ركو

رَكْوَةٌ ذ (S, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.) and رِكْوَةٌ and رُكْوَةٌ, (K,) all well known, but the first is the most chaste, (MF,) A certain thing for water: (S:) it is [ a small drinking-vessel ] like a تَوْر, of leather; (ISd, TA;) a small drinking-vessel of skin: (Nh, TA:) or a small دَلْو [or bucket, generally of leather ], (Mgh, Msb,) well known: (Msb:) all of these explanations have been strangely neglected by the author of the K: (TA:) pl. رِكَاآءٌ (S, Mgh, Msb) and رَكَوَاتٌ; (S,) Msb;) the latter allowable. (Msb.) The prov. (S) صَارَتِ القَوْسُ رَكْوَةً [lit. The bow became a ركوة, app. meaning the bow became exchanged for a vessel such as is called ركوة, but see what follows,] is applied in relation to the retiring of good fortune, and reverse in the state of affairs. (S, K.) ― -b2- A small زَوْرَق [or skiff ]. (ISd, K.) ― -b3- A رُقْعَة [or piece of cloth, or rag, ] beneath the عَوَاصِر, (K,) which means three stones [ with which grapes are pressed so as to force out the juice, ] placed one above another: so in the M. (TA.) [Hence, accord. to the TK, the prov. above mentioned: but I see not why.] ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) The فَلْهَم of a woman; i. e. her فَرْج [or vulva ]: so in the copies of the K: but in the T, her قُلْفَة [i. e. the prepuce of the clitoris ], on the authority of IAar; as being likened to the ركوة of water: (TA:) the pl. [app. in all its senses] is رِكَاآءٌ and رَكَوَاتٌ [as above], (K,) or in the last sense رُكًى. (TA.)