عرك

عَرِيكَةٌ ذ A camel's hump: or the remainder thereof: (K:) or عَرِيكَةُ السَّنَامِ signifies what remains of the hump: (ISk, S, O:) so called because the purchaser feels that part (يَعْرُكُهُ) to know the fatness and strength [of the animal]: (TA:) pl. عَرَائِكُ; which is said by some to signify the humps with the backs. (O.) ― -b2- [Hence, in phrases here following,] (assumed tropical:) Nature; natural, native, or innate, disposition or temper or the like; (S, O, K;) and soul, spirit, or mind. (K.) One says, فُلَانٌ لَيِّنُ العَرِيكَةِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is easy, or gentle, (S, O, K, TA,) in natural disposition, (K, TA,) submissive, tractable; (S, * O, * TA;) one whose pride, or haughtiness, has been broken, or subdued; (K, TA;) having little contrariness and aversion: and شَدِيدُ العَرِيكَةِ strong in spirit, incompliant, or resisting: (TA:) and لَانَتْ عَرِيكَتُهُ His pride, or haughtiness, became broken, or subdued: (S, O:) originally relating to the camel; for they used to betake themselves to the camel when he had the disposition of refusing to be ridden or mounted, and incompliance, and cut [a part] in his hump, it being high, difficult to ride upon; and when this was done, he became quiet, and was rendered inclinable, and the part of him that was the place of riding became easy to sit upon; so one said, قَدْ لَانَتْ عَرِيكَتُهُ (Har pp. 566-7.) One says also رَجُلٌ مَيْمُونُ العَرِيكَةِ, meaning [ A man fortunate, happy, or blest, in natural disposition, or] in mind. (TA.)