دق

مَدَاقُّ مداق مدقة [a pl. of which the sing is not mentioned and app. is not used]. You say, يَتَتَبَّعُونَ مَدَاقَّ الأُمُورِ [and الأُمُورِ ↓ دَقَائِقَ (assumed tropical:) They pursue, or investigate, or they seek successively, time after time, or repeatedly, or in a leisurely manner, gradually, step by step, or one thing after another, to obtain a knowledge of, ] the subtilties, niceties, abstrusities, or obscurities, of things, affairs, or cases. (TA.) [And (assumed tropical:) They pursue, &c, the minutiæ of things, affairs, or cases: or small, or little, things &c.; for in the phrase تَتَبَّعَ مَدَاقَّ الأُمُورِ (in the S in art. سف), مداقّ الامور signifies, accord. to the PS, small, or little, things &c.] And you say, أَسَفَّ اـِلَى مَدَاقِّ الكَسْبِ (assumed tropical:) [ He pursued small means of gain ]. (TA in art. دقع.) And أَسَفَّ اـِلَى مَدَاقِّ الأُمُورِ وَأَلَائِمِهَا [lit. (assumed tropical:) He pursued small, or little, things, and the meanest, or most ignoble, thereof ]; meaning he became mean, or ignoble. (M in art. سف.)