عرق

عَارِقٌ ذ [act. part. n. of عَرَقَ]. A poet says, أَكُفُّ لِسَانِى عَنْ صَدِيقِى فَاـِنْ أُجَأْ اـِلَيْهِ فَاـِنِّى عَارِقٌ كُلَّ مَعْرَقِ [ I restrain my tongue from my friend; but if I be compelled to have recourse to him in a case of need, I am one who gnaws to the utmost: مَعْرَق being here an inf. n.]. (S, O: mentioned in both immediately after the explanation of عَرَقْتُ العَظْمَ.) ― -b2- And [the pl.] العَوَارِقُ signifies The أَضْرَاس [i. e. teeth, or lateral teeth, &c.]: (K:) an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (TA.) ― -b3- And The سِنُون [i. e. years, or droughts, or years of drought ]; so called لأَنَّهَا تَعْرُقُ الاـِنْسَانَ, (K, TA, in some copies of the K الأَسْنَانَ,) i. e. because they take from the man [his flesh, or render him lean]. (TA.)