رقم

مِرْقَمٌ ذ A writing-reed; (K) because it is an instrument for الرَّقْم, i. e. writing: (TA:) also called ↓ أَرْقَمُ [app. because partly blackened with ink]. (Z, TA.) One says to him who is vehemently angry, (K, TA,) extravagantly, or immoderately, so, (TA,) طَغَا مِرْقَمُكَ, (assumed tropical:) [signifying Thy pen has exceeded its due limit ], (K, TA,) in some of the lexicons طَمَا, (TA,) and جَاشَ مرقمك, (K,) and عَلَا, or غَلَا, accord. to different copies of the K, and فَاضَ, (TA,) and طَفَحَ, and اِرْتَفَعَ, and قَذَفَ مرقمك: (K, TA:) all [virtually] meaning the same. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A thing with which bread is marked (يُنْقَشُ); (TA;) like مِنْسَغَةٌ; in Pers. called Pَرِ نَانْ [i. e. a feather, or bundle of feathers, with which bread is pricked by the maker ]: pl. مَرَاقِمُ. (MA.)