Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

مُرْتَقًى ذ : see مَرْقًى, in two places; and see an ex. in the first sentence of this article.

1 رَكَّ ذ , (S, K,) aor. يَرِكُّ, (K, JM, TA, in the CK يَرَكُّ,) inf. n. رَكَاكَةٌ (K, JM) [and app. رُكُوكَةٌ, q. v. infrà,] and رَكٌّ, (CK, [but not in the TA nor in my MS. copy of the K,]) or ركّة [i. e. رِكَّةٌ, like رِقَّةٌ and دِقَّةٌ, with both of which it is syn.], (JM,) It (a thing, S) was, or became, weak, or feeble; syn. ضَعُفَ: and thin, or of little thickness or depth; syn. رَقَّ: (S, K:) [and little, or small, in quantity; and slender: and (assumed tropical:) feeble, or weak, and incorrect; said of a word or an expression: (see the part. n. رَكِيكٌ:) and (assumed tropical:) unsound, invalid, or incorrect; said of information, an announcement, &c.; as is shown by what follows.] Hence the saying, اِقْطَعْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ رَكَّ [ Cut thou it off from where it is weak, or thin ]: for which the vulgar say, من حيث رَقَّ. (S.) [And hence also the saying,] فِى هٰذَا الخَبَرِ رَكَاكَةٌ (assumed tropical:) In this information, announcement, piece of news, or narration, is unsoundness, invalidity, or incorrectness; and so, فِيهِ رَثَاثَةٌ. (A and TA in art. رث.) -A2- رَكَّ الشَّىْءَ بَعْضَهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ, (S,) or simply رَكَّهُ, aor. رَكُ3َ , (K,) inf. n. رَكٌّ, (TA,) He threw one part of the thing upon another. (S, K.) ― -b2- رَكَكْتُ الغُلَّ فِى عُنُقِهِ, aor. رَكُ3َ , inf. n. رَكٌّ, [ I put the غُلّ (or iron collar ) upon his neck, and inserted his hand in it; or] I confined his hand to his neck by means of the غُلّ. (S.) ― -b3- [Hence,] رَكَكْتُ الذَّنْبَ فِى عُنُقِهِ i. q. أَلْزَمْتُهُ اـِيَّاهُ (assumed tropical:) [ I attached to him responsibility for the sin, crime, or misdeed ]. (S, K. *) And رَكَكْتُ هٰذَا الحَقَّ فِى عُنُقِهِ [in like manner] means أَلْزَمْتُهُ اـِيَّاهُ (assumed tropical:) [ I attached to him responsibility for the rendering of this right, or due ]. (Lth, TA.) ― -b4- And رَكَّ الأَمْرَ, aor. رَكُ3َ , inf. n. رَكٌّ, i. q. رَدَّ بَعْضَهُ عَلَى بَعْضٍ (assumed tropical:) [ He reversed the order of parts, or of the parts, of the affair, or case ]. (TA.) -A3- رَكَّ الشَّىْءَ بِيَدِهِ, (IDrd, K,) [aor. رَكُ3َ ,] inf. n. رَكٌّ, (IDrd, TA,) He felt the thing, or pressed it lightly, with his hand, in order that he might know its bulk. (IDrd, K, * TA.) ― -b2- And رَكَّ المَرْأَةَ, (IDrd, K,) inf. n. as above, (IDrd, TA,) He compressed the woman, and distressed her, or fatigued her, in so doing; (IDrd, K, * TA:) and so بَكَّهَا, inf. n. بَكٌّ; and دَكَّهَا, inf. n. دَكٌّ. (IDrd, TA.) -A4- رَكَّ ا@للّٰهُ نَمَاآءَهُ God lessened, or diminished, or may God lessen, or diminish, his, or its, increase. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.)

2 رَكَّ3َ see 4, in two places.

4 أَرَكَّتِ السَّمَاآءُ ذ The sky rained such rain as is termed رِكّ; (S, K;) as also ↓ رَكَّكَت. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.) ― -b2- And أُرِكَّتِ الأَرْضُ The land was rained upon with such rain as is termed رِكّ, (S,) or with such rains as are termed رِكَاك; as also ↓ رُكِّكَت. (TA.)

8 ارتكّ ذ , (K,) inf. n. اِرْتِكَاكٌ, (TA,) [ He was indistinct in his speech; said of a drunken man: (see its part. n., مُرْتَكٌّ, below:) or,] though seen to be eloquent [ when alone (see again the part. n.)], he was impotent in speech in a case of altercation: (K:) or he was, or became, weak, or feeble; (TA;) [like رَكَّ.] ― -b2- ارتكَ فِى أَمْرِهِ He doubted in, or respecting, his affair, or case. (Yaakoob, K.) ― -b3- ارتكَ is also syn. with اِرْتَجَّ [ He, or it, was, or became, in a state of commotion or agitation; or of convulsion, or violent motion; or shook, quaked, or quivered ]: (K:) accord. to Yaakoob, it is an instance of substitution [of ك for ج]. (TA.) One says, مَرَّ يَرْتَكُّ [ He passed by in a state of commotion &c.]. (TA.)

10 استركّهُ ذ He esteemed him weak, or feeble. (S, K.)

R. Q. 1 رَكْرَكَ ذ He was, or became, cowardly, or weak-hearted. (IAar, TA.) [See also رَكْرَكَةٌ, its inf. n., below.]

R. Q. 2 تَرَكْرُكُهُ ذ , (K,) relating to a skin [of milk], (TA,) means تَمَخُّضُهُ [i. e. Its being agitated ] with the butter. (K, TA. [In the CK, تَرَكْرَكَهُ and تَمَخَّضَهُ are put for تَرَكْرُكُهُ and تَمَخُّضُهُ.])

رَكٌّ ذ : see the next paragraph.

رِكٌّ ذ , with kesr, Lean, or emaciated: mentioned by J [and in the K] in art. زك, [and there written زَكّ,] but Sgh says that this is a mistranscription, and that it is correctly with ر [and with kesr]; (TA in the present art.;) and Az says that زكّ is a mistake, and is correctly with ر. (TA in art. زك.) -A2- Also, (S, K,) and ↓ رَكٌّ and ↓ رَكِيكَةٌ, (K,) Weak rain: (T, S:) or rain little in quantity: [and ↓ رَكَّةٌ is expl. in like manner by Freytag, as meaning pluvia tennis, pauca; but it seems to be a n. un. of رَكٌّ, and so ↓ رِكَّةٌ of رِكٌّ:] or exceeding what is termed دَثٌّ [q. v.]: (K:) accord. to IAar, the first [or lightest and weakest] of rain is that called رَشٌّ; then, the طَشّ; then, the بَغْش; and then, the رِكّ: (TA:) or the طَشّ exceeds the رِكّ: (TA in art. طش:) the pl. [of pauc. of ركّ] is أَرْكَاكٌ (K) and رِكَاكٌ (S, K) and رِكَّانٌ; (Sgh, TA;) and the pl. of ↓ رَكِيكَةٌ is رَكَائِكُ. (TA.) ― -b2- رِكٌّ applied to a land, or a place: see مُرَكٌّ.

رَكَّةٌ ذ and رِكَّةٌ: see رِكٌّ.

رُكَاكٌ ذ : see the next paragraph.

رَكِيكٌ ذ Weak, or feeble: (S, JM, KL:) so as applied to a man: (TA:) and thin, or of little thickness or depth: (JM:) anything little, or small, in quantity; and slender: applied to water [that is little in quantity, and shallow ], and to herbage, and to science: (Sh, TA:) feeble, or weak, and incorrect; applied to a word or an expression; (PS in art. جزل;) contr. of جَزْلٌ: (S and K in that art.:) [and unsound, invalid, or incorrect; applied to information, an announcement, &c.: see 1.] You say ثَوْبٌ رَكِيكُ النَّسْجِ A garment, or piece of cloth, weak in respect of texture. (S, * TA.) And اـِنَّهُ يُبْغِضُ الوُلَاةَ الرَّكَكَةَ [ Verily he hates weak rulers, or magistrates ]: occurring in a trad.: رَكَكَةٌ being pl. of رَكِيكٌ, like as [its syn.] ضَعَفَةٌ is pl. of ضَعِيفٌ. (TA. [See also a similar saying in what follows.]) And رَجُلٌ رَكِيكُ العِلْمِ, (K,) and العَقْلِ, (TA,) A man having little knowledge, (K,) and intelligence. (TA.) And رَكِيكٌ and ↓ رُكَاكٌ, (K,) the latter of which has a stronger signification than the former, like طُوَالٌ in relation to طَوِيلٌ, (TA,) and ↓ رُكَاكَةٌ, (K,) which has a still stronger signification, (TA,) and ↓ أَرَكُّ, (K,) all applied to a man, (TA,) signify Low, ignoble, vile, mean, sordid, or possessing no manly qualities; weak in his intellect, and in his judgment or opinion: or one who is not jealous (K, TA) of his wife; i. q. دَيُّوثٌ: (TA:) or one who is not revered, respected, or feared, by his wife, or his family: (K:) accord. to AZ, رَكِيكٌ and ↓ رُكَاكَةٌ signify one esteemed weak by the women, not revered or respected or feared by them, and not jealous of them: (TA:) the epithet similarly applied to a woman is رَكِيكٌ likewise, and ↓ رُكَاكَةٌ: and the pl. is رِكَاكٌ. (K.) It is said in a trad., ↓ اـِنَّهُ لَعَنَ الرُّكَاكَةَ, (S, * TA, [in one of my copies of the S written الرَّكَاكَةَ, and in the other copy without the vowel-signs,]) meaning Verily he cursed him who is not jealous of his wife. (S.) And in another trad., اـِنَّ ا@للّٰهَ يُبْغِضُ ↓ السُّلْطَانَ الرُّكَاكَةَ, i. e. [ Verily God hateth the sovereign, or ruling, power ] that is weak. (TA.) ― -b2- رَكِيكَةٌ, [fem. of رَكِيكٌ,] as an epithet applied to land: see مُرَكٌّ. -A2- Also Felt, or pressed [ lightly with the hand; see 1]; and so ↓ مَرْكوكٌ. (TA.)

رُكَاكَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph, in five places.

رُكُوكَةٌ ذ [app. an inf. n., see 1, first sentence,] Weakness, or feebleness. (TA. [See also رَكْرَكَةٌ.])

رَكِيكَةٌ ذ , as a subst., see رِكٌّ, in two places.

شَحْمُهُ الرُّكَّى ذ , (so in one of my copies of the S, and in the O, and in my MS. copy of the K,) or شَحْمَةُ الرُّكَّى, (so in one of my copies of the S, and in the TA and CK,) meaning [ His fat is, or a piece of fat of, ] such as melts quickly, is a prov., (S, O, K,) applied to him who does not fatigue, or weary, thee, (لَا يُعَنِّيكَ, so in my copies of the S, or لَا يُعْنِيكَ, so in the O,) or to him who does not aid thee, (لَايُعِينُكَ, so in the TA and CK, [in my MS. copy of the K it reads either لا يُعنيك or لا يُعينك,]) in needful affairs, (S, O, K,) nor avail thee, or profit thee, or stand thee in any stead. (O, TA.) [See also رُقَّى, voce أَرَقُّ.] ― -b2- Accord. to AA, رُكَّى signifies A wide عَفْلَق [or vulva, or flabby vulva ]. (O, TA.)

رَكَّاآءُ ذ The sound of the echo, (K, TA,) which it returns to one from the mountain, imitating what one utters. (TA.)

رَكْرَكَةٌ ذ [inf. n. of R. Q. 1,] Weakness, or feebleness, in anything. (K. [See also رُكُوكَةٌ.])

رَكْرَاكَةٌ ذ A woman large in the posteriors and thighs. (S, K.)

أَرَكُّ ذ : see رَكِيكٌ.

مُرَكٌّ عَلَيْهَا ذ , applied to land (أَرْضٌ), Rained upon with such rain as is termed رِكّ; (K;) as also مُرَكَّةٌ, alone, and ↓ مُرَكَّكَةٌ (TA) and ↓ رَكِيكَةٌ, (K,) the last two meaning also rained upon by such rain as is termed رِكّ and containing but little pasturage, (TA,) and ↓ رِكٌّ, (K,) which last is mentioned by ISh, and explained as meaning a place upon which has fallen only a little, or weak, rain. (O.)

مُرَكَّكَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

مَرْكُوكٌ ذ A سِقَاآء [or skin for milk or water] dressed, or prepared, (عُولِجَ,) and put into a good, or proper, state. (S, K.) ― -b2- See also رَكِيكٌ, last sentence.

مُرْتَكٌّ ذ A soft, or flabby, camel, having diluted marrow (مَمْذُوقُ النِّقْىِ). (O, K. [In the CK, النَّقِىُّ is erroneously put for النِّقْىِ; and in my MS. copy of the K, النقىّ.]) ― -b2- And A drunken man indistinct in his speech: (S:) or a man seen to be eloquent (K, TA) when alone, (TA,) but impotent in speech when he engages in altercation. (K, * TA.)

1 رَكِبَهُ ذ , (S, * A, K,) and رَكِبَ عَلَيْهِ, (A,) aor. رَكَبَ , (A, K,) inf. n. رُكُوبٌ (S, A, K) and مَرْكَبٌ; (A, K;) and ↓ ارتكبهُ; (K;) I. q. عَلَاهُ (A, K, TA) and عَلَا عَلَيْهِ [explained by what follows]. (TA.) You say, رَكِبْتُ الدَّابَّةَ, (Msb,) or الفَرَسَ, (Mgh,) and رَكِبْتُ عَلَيْهَا, [or عَلَيْهِ,] inf. n. رُكُوبٌ and مَرْكَبٌ [as above, meaning I rode, or rode upon, and I mounted, or mounted upon, the beast, or the horse ]. (TA. [See also رَاكِبٌ.]) [And رَكِبْتُ السَّفِينَةَ, or فِى السَّفِينَةِ (agreeably with the Kur xi. 43 and xviii. 70 and xxix. 65), I embarked in the ship; went on board the ship. ] And one says, of anything, رَكِبَهُ [and ↓ ارتكبه] as meaning عَلَاهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, upon, or over, it; got upon it; came, or arose, upon it; overlay it; was, or became, superincumbent, or supernatant, upon it; overspread it ]; namely, another thing. (TA.) [In like manner,] one says also, of anything, رُكِبَ and ↓ اُرْتُكِبَ as meaning عُلِىَ [i. e., when said of a horse or the like, He was ridden, or ridden upon, and was mounted, or mounted upon: whence other significations in other cases, indicated above]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] رَكِبَ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا i. q. ↓ تراكب (tropical:) [ It lay one part upon another; it was, or became, heaped, or piled, up, or together, one part upon, or overlying, another: ] said of fat [as meaning it was, or became, disposed in layers, one above another: see رَاكِبَةٌ]. (A, TA.) [And hence, رَكِبَ النَّاسُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا (assumed tropical:) The people bore, or pressed, or crowded, ( as though mounting, ) one upon another; a phrase well known, and of frequent occurrence: or meaning (assumed tropical:) the people followed one another closely; from what next follows.] ― -b3- رَكِبَهُ also means [(assumed tropical:) He came upon him, or overtook him; or] he followed closely, or immediately, after him: and رَكِبْتُ أَثَرَهُ and طَرِيقَهُ (assumed tropical:) I followed close after him. (L.) ― -b4- [رَكِبَ الطَّرِيقَ, and الرَّمْلَ, and المَفَازَةَ, (assumed tropical:) He went upon, or trod, or travelled, the road, and the sand or sands, and the desert: and رَكِبَ البَحْرَ (assumed tropical:) He embarked, or voyaged, upon the sea. Hence,] رَكِبَ اللَّيْلَ, and الهَوْلَ, (tropical:) [ He ventured upon, encountered, or braved, the night, and that which was terrible or fearful, ] and the like thereof. (TA.) [And رَكِبَ أَمْرًا and ↓ ارتكبهُ (assumed tropical:) He ventured upon, embarked in, or undertook, an affair: and (assumed tropical:) he surmounted it, or mastered it: the former meaning is well known: the latter is indicated by an explanation of the phrase رَكَّابٌ لِلْأُمُورِ, which see below.] And رَكِبَ ذَنْبًا (A, K) and ↓ ارتكبهُ (S, A, MA, K) (tropical:) He committed a sin, or crime, or the like. (S, MA, TA.) And رَكِبَ فُلَانٌ فُلَانًا بِأَمْرٍ (assumed tropical:) [ Such a one did to such a one a thing ]. (TA.) And رَكِبَهُ بِمَكْرُوهٍ and ↓ ارتكبهُ (tropical:) [ He did to him an evil, or abominable, or odious, deed ]. (A.) And رَكِبْتُ الدَّيْنَ and ↓ ارتكبتهُ (tropical:) I became much in debt: and رَكِبَنِى الدَّيْنُ and ↓ ارتكبنى (tropical:) [ Debt burdened me ]. (Msb.) ― -b5- رَكِبَ رَأْسَهُ (tropical:) He went at random, heedlessly, or in a headlong manner, (مَضَى عَلَى وَجْهِهِ, A, Msb,) [i. e.,] without consideration, (A,) or without any certain aim, or object, (Msb,) not obeying a guide to the right course. (A.) You say, يُرْكَبُ رَأْسَهُ لَا يَدْرِى أَيْنَ يَتَوَجَّهُ (assumed tropical:) [ He goes at random, &c., not knowing whither to direct himself ]. (S and K in art. كمه.) [See also رَكْبَةٌ. In like manner also, you say, رَكِبَ رَأْيَهُ (K voce اِسْتَهَجَّ &c.) (assumed tropical:) He followed his own opinion. And رَكِبَ هَوَاهُ (S in art. جمح) (assumed tropical:) He followed his own natural desire, without consideration, and not obeying a guide to the right course of conduct. ] ― -b6- رَكِبْتُ دُبَّتَهُ and دُبَّهُ (assumed tropical:) I kept to his state, or condition, and his way, mode, or manner, of acting &c.; and did as he did. (M in art. دب.) And رَكِبَتْهُ الحُمَّى (assumed tropical:) [ The fever continued upon him ] is a phrase similar to أَغْبَطَتْهُ الحُمَّى and اِمْتَطَتْهُ and اِرْتَحَلَتْهُ. (A and TA in art. غبط) -A2- رَكَبَهُ, aor. رَكُبَ , (S, A, K,) inf. n. رَكْبٌ, (TA,) [from رُكْبَةٌ,] He struck, or smote, his knee: (S, A, K:) or it signifies, (K,) or signifies also, (S, A,) he struck him, or smote him, with his knee: (S, A, K:) or he took him by his hair, (K,) or by the hair of each side of his head, (TA,) and struck his forehead with his knee. (K, TA.) Hence, in a trad., رَكَبْتُ أَنْفَهُ بِرُكْبَتِى I struck his nose with my knee. (TA.) And in another trad., أَمَا تَعْرِفُ الأَزْدَ وَرَكْبَهَا اِتَّقِ الأَزْدَ لَا يَأْخُذُوكَ فَيَرْكُبُوكَ [ Knowest thou not El-Azd, (the tribe so called,) and their striking with the knee? Beware thou of El-Azd, lest they take thee, and strike thee with their knees ]: for this practice was notorious among El-Azd; in the dial. of whom, أُمُّ كَيْسَانَ was a metonymical appellation of the knee. (TA.) -A3- رُكِبَ, like عُنِىَ, [pass. in form, but neut. in signification,] He (a man) had a complaint of his knee. (TA.) -A4- رَكِبَ, aor. رَكَبَ , (K,) inf. n. رَكَبٌ, (TA,) He was large in the knee. (K.)

2 ركّبهُ الفَرَسَ ذ , [inf. n. as below,] He lent him the horse, [or mounted him on the horse, ] to go forth on a warring and plundering expedition, on the condition of receiving from him one half of the spoil: (K, * TA:) or for a portion of the spoil that he should obtain. (TA.) [See also 4.] ― -b2- And ركّبهُ, inf. n. تَرْكِيبٌ, He put, or set, one part of it upon another: (K:) [ he set it, or fixed it, in another thing: he composed it; constituted it; or put it together. ] تَرْكِيبٌ signifies The putting together, or combining, things, whether suitable or not, or placed in order or not: it is a more general term than تَأْلِيفٌ, which is the collecting together, or putting together, suitable things. (Kull p. 118.) You say, رَكَّبَ الفَصَّ فِى الخَاتَمِ (S, A) He set the stone in the signet-ring: and ركّب السِّنَانَ فِى القَنَاةِ He fixed the spearhead in the shaft; (A;) and النَّصْلَ فِى السَّهْمِ [ the arrow-head in the shaft ]. (S.) And شَىْءٌ حَسَنُ التَّرْكِيبِ [ A thing good, or beautiful, in respect of composition or constitution; well, or beautifully, composed or constituted or put together ]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also He removed it from one place to another in which to plant it; namely, a shoot of a palm-tree. (Mgh.)

4 اركب ذ He (a colt) became fit for being ridden; attained to the fit time for being ridden. (S, Msb, K.) [See also مُرْكِبٌ.] -A2- اركبهُ He gave him, appointed him, or assigned him, an animal on which to ride. (S.) [See also 2.] ― -b2- أَرْكَبَنِى خَلْفَهُ [ He mounted me, or made me to ride, behind him ]. (A.) And أَرْكَبَنِى مَرْكَبًا فَارِهًا [ He mounted me on a quick, brisk, sharp, or strong, beast ]. (A.) ― -b3- [Hence, اركبهُ أَمْرًا (assumed tropical:) He made him to venture upon, embark in, or undertake, an affair. And اركبهُ ذَنْبًا (assumed tropical:) He made him to commit a sin, or crime, or the like. ]

5 تركّب ذ It had one part of it put, or set, upon another; as also ↓ تراكب: (K:) [ it was, or became, composed, constituted, or put together: see 2.] You say, تركّب الفَصُّ فِى الخَاتَمِ [ The stone was set in the signet-ring ]: and تركّب النَّصْلُ فِى السَّهْمِ [ The arrow-head was fixed in the shaft ]. (S.)

6 تراكب ذ : see 1: and 5. You say, تراكب السَّحَابُ The clouds were, or became, [ heaped, or piled, up, ] one above, or upon, [or overlying, ] another; as also تراكم. (TA.)

8 اـِرْتَكَبَ see 1, in eight places.

10 استركبهُ فَأَرْكَبَهُ ذ [ He asked him to give him, appoint him, or assign him, an animal on which to ride, and he gave him, appointed him, or assigned him, one ]. (A.)

رَكْبٌ ذ : see رَاكِبٌ, in three places.

رَكَبٌ ذ The عَانَة: (ISk, Msb, K:) or the place of growth of the عَانَة, (S, K,) or of the hair of the عَانَة: (Mgh:) [i. e. it signifies the pubes; either as meaning the hair of the mons Veneris, or the mons Veneris itself: generally the latter; and this is often meant by the term عانة alone:] or the part that slopes down from the belly, and is beneath the ثُنَّة [q. v.] and above the pudendum: in all these senses said by Lh to be masc.: (TA:) or the pudendum (Az, Msb, K) itself: (TA:) or the external portion thereof: (K:) or the رَكَبَانِ are the roots of the two thighs, upon which is the flesh of the pudendum, (K, TA,) or upon which are the two portions of flesh of the pudendum: (TA:) the ركب is masc.: (Msb:) it is common to the man and the woman, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, *) accord. to Fr: (S, Msb:) or peculiar to the woman, (S, Mgh, K,) accord. to Kh: (S:) ElFarezdak makes it plainly common to both, saying, حِينَ ا@لتَقَى الرَّكَبُ المَحْلُوقُ بِالرَّكَبِ [ When the shaven pubes met the pubes ]: (TA: [and a similar ex. is given in the S and Msb, as cited by Fr:]) the pl. is أَرْكَابٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and أَرَاكِيبُ; (K;) the latter being pl. of the former; but in some copies of the K أَرَاكِبُ, like مَسَاجِدُ. (TA.) -A2- Also Whiteness in the رُكْبَة [or knee ]. (TA.)

رَكْبَةٌ ذ A single ride, or act of riding: pl. رَكَبَاتٌ. (IAth, L.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, هُوَ يَمْشِى الرَّكْبَةَ (tropical:) [i. e. يَرْكَبُ رَأْسَهُ He goes at random, heedlessly, or in a headlong manner, &c., (see 1,)] and هُمْ يَمْشُونَ الرَّكَبَاتِ (tropical:) [ They go at random, &c.]. (A. [The meaning is there indicated by the context, and is shown by what here follows.]) Respecting the phrase تمْشُونَ الرَّكَبَاتِ, occurring in a trad., meaning تَرْكَبُونَ رُؤُوسَكُمْ (assumed tropical:) [ Ye go at random, &c.], in that which is false, wrong, or vain, and in factions, or seditions, or the like, following one another without consideration, IAth says that رَكْبَةٌ [properly] signifies as explained above in the first sentence of this paragraph, and that the pl. الركبات is here governed in the accus. case by a verb understood, and [with that verb] is a denotative of state relating to the agent in تمشون: it supplies the place of that verb, which it does not require to be expressed; and the implied meaning is تَمْشُونَ تَرْكَبُونَ الرَّكَبَاتِ. (L.)

رُكْبَةٌ ذ a word of well-known meaning, (S, Msb,) [The knee; i. e., in a man,] the joint between the lower parts of the thigh and the upper parts of the shank: (A, K:) or [in a quadruped,] the joint between the metacarpus and the radius (مَوْصِلُ الوَظِيفِ وَالذِّرَاعِ): this is the right explanation: in the K, مَوْضِع is erroneously put for مَوْصِل: [this explanation is evidently given accord. to the terms employed in the anatomy of quadrupeds as compared to human beings: in that which next follows, there is certainly an omission, which I have endeavoured to supply:] or the رُكْبَتَانِ of the fore legs of the camel are the two joints that [ project forwards, in like manner as do, in the hind legs, those that ] are next the belly [meaning the stifle-joints ] when he lies down upon his breast with folded legs: the two joints that project behind [in the hind legs, namely, the hocks,] are called the عُرْقُوبَانِ: in every quadruped, the ركبتان are in the fore legs, and the عرقوبان are in the hind legs: and the عرقوب is what is called مَوْصِلُ الوَظِيفِ [i. e. the upper joint of the metatarsus]: (TA:) or the ركبة is the مِرْفَق [which in a man is the elbow, but here seems to mean the lower joint ] of the ذِرَاع [or radius ] of anything [i. e. of any beast]: (K:) [from its being said in the S and Msb that the رُكْبَة is “ well known, ” I conclude that there is no real discrepancy in the foregoing explanations: it is perhaps needless to add that the term رُكْبَة is now universally applied to the knee of a man and to what we commonly call the knee of a horse and the like:] the pl. is رُكَبٌ, (S, Msb, K,) i. e. the pl. of mult., and the pl. of pauc. is رُكْبَاتٌ and رُكَبَاتٌ and رُكُبَاتٌ. (S.) Lh mentions the phrase بَعِيرٌ مُسْتَوْقِحُ الرُّكَبِ [meaning A hardkneed camel ]; as though the term رُكْبَةٌ were applied to each part, and the pl. used accord. to this application. (TA.) ― -b2- One says [of an agitating affair or event], أَمْرٌ ا@صْطَكَّتْ فِيهِ الرُّكَبُ وَحَكَّتْ فِيهِ الرُّكْبَةُ الرُّكَبَةَ (tropical:) [ An affair, or event, in which the knees knocked together, and in which the knee rubbed the knee ]. (A.) ― -b3- And of one who has the mark of prostration in prayer on his forehead, between his eyes, (L,) بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ مِثْلُ رُكْبَةِ العَنْزِ [ Between his eyes is the like of the knee of the she-goat ]. (A, * L.) And of any two things that are alike, or correspondent, هُمَا كَرُكْبَتَى العَنْزِ [ They are like the two knees of the she-goat ]; because her two knees fall together upon the ground when she lies down. (L.) ― -b4- And it is said in a prov., شَرُّ النَّاسِ مَنْ مِلْحُهُ عَلَى رُكعبَتِهِ [ The worst of men is he whose fat is upon his knee ]: applied to him who is quickly angered; and to the perfidious: (Meyd, TA:) the phrase مِلْحُهُ عَلَى رُكْبَتِهِ is also used as meaning The smallest thing makes him angry: (TA:) and a poet says, لَا تَلُمْهَا اـِنَّهَا مِنْ عُصْبَةٍ مِلْحُهَا مَوْضُوعَةٌ فَوْقَ الرُّكَبْ [ Blame her not; for she is of a set of people whose fat is placed above the knees: perhaps meaning, for she is but a woman; as women are generally fat in the part above the knee]: (TA:) or مِنْ نِسْوَةٍ [in the place of مِنْ عُصْبَةٍ], meaning of women whose object of anxiety, or care, is fatness and fat: (Meyd, TA:) so that the prov. seems to mean that the worst of men is he who has not such intelligence as bids him to do that which is praiseworthy, but only bids him to do that in which is inconstancy and levity, and an inclining to the dispositions of women, to the love of fatness and fat. (Meyd.) [See other explanations in art. ملح.] -A2- Also The lower part (أَصْل) of the plant صِلِّيَانَة, when it has been cut. (K.)

رِكْبَةٌ ذ A mode, or manner, of riding. (S.) You say, هُوَ حَسَنُ الرِّكْبَةِ He has a good mode, or manner, of riding. (A, * TA.) ― -b2- [It is said in the K to be a subst. from رَكِبَهُ; as though signifying A riding. ]

رَكَبَةٌ ذ A company of riders upon camels, (K,) or of owners of camels on a journey, or travellers upon camels, exclusively of other beasts, (S,) but less in number than the company called رَكْبٌ: (S, K:) [and probably also a company of riders upon any beasts, but less than what is called رَكْبٌ:] accord. to MF, it is a pl. of رَاكِبٌ. (TA.) [See also أُرْكُوبٌ.]

رَكْبَى ذ and رَكْبَاةٌ: see رَكُوبٌ.

رَكَبُوتٌ ذ and رَكَبُوتَى: see رَكُوبٌ.

رَكْبَانَةٌ ذ : see رَكُوبٌ, in two places.

رِكَابٌ ذ [ Travelling-camels, used for riding; i. e.] camels (S, K, TA) upon which people journey; (S, TA;) i. q. مَطِىٌّ: (Msb:) or camels fit for carrying: (Har p. 22:) it has no proper sing.: (S:) the word used for the sing. is رَاحِلَةٌ: (S, Msb, K:) or, as ISh says, in the “ Book of Camels, ” رِكَابٌ and عِيرٌ are applied to camels that go forth for corn (طَعَام) to be brought back upon them, both when they go forth and after they have come back: and the former term is applied also to camels upon which people journey to Mekkeh, on which مَحَامِل are borne: and hired [or other ] camels that carry the goods and corn of merchants: but camels are not called عير, though bearing corn, [unless] if hired: [I insert the words “ or other ” and “ unless ” because it is further said,] عير are not those that bring corn for their owners; but these are called رِكَابٌ: (L, TA:) the pl. is رُكُبٌ, (S, K,) accord. to A'Obeyd, (TA,) and رِكَابَاتٌ and رَكَائِبُ; (K;) or, accord. to IAar, رُكُبٌ is not pl. of رِكَابٌ; and others say that it is pl. of ↓ رَكُوبٌ, signifying any beast on which one rides, [an epithet] of the measure فَعُولٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; (TA;) but called by ISd a subst.; (TA voce جَزُوزٌ;) and ↓ رَكُوبَةٌ is a more special term than رَكُوبٌ. (TA in the present art.) ― -b2- [Hence,] رِكَابُ السَّحَابِ (tropical:) [ The bearers of the clouds; i. e.] the winds. (A, K.) Umeiyeh says, تَرَدَّدُ وَالرِّيَاحُ لَهَا رِكَابُ [ It (referring to a cloud) goes to and fro (تَرَدَّد being for تَتَرَدَّدُ), the winds being its bearers ]. (TA.) -A2- Also [The stirrup of a horse's saddle;] a well-known appertenance of a horse's saddle; (S;) the same with respect to a horse's saddle as the غَرْز with respect to a camel's: pl. رُكُبٌ. (K.)

رَكُوبٌ ذ and ↓ رَكُوبَةٌ: see رِكَابٌ: both signify A beast that is ridden: (S:) or a she-camel that is ridden: (K:) or the latter has this meaning: and is metaphorically applied to anything ridden: (Msb:) or the former signifies any beast that is ridden: and the latter is a name for everything that is ridden; applied to one, and to a pl. number: (TA:) or the former signifies ridden, as a fem. epithet: and the latter, one specially appointed for riding; and that is constantly kept to work; of beasts (K, TA) of any kind: (TA:) and the latter and ↓ رَكْبَانَةٌ and ↓ رَكْبَاةٌ and ↓ رَكَبُوتٌ (K) and ↓ رَكْبَى and ↓ رَكَبُوتَى, (K * and TA in art. حلب, [see حَلُوبٌ in several places,]) a she-camel that is ridden; or that is broken, trained, or rendered submissive or manageable: (K:) or رَكُوبٌ has this last signification, accord. to AZ: and its pl. is رُكُبٌ: (TA:) the pl. of رَكُوبَةٌ being رَكَائِبُ: (TA voce جَزُوزٌ:) and ↓ رَكْبَانَةٌ signifies [also] a she-camel fit to be ridden; (S, TA;) like as حَلْبَانَةٌ signifies fit to be milked: the ا and ن are [said to be] added in order to give intensiveness to the signification: (TA:) [and all the other epithets mentioned above seem also, accord. to some, to have an intensive sense: see حَلُوبٌ.] You say, مَا لَهُ رَكُوبَةٌ وَلَا حَمُولَةٌ وَلَا حَلُوبَةٌ He has not a she-camel to ride, nor one to carry burdens, nor one to be milked. (S, TA.) ― -b2- Also بَعِيرٌ رَكُوبٌ A camel having marks of galls, or sores, on his back, produced by the saddle. (TA.) ― -b3- And طَرِيقٌ رَكُوبٌ A road ridden upon, (S, TA,) and trodden so as to be rendered even, or easy to be travelled. (TA.) -A2- See also رَكَّابٌ.

رَكِيبٌ ذ One who rides with another; a fellowrider. (K.) رَكِيبُ السُّعَاةِ, mentioned in a trad., and there promised a place in Hell, means He who accompanies tyrannical عُمَّال [or collectors of the poor-rates ]. (TA.) ― -b2- See also مَرَكَّبٌ. ― -b3- نَخْلٌ رَكِيبٌ (K) and رَكِيبٌ مِنْ نَخْلٍ (TA) Palmtrees planted in a row by a rivulet, or not by a rivulet. (K, TA.) -A2- Also A مَشَارَة, (K,) i. e. سَاقِيَة [or channel of water for irrigation ]: (TA:) or a rivulet between [ two pieces of sown ground such as are termed ] دَبْرَتَانِ: (K:) or between two gardens of palm-trees and grape-vines: (so accord. to the text of the K in the TA:) or what is between two gardens of palm-trees and grape-vines: (so accord. to the CK and my MS. copy of the K:) or grape-vines between two rivers or rivulets: (TA:) or a place of seed-produce: (K:) or a clear, or cleared, piece of land, in which one sows: (T:) pl. رُكُبٌ. (K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَهْلُ الرَّكِيبِ The people who stay, or dwell, by water; syn. الحُضَّارُ. (TA.)

رُكَيْبٌ ذ dim. of رَكْبٌ. (TA.) See رَاكِبٌ.

رَكُوبَةٌ ذ : see رَكُوبٌ.

زَيْتٌ رِكَابِىٌّ ذ [ Olive-oil: ] so called because brought on camels from Syria. (S, A, * K.)

رَكَّابٌ ذ and ↓ رَكُوبٌ, applied to a man, (K, TA,) the latter on the authority of Th, (TA,) signify the same, (K, TA,) Who rides much; a great rider: and so رَكَّابَةٌ applied to a woman. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] رَكَّابٌ لِلْأُمُورِ (assumed tropical:) A man who surmounts, or masters, affairs; [or who often does so; or accustomed to embark in, or undertake, or to surmount, or master, them; or who often embarks in, or undertakes, them, and therefore surmounts, or masters, them; ] by his knowledge, and repeated experience, and good judgment. (K and TA in art. طلع.)

عَلاهُ الرُّكَّابُ ذ (tropical:) The nightmare, or incubus, came upon him. (A.)

رَكَّابَةٌ ذ : see the latter part of the next paragraph.