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الءرق

Root entry · 18 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns sleeplessness and staying awake at night. It also extends to various red substances, plant afflictions, and a serious illness characterized by jaundice.

Derived headwords

الأَرَقُnoun
  1. 1.
    sleeplessnessboth

    Staying awake at night.

الائْتِرَاقُnoun
  1. 1.
    sleeplessnessclassical

    Similar to sleeplessness at night.

أَرِقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be sleeplessboth

    To be unable to sleep at night.

أَرِقٌadjective
  1. 1.
    sleeplessboth

    One who stays awake at night.

آرِقٌadjective
  1. 1.
    sleeplessboth

    One who stays awake at night.

الإِرَقَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    red shrubclassical

    A type of red shrub.

  2. 2.
    hennaclassical

    The plant used for dyeing hands and hair.

  3. 3.
    saffronclassical

    A spice derived from the Crocus sativus flower.

  4. 4.
    dragon's bloodclassical

    A red resin obtained from certain plants.

  5. 5.
    afflictionclassical

    A plague or pestilence affecting crops and people.

الأَرَقَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    afflictionclassical

    A plague or pestilence affecting crops and people.

الأُرْقَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    afflictionclassical

    A plague or pestilence affecting crops and people.

الأَرَقَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    afflictionclassical

    A plague or pestilence affecting crops and people.

الأَرَاقُnoun
  1. 1.
    afflictionclassical

    A plague or pestilence affecting crops and people.

اليَرَقَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    jaundiceboth

    A condition where the body's color changes drastically to yellow or black due to the flow of yellow or black humors to the skin and surrounding tissues without putrefaction.

مَأْرُوقٌadjective
  1. 1.
    afflictedclassical

    Crops or people afflicted by a pestilence.

مَيْرُوقٌadjective
  1. 1.
    afflictedclassical

    Crops or people afflicted by a pestilence.

أَوْرَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to be greyishclassical

    To have a greyish color, often referring to a camel.

أُورِيقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    calamityclassical

    A great disaster or calamity.

آرَقَverb
  1. 1.
    to cause sleeplessnessboth

    To make someone stay awake at night.

أَرَّقَverb
  1. 1.
    to cause sleeplessnessboth

    To make someone stay awake at night.

مُؤَرِّقٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a nameclassical

    A proper name.

Parallel reading

الأَرَقُ، محركة: السهر بالليل.
Sleeplessness, with vowel movement: staying awake at night.
كالائتراق، أرق، كفرح، فهو أرق وآرق.
Like al-i'tirāq, he was sleepless, like farḥa, so he is sleepless (adj.) and sleepless (participle).
والإرقان، بالكسر: شجر أحمر، والحناء، والزعفران، ودم الأخوين، وآفة تصيب الزرع والناس، كالأرقان، محركة، وبكسرتين، وبفتح الهمزة وضم الراء، والأرق والأرقان، بفتحهما، والأراق، كغراب، واليرقان، محركة، وهذه أشهر: يتغير منه لون البدن فاحشا إلى صفرة أو سواد بجريان الخلط الأصفر أو الأسود إلى الجلد وما يليه بلا عفونة.
And al-irqān, with kasra: a red shrub, henna, saffron, dragon's blood, and an affliction that strikes crops and people, like al-arqān, with vowel movement, and with two kasras, and with fatḥa on the hamza and ḍamma on the rā, and al-araq and al-arqān, with fatḥa on both, and al-arāq, like ghurāb, and al-yaraqān, with vowel movement. And this last one is the most famous: the color of the body changes horribly to yellow or black due to the flow of yellow or black humors to the skin and what is next to it without putrefaction.
وزرع مأروق وميروق: مؤوف.
And afflicted crops, mārūq and mīrūq: afflicted.
ورأى رجل الغول على جمل أورق، فقال: "جاءنا بأم الربيق على أريق" أي: بالداهية العظيمة، صغر الأورق، كسويد في أسود، والأصل: وريق، فقلبت الواو همزة.
A man saw a ghoul on a greyish camel, and he said: 'He has brought us the mother of calamities on a urīq,' meaning: the great disaster. It is the diminutive of 'awraq, like suwayd in aswad. The original was 'warīq,' so the wāw was changed to a hamza.
وآرقه وأرقه: أسهره.
And he caused him sleeplessness (āraqa) and he caused him sleeplessness (araqa): he made him stay awake.
ومؤرق، كمحدث: علم.
And mu'arriq, like muḥdith: a name.