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قرق

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

The root قرق (q-r-q) primarily relates to flatness, evenness, and smooth, open ground, often a plain or valley. It also extends to concepts of origin, lineage, and a type of children's game.

Derived headwords

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    level placeboth

    A flat, even area of land, such as a plain or valley.

  2. 2.
    good plainclassical

    A good, fertile plain or valley that is free of stones.

قاع قرقnoun
  1. 1.
    level plainclassical

    A level and even plain.

قِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    smooth valleyclassical

    A valley that is smooth and even.

قرقرnoun
  1. 1.
    smooth valleyclassical

    A valley that is smooth and even.

قرقوسnoun
  1. 1.
    smooth valleyclassical

    A valley that is smooth and even.

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    originboth

    The origin or lineage of something or someone.

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    bad originclassical

    A bad or ignoble origin or lineage.

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    gameclassical

    Something that is played with; a game.

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    game of seedsclassical

    A game played with seeds or pebbles.

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    game of linesclassical

    A children's game involving drawing lines in the dirt and arranging pebbles.

القِرْقnoun
  1. 1.
    groupclassical

    A group or gathering of people.

أقراقnoun
  1. 1.
    groupsclassical

    Plural of قرق, meaning groups or gatherings.

القِرْقَانnoun
  1. 1.
    brothers from co-wivesclassical

    Two brothers born to two different mothers (co-wives).

قَرَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be levelclassical

    To be flat, level, or even.

  2. 2.
    to be smoothclassical

    To be smooth and free of obstacles.

قَرَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to playclassical

    To play, especially a game.

قَرَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to talk nonsenseclassical

    To speak incoherently or talk nonsense.

قَرَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to cluck (hen)classical

    The sound a hen makes when brooding.

قَرْقَرverb
  1. 1.
    to be smoothclassical

    To be smooth and even.

قَرْقَرverb
  1. 1.
    to playclassical

    To play a game.

قَرْقَرverb
  1. 1.
    to talk nonsenseclassical

    To speak incoherently or talk nonsense.

قَرْقَرverb
  1. 1.
    to cluck (hen)classical

    The sound a hen makes when brooding.

Parallel reading

المكان المستوي.
The level place.
يقال قاع قرق مستو؛
It is said, a level, even plain;
كأن أيديهن، بالقاع القرق، ... أيدي نساء يتعاطين الورق
As if their hands, on the level plain, ... were the hands of women dealing cards.
القاع الطيب لا حجارة فيه.
The good plain that has no stones in it.
واد قرق وقرقر وقرقوس أي أملس،
A valley that is smooth, even, and free of obstructions,
تربعت من صلب رهبى أنقا ... ظواهرا مرا، ومرا غدقا ومن قياقي الصوتين قيقا ... صهبا، وقربانا تناصي قرقا
I grazed from the hard ground of Rahba on smooth, open spaces, and moist, fertile ones, and from the smooth, clear ground, on reddish-brown ones, and on close-growing ones.
القرق شبيه بالمصدر؛
The qarq is similar to the masdar (verbal noun);
يروى على وجهين: قرق وقرق،
It is narrated in two ways: qarq and qarq,
يقال: جاء قرق من الناس وقرق من النساء.
It is said: A group of people came, and a group of women came.
يقال هو لئيم القرق أي الأصل.
It is said he is of ignoble origin, meaning the lineage.
ليست من القرق البطاء دوسر، ... قد سبقت قيسا، وأنت تنظر
She is not from the slow-footed, ignoble lineage, Dawsar, ... she has already surpassed Qays, and you are watching.
ليست من الفرق، جمع فرس أفرق وهو الناقص إحدى الوركين؛
She is not from the farq (plural of afraq), meaning a horse lacking one hip;
طلبت بنات أعوج، حيث كانت، ... كرهت تناتج الفرق البطاء
I sought the offspring of A'waj, wherever they were, ... I disliked the offspring of the slow-footed, hip-deficient horse.
والقرق: الأصل الرديء.
And al-qarq: the bad origin.
والقرق: الذي يلعب به؛
And al-qarq: that which is played with;
والقرق لعب السدر.
And al-qarq is the game of sidr (a type of tree/fruit).
والقرق صوت الدجاجة إذا حضنت.
And al-qarq is the sound of a hen when she is brooding.
قرْق إذا هذى وقرْق إذا لعب بالسدر.
He made a clucking sound if he was delirious, and he played with sidr if he was playing.
استوى القرق فقوموا بنا أي استوينا في اللعب فلم يقمر واحد منا صاحبه،
The game became even, so let's go, meaning we became equal in the game, and neither of us could beat the other,
القرق لعبة للصبيان يخطون في في الأرض خطا ويأخذون حصيات فيصفونها؛
Al-qarq is a game for boys where they draw lines on the ground and take pebbles to arrange them;
وأعلاق الكواكب مرسلات، ... كحبل القرق، غايتها النصاب
And the dangling stars are scattered, ... like the line of pebbles in the game, their destination is the horizon.
أنه كان ربما يراهم يلعبون بالقرق فلا ينهاهم ؛
That he might sometimes see them playing al-qarq and not forbid them;
القرق، بكسر القاف، لعبة يلعب بها أهل الحجاز وهو خط مربع، في وسطه خط مربع، في وسطه خط مربع، ثم يخط من كل زاوية من الخط الأول إلى الخط الثالث، وبين كل زاويتين خط فيصير أربعة وعشرين خطا،
Al-qarq, with a kasra on the qaf, is a game played by the people of Hijaz, which is a square line, in its center a square line, in its center a square line, then a line is drawn from each corner of the first line to the third line, and between every two corners a line, making twenty-four lines,
هو شيء يلعب به،
It is something that is played with,
وسميت الأربعة عشر.
And it was named 'the fourteen'.