ءرق

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns sleeplessness and the inability to sleep. It extends to describe a disease affecting crops and livestock, and also a human ailment causing jaundice. Additionally, it is linked to a term for a dangerous situation or a type of snake.

Derived headwords

الأَرَقnoun

1.
sleeplessnessboth
The state of being unable to sleep, particularly at night.
2.
insomniaclassical
Loss of sleep due to an illness or ailment.

أَرِقَverb

1.
to be sleeplessboth
To experience sleeplessness; to be unable to sleep.

ائْتَرَقَverb

1.
to be sleeplessclassical
An alternative form for experiencing sleeplessness.

أَرَقٌadjective

1.
sleeplessboth
One who is sleepless or suffers from sleeplessness.

آرِقadjective

1.
sleeplessboth
Describing someone who is sleepless.

فبت بليل الآرق المتملل — And I spent the night sleepless and restless

أَرَّقَverb

1.
to cause sleeplessnessboth
To make someone unable to sleep; to keep someone awake.

تَأْرِيقnoun

1.
causing sleeplessnessclassical
The act of causing someone to be sleepless.

مُؤَرِّقadjective

1.
sleepless-inducingboth
That which causes sleeplessness.

الأَرَقَانnoun

1.
plant diseaseclassical
A disease that affects crops like wheat and palm trees, causing them to yellow.
2.
jaundiceclassical
A human ailment characterized by yellowing of the skin and body.

كأن في ريطتيه نضح إرقان — As if in its two layers there was a trace of al-irqan

الإِرْقَانnoun

1.
plant diseaseclassical
A disease affecting crops and date palms.
2.
jaundiceclassical
A disease causing yellowing of the body in humans.
3.
a specific treeclassical
A particular type of tree.

مَأْرُوقadjective

1.
affected by diseaseclassical
Crops or plants afflicted by the disease known as al-irqan.

مَيْرُوقadjective

1.
affected by diseaseclassical
Crops or plants afflicted by the disease known as al-irqan.

مَأْرُوقَةadjective

1.
affected by diseaseclassical
A plant, especially a palm tree, afflicted by the disease known as al-irqan.

اليَرَقَانnoun

1.
jaundiceboth
A disease causing yellowing of the body in humans; a variant spelling of al-irqan.
2.
plant diseaseclassical
A disease affecting crops; a variant spelling of al-irqan.

أَرِيقnoun

1.
calamityclassical
A dangerous situation or a great peril; often used metaphorically.
2.
snakeclassical
A type of snake, possibly related to its appearance or danger.

جاءنا بأم الربيق على أريق — He brought us the mother of al-ribiq in a state of al-ariq

أَوْرَقadjective

1.
greyish-brownclassical
Describing a color, specifically a greyish-brown hue, often applied to animals.

أَرَاقname

1.
a place nameclassical
A proper noun referring to a specific location.

كأن على الجمال، أوان حفت، ... هجائن من نعاج أراق عينا — As if on the camels, when they were surrounded, ... were wild she-camels from Araq

Parallel reading

الأرق: السهر.

Al-araq: sleeplessness.

وقد أرقت، بالكسر، أي سهرت، وكذلك ائترقت على افتعلت، فأنا أرق.

And I experienced sleeplessness (with kasra), meaning I stayed awake, and likewise I experienced it (using the form 'i'ta'ala'), so I am sleepless.

التهذيب: الأرق ذهاب النوم بالليل، وفي المحكم: ذهاب النوم لعلة.

Al-Tahdhib: Al-araq is the loss of sleep at night, and in Al-Muhkam: the loss of sleep due to an ailment.

يقال: أرقت آرق.

It is said: I stayed awake, a sleepless person.

ويقال: أرق أرقا، فهو أرق وآرق وأرق وأرق؛

And it is said: He was sleepless, a sleeplessness; so he is sleepless, and a sleepless person, and sleepless, and sleepless;

فبت بليل الآرق المتملل

And I spent the night sleepless and restless

وقد أرقه كذا وكذا تأريقا، فهو مؤرق، أي أسهره؛

And such-and-such caused him sleeplessness, a causing of sleeplessness, so he is one who induces sleeplessness, meaning he kept him awake;

متى أنام لا يؤرقني الكرى

When do I sleep that sleep does not keep me awake

والأرقان والأرقان والإرقان: داء يصيب الزرع والنخل؛

And al-araqan, and al-araqan, and al-irqan: a disease that afflicts crops and palm trees;

ويترك القرن مصفرا أنامله، ... كأن في ريطتيه نضح إرقان

And it leaves the wheat yellowing its fingertips, ... as if in its layers there was a trace of al-irqan

واليرقان والأرقان أيضا: آفة تصيب الإنسان يصيبه منها الصفار في جسده.

And al-yaraqan and al-araqan also: an affliction that strikes a human, causing yellowness in his body.

والإرقان: شجر بعينه وقد فسر به البيت.

And al-irqan: a specific tree, and the verse has been interpreted with it.

وقولهم: جاءنا بأم الربيق على أريق تعني به الداهية؛

And their saying: He came to us with the mother of al-ribiq in a state of al-ariq, meaning a calamity;

وأراق، بالضم: موضع؛

And Araq (with damma): a place;

كأن على الجمال، أوان حفت، ... هجائن من نعاج أراق عينا

As if on the camels, when they were surrounded, ... were wild she-camels from Araq.