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روق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 روّق ذ , (JK, S, Msb,) inf.n. تَرْوِيقٌ, (S, K,) He cleared, or clarified, (S, Msb, K,) wine, or beverage, (S,) or water; (Msb;) he cleared, or clarified, wine, or beverage, with the رَاوُوق. (JK, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He (a drunken man) made water in his clothes. (AHn, K, TA.) -A2- روّق البَيْتَ, (JK, TA,) inf. n. as above, (JK,) He made, or put, to the tent, a رِوَاق, (JK, TA,) meaning a curtain extended below the roof. (TA. [See رِوَاقٌ.]) ― -b2- Hence, (Har p. 50,) روّق اللَّيْلُ (assumed tropical:) The night extended the رِوَاق [or curtain ] of its darkness; (S, Msb, Har ubi suprà, TA;) became dark; (Har, TA;) as also ↓ أَرْوَقَ. (TA.) -A3- تَرْوِيقٌ also signifies The selling a commodity and buying one better than it, (IAar, K, TA,) or longer than it, and better: (TA:) or the selling an old and wornout thing and buying a new one: (Th, TA:) or the selling one's garment, and adding something to it, and buying [ with that garment and the thing added to it ] another garment better than it: (JK:) [or the buying, with a thing and something added thereto, a better thing: for] one says, بَاعَ سِلْعَتَهُ فَرَوَّقَ [ He sold his commodity, and bought with it and something added thereto a better commodity ]. (TA.) ― -b2- One says also, رَوَّقَ لِفُلَانٍ فِى سِلْعَتِهِ He named a high price to such a one for his commodity, not desiring it [ himself, but app. desiring to induce another to give a high price for it ]. (JK, K: expl. in the former by رَفَعَ لَهُ فِى سَوْمِهَا وَ لَا يُرِيدُهَا; and in the latter by رَفَعَ لَهُ فِى ثَمَنِهَا وَ هُوَ لَا يُرِيدُهَا.)

Derived headwords

روّقverb
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روّق البَيْتَ
روّق اللَّيْلُ
بَاعَ سِلْعَتَهُ فَرَوَّقَ
رَوَّقَ لِفُلَانٍ فِى سِلْعَتِهِ
رَفَعَ لَهُ فِى سَوْمِهَا وَ لَا يُرِيدُهَا
رَفَعَ لَهُ فِى ثَمَنِهَا وَ هُوَ لَا يُرِيدُهَا