Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

رَحًى رَقْدِيَّةٌ ذ : see أَرْحَاآءُ رَقْدٍ, above.

رَقُودٌ ذ and ↓ رَقَّادٌ (A) and ↓ يَرْقُودٌ (K) [all signify the same; i. e. A man who sleeps much; as the last is expl. in the K and so ↓ رُقَدَةٌ; as Golius says on the authority of a gloss. in the KL: or] رَقُودٌ signifies a man always sleeping; as also ↓ مِرْقِدَّى. (TA.) [Hence,] اِمْرَأَةٌ رَقُودُ الضُّحَى [ A woman who sleeps much in the morning after sunrise; meaning] (tropical:) a woman that leads an easy, and a soft, or delicate, life; and so نَؤُومُ الضُّحَى. (A.)

رَقَّادٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

[ رَاقِدٌ ذ act. part. n. of 1:] رُقَّدٌ [is its pl., and] signifies Persons sleeping; as also رُقُودٌ; (S, K;) the last occurring in the Kur xviii. 17. (Msb.)

رَاقُودٌ ذ A large vessel of the kind called دَنّ: (K:) or a vessel of the kind so called, (S, K,) or a vessel in form like the دَنّ, (JK,) resembling an اـِرْدَبَّة, (S, A.) long in the lower part, (JK, S, K,) smeared inside with pitch: (S, A, K:) or an oblong earthen jar, smeared with pitch: (TA:) an arabicized word: (S:) pl. رَوَاقِيدُ. (JK, S.) ― -b2- And A certain fish, (JK, K,) small, (K,) of the size of the finger, and round; (JK;) found in the sea. (TA.)

مَرْقَدٌ ذ A sleeping-place: (S, A, K:) pl. مَرَاقِدُ. (A.) You say, بَعَثَهُ مِنْ مَرْقَدِهِ [ He roused him from his sleeping-place ]. (A.) And أَخَذُوا مَرَاقِدَهُمْ [ They took their sleeping-places ]. (A.) ― -b2- It seems, from the manner in which it is used in the Kur xxxvi. 52, [like the former of the two exs. mentioned above,] that it may perhaps also be an inf. n. (TA.)

مُرْقِدٌ ذ A medicine that causes him who drinks it to sleep (S, K. [In a copy of the A ↓ مُرَقِّدٌ; and thus pronounced in the present day.]) ― -b2- Also A conspicuous road: (JK, K;) thus on the authority of As; but ISd says, “ I know not how it is: ” and others say that it is ↓ مُرَقِّدٌ. (TA.)

مُرَقِّدٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

مِرْقِدَّى ذ : see رَقُودٌ. ― -b2- Also A man quick in his affairs. (S, K.)

يَرْقُودٌ ذ : see رَقُودٌ.

1 رَقَشَ ذ , (A,) aor. رَقُسَ , (TK,) inf. n. رَقْشٌ, (S, M, A, K,) He variegated; coloured with two or more colours; decorated; embellished; syn. نَقَشَ; (S, * A, K; *) and زَيَّنَ; as also ↓ رقّش; (Har p. 57;) and ↓ تَرَقَّشَ. (So in a copy of the A: [but I think that this is a mistranscription, for رَقَّشَ.]) ― -b2- He wrote: (M, TA:) and he pointed, or dotted, (As, M, TA,) characters, and writing: (As, TA:) as also ↓ رقَّش, inf. n. تَرْقِيشٌ; in both senses: and ↓ the latter, he wrote upon, or in, papers or the like, or books. (M, TA.)

2 رقّش ذ , inf. n. تَرْقِيشٌ: see 1, in three places. ― -b2- He embellished his speech: or embellished it with lies: syn. حَسَّنَ, and زَوَّقَ: (TA:) or زَيَّنَ, (A,) and زَوَّرَ, (S, K,) and زَخْرَفَ. (S, A, K.) ― -b3- Hence, (A, TA,) (tropical:) He made known, divulged, or told, discourse, or conversation, in a malicious or mischievous manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like; (S, A, TA;) because he who does so embellishes his speech, or embel-lishes it with lies: (A, TA:) he told a calumny to the object thereof. (M.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) He excited discord, dissension, or animosity. (M.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) He blamed, reproved, or chid; syn. عَاتَبَ. (M, TA.)

5 ترقّش ذ He adorned himself: (A, K:) he displayed his beauty, or goodliness. (A, TA.) -A2- See also 1.

8 ارتقشوا ذ (assumed tropical:) They became mixed together in fight. (AA, K.)

رَقَشٌ ذ A good, or beautiful, خَطّ [i. e. character, or handwriting ]. (TA.) [See also رُقَيْشٌ: and see 1.] -A2- Also Food. (M.)

رَقَشٌ ذ and ↓ رُقْشَةٌ A colour in which are [ intermixed ] duskiness, or dinginess, and blackness; and the like of those two hues. (M.) [See أَرْقَشُ.]

رُقْشَةٌ ذ : see what next precedes.

رَقَاشٌ ذ The serpent: (A, Sgh, K:) app. because of the رُقْشَة [see رَقَشٌ] upon his back: (TA:) or a serpent speckled with black and white [like حَيَّةٌ رَقْشَاآءُ]. (A.)

رُقَيْشٌ ذ dim. of رَقْشٌ, signifying The pointing, or dotting, of characters and writing: (As, TA:) or of أَرْقَشُ; as also ↓ أُرَيْقِشُ [so in the TA, but in some copies of the K, أُرَيْقِشٌ]: (AHát, K:) the latter is allowable. (A Hát.)

أَرْقَشُ ذ ; fem. رَقْشَاآءُ; (S, M, &c.;) pl. رُقْشٌ; (A;) Variegated with duskiness, or dinginess, and blackness; or the like of those two hues; applied to the [species of locust called] جُنْدَب: (M, TA:) and the fem., applied to a serpent (حَيَّة), (S, M, IAth, K,) signifies the same: (M:) or speckled with black and white; (S, K;) and so when applied to a she-goat: (IAar, M:) or, applied to a serpent, it signifies one of the viper-species (أَفْعًى); because of the lines and specks upon its back: (IAth:) and أَرْقَشُ الأُذُنَيْنِ having his ears variegated with black and white, and the rest of his hair black; applied to a kid. (S.) ― -b2- Also the fem., A small creeping thing (M, K) that is found in herbs, a variegated and beautiful worm, (M,) resembling [ another small creeping thing called ] the حُمْطُوط, (M, K,) speckled with red and yellow. (IDrd, TA.) Sgh., or his copyist, has corrupted حمطوط into خُطُوط. (TA.) ― -b3- Also the fem., The شِقْشِقَة [i. e. the bursa faucium, or faucial bag, ] of the camel: (S, A, K:) or the شقشقة of the camel is sometimes رقشاآء, having in it a mixture of colours. (IDrd.)

أُرَيْقِشُ ذ : see رُقَيْشٌ.

1 رَقَصَ ذ , (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. رَقُصَ , (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. رَقْصٌ, (S, M, Msb, CK,) or رَقَصٌ, of the measure فَعَلٌ, like طَرَدٌ and حَلَبٌ, inf. ns. of طَرَدَ and حَلَبَ, (IDrd, IB, TA,) [ He danced; this is what is meant by the explanation] he played, or sported; syn. لَعِبَ: (A, K:) said of a رَقَّاص [or dancer], (A, K,) or of a لَعَّاب [or player or sporter], (M,) and of a مُخَنَّث [or effeminate man, or one who affects the manners &c. of women], and of a صُوفِىّ [or mystic, in a choral celebration of the praises of God, which is termed a ذِكْر, performed by certain orders of darweeshes, all of whom, more or less, pretend to be mystics]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also رَقَصَ, (Lth, A,) aor. رَقُصَ , (Lth,) inf. n. رَقْصٌ (Lth, M, A, K) and رَقَصٌ, (Lth, M, K,) or the latter only, (IDrd, Ibn-Málik, TA,) and رَقَصَانٌ, (Lth, M, A, K,) (tropical:) He (a camel, A, TA) went the pace, or in the manner, termed خَبَبٌ; [i. e. ambled; ] (Lth, M, A, K, TA;) or went in a manner which was a kind of خَبَب: or went quickly. (TA.) One does not say يَرْقُصُ [in speaking of any animate being] except of a player or sporter and of a camel (Lth, K, * TA) and the like: (Lth, TA:) in relation to others, one uses the terms قَقْزٌ and نَقْزٌ: (Lth, K, TA:) or sometimes, (Lth, TA,) ― -b3- it is also said of an ass, meaning (tropical:) He played with his she-ass. (Lth, A, TA.) ― -b4- You say also, رَقَصَ فُؤَادُهُ بَيْنَ جَنَاحَيْهِ مِنَ الفَزَعِ (tropical:) [ His heart throbbed, or leapt, between his two sides, by reason of fright ]. (A.) ― -b5- رَقَصَ also signifies (tropical:) It (wine, S, K, and the beverage called نَبِيذ, A) estuated: (A, K:) or began to do so. (S, A.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) It (the mirage) was, or became, in a state of commotion; [ it danced; ] (S, M, A, K;) and so it signifies when said of bubbles (حَبَاب). (M.) You say, أَنَيْتُهُ حِينَ رَقَصَ السَّرَابُ (A) or الاآلُ (TA) (tropical:) [ I came to him when the mirage danced; in the heat of the day]. ― -b7- And (tropical:) He hasted, or was quick, فِى كَلَامِهِ in his speech. (A, TA.) You say also, لَهُ رَقْصٌ فِى القَوْلِ (tropical:) He has a haste in speech. (A, TA.) ― -b8- [And (tropical:) He spoke evil against another.] You say, سَمِعْتُ رَقْصَ النَّاسِ عَلَيْنَا (tropical:) I heard the evil speaking of the people against us. (A, TA.)

2 رَقَّصَ see 4, in two places.

4 ارقصهُ ذ [ He made him to dance; or to play, or sport; ] trans. of 1. (Msb.) You say, أَرْقَصَتْ وَلَدَهَا, (S, A,) or صَبِيَّهَا, (M,) She (a woman, S, M) [ danced, or dandled, her child; or] made her child to leap or spring or bound [in her arms or on her knee]; (S, M;) as also ↓ رقّصتهُ, (S, M, A,) inf. n. تَرْقِيصٌ: (S, A:) or the latter verb has an intensive signification. (Msb.) ― -b2- ارقص بَعِيرَهُ (tropical:) He made his camel to go in the [ ambling ] manner termed خَبَبٌ: (S, M, A, K:) and the same, (TA,) or ↓ رقّصهُ, (M,) he made him (i. e. his camel) to leap, spring, or bound. (M, TA.) -A2- See also 5.

5 ترقّص ذ [lit., He, or it, became danced or dandled. ― -b2- And hence,] (tropical:) He, or it, became raised and lowered; or rose and sank; or went up and down. (K, TA.) You say, ترقّصوا فِى مَسِيرِهِمْ (tropical:) They went up and down in their journeying; (A;) as also ↓ ارقصوا. (A, TA.) And Er-Rá'ee uses the phrase تَرَقَّصَتِ المَفَازَةُ, meaning, (tropical:) The desert [in appearance] went up and down; the mirage, only, making it [seem] to rise and sink. (TA.)

[ رَقْصَةٌ ذ A dance, or a dancing: pl. رَقَصَاتٌ. See an ex. voce قَرْصَةٌ.]

رَقَّاصٌ ذ [ A dancer; a player, or sporter: one who dances, or plays, or sports, much, or often ]: (S, A, Msb, K:) an intensive epithet. (Msb.)

رَقَّاصَةٌ ذ [ A female dancer ]. ― -b2- A certain game of the Arabs. (IF, K.) -A2- أَرْضٌ رَقَّاصَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Land that does not give growth to anything, though rained upon. (K.)

رَاقِصٌ ذ [A man dancing; playing, or sporting ]. (Msb.) ― -b2- الرَّاقِصُ The star [ μ ] on the tongue of التِّنِّين [or Draco ]. (Kzw.)

كَلَامٌ مُرْقِصٌ ذ (tropical:) Speech, or language, that makes one to be affected with a lively emotion of joy, or of grief. (TA.) You say also, هٰذِهِ مُرْقِصَةُ الصُّوفِيَّةِ [app. meaning, (assumed tropical:) This is that poem, or ode, which makes the mystics to dance; or to be affected with a lively emotion of joy: for darweeshes are often seen to be excited to frantic ecstasy, or ecstatic catalepsy, by certain love-songs designed to have a mystic religious sense]. (TA.) ― -b2- فَلَاةٌ مُرْقِصَةٌ (tropical:) A desert that makes the traverser thereof to hasten, or go quickly. (A, TA.)

مِرْقَصٌ ذ (tropical:) A camel that goes much, or often, in the [ ambling ] manner termed خَبَبٌ (M, TA.)

2 رَقَّطْتُ عَلَى ثَوْبِى ذ (tropical:) I made specks, or small spots, [with ink or the like, (see 5,)] upon my garment; syn. نَقَّطْتُ. (A, TA.)

5 ترقّط ثَوْبُهُ ذ (tropical:) His garment became sprinkled with specks, or small spots, of ink or the like. (K, TA.)

9 ارقطّ ذ , (S, K,) inf. n. اِرْقِطَاطٌ, (S,) He, or it, was, or became, of a black colour speckled with white: or the reverse: (K:) [or speckled with white, and black, and red, and yellow: (see رُقْطَةٌ:)] as also ↓ ارقاطّ, (K,) inf. n. اِرْقِيطَاطٌ: (TA:) or the former, he (a sheep, or goat,) was, or became, such as is termed أَبْغَث. (S.) ― -b2- It (the stalk, or twig, of the عَرْفَج) put forth its leaves, and what resembled nails (أَظَافِير) were seen in the place of separation (مُتَفَرَّق) of its stalks, or twigs, and internodal portions; as also ↓ the latter verb: (K, * TA:) this is said to be after what is termed تَثْقِيبٌ and قَمَلٌ, and before what is termed اـِدْبَاآءٌ and اـِخْوَاصٌ: (TA:) or ↓ the latter verb, said of the عرفج, signifies it put forth its leaves; and this it does before its اـِدْبَاآء: (S:) [see عَرْفَجٌ:] in a trad. occurs the expression ارقاطّ عَوْسَجُهَا; but El-Kutabee thinks that it should be عَرْفَجُهَا. (TA.)

11 اـِرْقَاْطَّ see 9, in three places.

رَقْطٌ ذ A dotting, or speckling: pl. أَرْقَاطٌ. (O.)

رُقْطَةٌ ذ Blackness mixed with speckles of white: (S, K:) or the reverse: (M, K:) or speckles of white, and of black, and of red, and of yellow, in an animal: (A, TA:) and the state, or quality, denoted by the epithet أَرْقَطُ. (TA.)

أَرْقَطُ ذ Black speckled with white: or the reverse: fem. رَقْطَاآءُ. (K.) Applied to a sheep or goat, Like, (S,) or syn. with, (K,) أَبْغَثُ: (S, K:) or speckled with black and white. (Har p. 303.) And the fem., applied to a domestic fowl or hen (دَجَاجَة), Black speckled with white: (S:) or party-coloured: (K:) or having patches of white and black: much sought after, and used, by enchanters; and rarely found. (TA.) ― -b2- It is also applied to a man. (TA.) ― -b3- And the fem. is applied to a tract (رِسَالَةٌ), and to an ode (قَصِيدَةٌ), as meaning Having one of the letters of a word thereof dotted, and another not dotted: from the same epithet applied to a sheep or goat. (Har p. 303.) ― -b4- السِّلْسِلَةُ الرَّقْطَاآءُ A certain reptile; the most malignant of the [ kind of lizards called ] عِظَاآء: when it crawls upon food, it poisons it. (TA.) ― -b5- ثَرِيدَةٌ رَقْطَاآءُ (tropical:) [ A mess of crumbled or broken bread ] having much oil (Sgh, K *) or clarified butter. (TA.) ― -b6- الأَرْقَطُ The leopard: (K:) an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (TA.) ― -b7- الرَّقْطَاآءُ (tropical:) Civil war; conflict and faction; sedition; or the like; syn. الفِتْنَةُ: (K:) because of its variableness: or such as is not universal; likened to a speckled serpent: occurring in a trad. (TA.)

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.)

2 رَقَّعَ see 1, in seven places. ― -b2- رقّع النَّاقَةَ بِالهِنَاآءِ, inf. n. تَرْقِيعٌ, (tropical:) He smeared the traces of mange, or scab, upon the she-camel, one after another, with tar, or liquid pitch. (TA.)

4 ارقع ذ : see 10. ― -b2- Also (tropical:) He (a man, S) acted, or spoke, stupidly, or foolishly. (S, K, TA.)

5 ترقّْ ذ (tropical:) He sought, sought after, or sought to gain, sustenance, or the like; or he applied himself, as to a task, to do so. (K, TA.)

10 استرقع الثَّوْبُ ذ The garment, or piece of cloth, required to be patched; (A, TA;) it was time for it to be patched; (S, K;) as also ↓ أَرْقَعَ. (K.)

رَقْعٌ ذ (TA) and الرَّقْعُ (K, TA) The seventh heaven. (K, TA.) So, accord. to some, in a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abi-s-Salt, [where others read بِرْقِعَ instead of رَقْعًا,] cited voce سَدِرٌ. (TA.) [See also الرَّقِيعُ,]

رَقْعَةٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) The sound of the arrow in, or upon, the butt, or target. (IAar, K, TA.)

رُقْعَةٌ ذ A patch; i. e. a piece of cloth, or rag, with which a garment, or the like, is patched, or pieced, or repaired: (S, Msb, K:) pl. رِقَاعٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and رُقَعٌ. (TA.) Hence the saying, الصَّاحِبُ كَالرُّقْعَةِ فِى الثَّوْبِ فَا@طْلُبْهُ مُشَاكِلًا [ The companion is like the patch in the garment; therefore seek thou the one that is suitable ]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A [ patch, or] trace, or mark, of mange, or scab: (TA:) the commencement of the mange, or scab: (K, TA: [in some copies of the K, الحَرْب is erroneously put for الجَرَب:]) pl. رِقَاعٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) A piece of land, or ground, adjoining another piece [ which is in some manner distinguished therefrom; i. e. a patch of land, or ground: and in like manner, of herbage]: pl. رِقَاعٌ. (TA.) You say, رِقَاعُ الأَرْضِ مُخْتَلِفَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [ The patches of the land, or ground, are various, or diverse ]. (TA.) And هٰذِهِ رُقْعَةٌ مِنَ الكَلَأِ (assumed tropical:) [ This is a patch of herbage ]: and مَا وَجَدْنَا غَيْرَ رِقَاعٍ مِنْ عُشْبٍ (assumed tropical:) [ We found not aught save patches of green herbage ]. (TA.) ― -b5- [ A note, billet, or short letter: and particularly a short written petition or memorial, addressed to a prince or governor: a ticket: a label: ] a certain thing that is written: pl. رِقَاعٌ (S, K) [and accord. to modern usage رُقَعٌ also]. Hence the saying in a trad., يَجِىْءُ أَحَدُكُمْ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ عَلَى رَقَبَتِهِ رِقَاعٌ تَخْفِقُ [ One of you will come, on the day of resurrection, having, suspended upon his neck, billets fluttering ]; meaning, by the رقاع, the claims to be made upon him, or the dues incumbent on him, written on the رقاع. (TA.) ― -b6- A butt, or target, at which to shoot; also termed رُقْعَةُ غَرَضٍ. (TA.) ― -b7- A chess-table; also termed رُقْعَةُ الشِّطْرَنْجِ: so called because it is patched [with squares]. (T A.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) The original matter; the substance; (S, TA;) of a garment, or piece of cloth; (S, TA;) or of a thing: (TA:) or (tropical:) the thickness of a garment, or piece of cloth. (Mgh.) You say, رُقْعَةُ هٰذَا الثَّوْبِ جَيِّدَةٌ (tropical:) The [ substance or] thickness of this garment, or piece of cloth, is good. (Mgh.) ― -b9- [The pl.] رِقَاعٌ also signifies (tropical:) The lining, or casing, which is constructed in the upper part of the interior of a well when one fears its becoming demolished. (TA.) [See رَقَعَ الرِّكِيَّةَ.]

رَقِيعٌ ذ Patched; a garment, or the like, having a piece of cloth put in a place thereof that is cut or rent; (Msb;) as also ↓ مَرْقُوعٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And hence, (O, Msb,) (tropical:) Stupid, foolish, deficient in sense; (S, O, K;) in whose intellect is something needing repair; [so I render فِى عَقْلِهِ مَرَمَّةٌ;] (S, TA;) shattered, or marred, in his intellect; (TA;) as also ↓ أَرْقَعُ, (TA,) and ↓ مَرْقَعَانٌ; (S, K;) or unsound in intellect; likened to a ragged, or old and worn-out, garment; as though patched: (Msb:) or a man whose judgment, and state of affairs or circumstances, have become shattered, disorganized, dissipated, marred, or impaired: (A, TA:) fem. [of ↓ أَرْقَعُ] رَقْعَاآءُ, (K,) but this is post-classical; (L, TA;) and [of مَرْقَعَانٌ] ↓ مَرْقَعَانَةٌ. (K.) ― -b3- Hence also, (TA,) الرَّقِيعُ (tropical:) The first heaven; (K;) i. e. (TA) the heaven of the lower world; (S, TA;) [agreeing with the Hebrew term; an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates; for السَّمَاآءُ الرَّقِيعُ; and therefore, properly, fem.; though an instance occurs of its being used as a masc. noun, as will be seen below;] so called because it is [as though it were] patched with the stars, or with the lights which are therein; as also ↓ الأَرْقَعُ: (TA:) or the heaven, or sky: (Msb, K:) and also each one of the seven heavens; (S;) each of them being a cover to that which is next to it [beneath, so that each, except the highest, is as though it were patched over by the next above it, the highest being in like manner covered over by the كُرْسِىّ,] like as the garment is patched with the رُقْعَة: (TA:) pl. أَرْقِعَةٌ. (S, Mgh, Msb.) It is said in a trad., لَقَدْ حَكَمْتُ بِحُكْمِ ا@للّٰهِ مِنْ فَوْقِ سَبْعَةِ أَرْقِعَةٍ (S, * Mgh) (tropical:) Verily I have decreed by the decree of God written upon the preserved tablet above seven heavens: (Mgh:) the speaker thus making رقيع masc., as though he regarded it as meaning سَقْفٌ. (S, TA.) [See also رَقْعٌ.]

هُوَ رَقَاعِىُّ مَالٍ ذ i. q. رَقَاحِىُّ (tropical:) [ He is a good, or right, orderer, or manager, of property, or of camels, &c.]: because he amends the condition thereof. (TA.)

رَاقِعٌ ذ [act. part. n. of رَقَعَ: see an ex. voce خَرْقٌ]. ― -b2- It is said in a trad., المُؤْمِنُ وَاهٍ رَاقِعٌ فِالسَّعِيدٌ مَنْ هَلَكَ عَلَى رَقْعِهِ (tropical:) The believer is one who becomes unsound in his religion by his disobe- dience, and who repairs it by his repentance: [ therefore the happy is he who dies while he is repairing: ] (TA in the present art.:) i. e., one who offends [and] who repents. (TA in art. وهى.)

أَرْقَعُ ذ : fem. رَقْعَاآءُ: see رَقِيعٌ, in three places. ― -b2- Also, the fem., applied to a ewe, or she-goat, (tropical:) Having a whiteness in her side. (K, TA.) ― -b3- And, applied to a woman, (assumed tropical:) Having no buttocks: (ISk, K:) or slender in the shanks. (TA.) -A2- [Also (assumed tropical:) More, and most, stupid, foolish, or deficient in sense. ] You say, مَا تَحْتَ الرَّقِيعِ أَرْقَعُ مِنْهُ (assumed tropical:) [ There is not beneath the sky a person more stupid, &c., than he ]. (TA.)