رقع

1 رَقَعَهُ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) aor. رَقَعَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. رَقْعٌ, (Msb, TA,) He patched it; pieced it; put a piece of cloth in the place thereof that was cut or rent; (Msb;) repaired it, (K,) and closed up the hole or holes thereof, (TA,) with [ a patch or] patches; (S, K;) namely, a garment, or piece of cloth; (S, Msb, K;) and in like manner, a skin, or hide; (TA;) as also ↓ رقّعهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَرْقِيعٌ: (TA:) or ترقيع signifies the patching a garment, or piece of cloth, in several places. (S, TA.) ― -b2- He stopped it up, or closed it up; namely, any hole, or aperture; and so ↓ رقّعهُ; as in the saying of 'Omar Ibn-Abee-Rabee'ah, وَكُنَّ اـِذَا أَبْصَرْنَنِى أَوْسَمِعْنَنِى خَرَجْنَ فَرَقَّعْنَ الكُوَى بِالمَحَاجِرِ [ And they (referring to women) used, when they saw me, or heard me, to come forth, (خَرَجْنَ being used for يَخْرُجْنَ,) and close up the apertures in the walls with the eyes and the parts immediately around them ]. (L.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) [ He repaired it in a figurative sense; as also ↓ رقّعهُ.] You say, يَرْقَعُ دِينَهُ بِتَوْبَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ He repairs his religion by his repentance ]. (TA.) And ↓ رقّع دُنْيَاهُ بَاآخِرَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ He repaired his state, or condition, in the present word by sacrificing his blessings in the world to come ]: whence the saying of 'AbdAllah Ibn-El-Mubárak, نُرَقِّعُ دُنْيَانَا بِتَمْزِيقِ دِينِنَا فَلَاد دِينُنَا يَبْقَى وَلَا مَا نُرَقِّعُ (assumed tropical:) [ We repair our state, or condition, in the present world by the rending, or marring, of our religion, so that neither our religion remains nor what we repair ]. (TA.) And حَالَهُ وَمَعِيشَتَهُ ↓ رقّع (tropical:) He repaired, amended, or put to rights, his state, or condition, and his means of subsistence; syn. أَصْلَحَ, (TA,) and رَقَّحَ: (K, * TA:) with which latter ↓ رقّع is also syn. as signifying (tropical:) he gained, acquired, or earned, property; accord. to an explanation of its inf. n., ترقيع. (TA.) And يَصِلُ الكَلَامَ فَيَرْقَعُ بَعْضَهُ بِبَعْضٍ (tropical:) [ He connects the language, and repairs one part thereof by inserting another ]: said of a poet. (TA.) And ↓ تَرْقِيعٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) [The act of interpolating: or] the adding to a tradition, or story, or narrative. (TA.) ― -b4- ↓ مَا رَقَعَ مَرْقَعًا [lit. He did not patch a place of patching, or place to be patched; ] means (tropical:) he did not, or made not, or wrought not, anything. (TA.) ― -b5- كَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ يَلْقَمُ بِيَدٍ وَيَرْقَعُ بِأُخْرَى (assumed tropical:) [ Mo'áwiyeh used to put morsels into his mouth with one hand, ] and spread another hand in order that the portions of his morsels that fell might become scattered upon it. (IAth, Sgh, K.) ― -b6- رَقَعَ الرَّكِيَّةَ, (Ibn-' Abbád, K,) and رَقَعَهَا بِالرِّقَاعِ, inf. n. رَقْعٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) He lined, or cased, the interior of the well for the space of the stature of a man, or twice that measure, fearing its becoming demolished, (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA,) in its upper part. (TA.) ― -b7- رَقَعَ خَلَّةَ الفَارِسِ [lit. He closed up the interval between him and the horseman; ] means (tropical:) he reached, or overtook, the horseman, and pierced him, or thrust him; الخَلَّةُ signifying the interval, or intervening space, between the piercer, or thruster, and the pierced, or thrust. (O, K, TA.) ― -b8- رَقَعَ الغَرَضَ بِسَهْمٍ, [and الرَّقْعَةَ,] (tropical:) He hit, or struck, the butt, or target, with an arrow. (K, TA.) رَقْعُ رُقْعَةٍ also signifies (assumed tropical:) Any hitting, or striking. (TA.) And رَقَعَ (assumed tropical:) He struck, or beat, in any manner; with a whip; and otherwise; as in the phrases رَقَعَهُ كَفًّا (assumed tropical:) [ He struck him a slap with the hand ]; and هُوَ يَرْقَعُ الأَرْضَ بِرِجْلِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ He beats the ground with his foot ]. (TA.) And رَقَعَ الشَّيْخُ (tropical:) The old man supported himself, or bore, upon his two palms, [as though meaning he struck the ground with the palms of his hands, ] in order to rise. (TA.) ― -b9- [And hence,] رَقَعَهُ, (S, K,) or رَقَعَهُ بقَوْلِهِ, (TA,) (tropical:) He censured him, reviled him, or satirized him. (S, K, TA.) -A2- رَقُعَ, (S, TA,) inf. n. رَقَاعَةٌ, (S, K,) (tropical:) He was, or became, stupid, foolish, deficient in sense; (S, K, TA;) shattered, or marred, in his intellect; (TA;) such as is termed رَقِيع. (S.)