رقل

رَقْلَةٌ ذ A tall palm-tree: (S, Msb:) or a palmtree exceeding the reach of the hand; (K, * TA;) above such as is termed جَبَّارَة: or this latter word, accord. to As, has this meaning; and the former word, a palm-tree higher than such as [ just ] exceeds the reach of the hand: (TA:) or a palmtree of which the trunk has become such as that one may reach [ the fruit ] from [ the top of ] it: (JK:) pl. رِقَالٌ (JK, S, Msb, K) and رَقَلَاتٌ (Msb) and ↓ رَقْلٌ, (K,) or [rather] of this last it is a n. un. (Msb.) Hence the prov., وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ بِالدَّخْلِ ↓تَرَى الفِتْيَانَ كَالرَّقْلِ [ Thou seest the youths, or young men, like tall palm-trees, &c.; but what will acquaint thee with the vice, &c., that is, or may be, in them?]. (TA. [See also another reading of this verse voce دَخْلٌ.]) [And رَوَاقِلُ, pl. of ↓ رَاقِلٌ, as used by a Hudhalee poet, applied to the trunks of palmtrees, signifies Tall. (“ Abulfedæ Annales, ” vol. i. page 494.)]