced to a single modern anatomical term.

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رَقَقٌ / مُرِقٌّ

Thinness or lightness in a horse's hoof.

A specialized zoological description of the hoof rather than a general statement about the animal's condition.

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رِقَّةُ بَطْنٍ

Looseness of the bowels or diarrhea.

A specialized bodily use of رِقَّةٌ in the expression رِقَّةُ بَطْنٍ.

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مَالٌ مُتَرَقْرِقٌ

Cattle disposed or appearing to be near fatness, leanness, or perishing.

A specialized description of a herd's visibly changing or precarious condition.

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مِرْقَاقٌ

A baker's rolling pin or other implement used to make bread thin and flat.

A concrete tool noun derived from the operation of thinning and spreading bread.

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