عرقص

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily discusses a type of desert plant, its medicinal properties, and related terms. It also touches upon the movement of a snake and a type of insect or small creature.

Derived headwords

العرقصاءnoun

1.
Desert plantclassical
A plant found in the desert, described as having a stem like fennel and abundant, dense foliage.
2.
Hyssopclassical
Identified as possibly being Hyssop (الحندقوقى) or Yerba (يربطو), also referred to as 'al-dharq'.

العريقصاءnoun

1.
Desert plantclassical
Another name for the desert plant mentioned under العرقصاء, with similar descriptions.

العريقصانةnoun

1.
A single desert plantclassical
The singular form of the desert plant, with the addition of the letter 'nun'.

العريقصانnoun

1.
Desert plantsclassical
The plural form of the desert plant, with the addition of the letter 'nun'.

العرنقصانnoun

1.
Desert plantclassical
A term for the desert plant, considered to be the original form before elision of the letter 'nun'.

العرقصانnoun

1.
Desert plantclassical
A name for the desert plant, with the initial 'ayn and 'ra' vowels opened, derived from عرنقصان.

العرتنnoun

1.
Desert plantclassical
Another name for a desert plant, derived from عرنتن by eliding the 'nun'.

العرقصةnoun

1.
Dancingclassical
Similar to the act of dancing (الرقص).
2.
Snake's movementclassical
The manner in which a snake moves.

العرقصnoun

1.
Insect/creatureclassical
A type of insect or small creature.

العرقصnoun

1.
Insect/creatureclassical
Another form for a type of insect or small creature.

عرنقصانnoun

1.
Creatureclassical
A creature, possibly an insect, described with the pattern فعنللان.

عرقصانnoun

1.
Creatureclassical
A creature, possibly an insect, derived from عرنقصان by elision.

Parallel reading

هو بالضم والمد، كذا العريقصاء: نبات بالبادية.

It is with damma and madd, and so is al-ʿurayqiṣāʾ: a plant in the desert.

بعض يقول في الواحدة: العريقصانة، بالنون، والجمع العريقصان.

Some say for the singular: al-ʿurayqiṣāna, with 'nun', and the plural is al-ʿurayqiṣān.

ومن قال عرقصاء وعريقصاء فهما في الواحد والجمع ممدودان على حالة واحدة والعرنقصان، بالنون بعد الراء، على الأصل.

And whoever says ʿaraqṣāʾ and ʿurayqiṣāʾ, they are in the singular and plural extended in the same way, and al-ʿarnuqṣān, with 'nun' after the 'ra', is the original.

قال الفراء: العرقصان أي بفتح العين والراء وكذا العرتن، محذوفان الأصل عرنقصان وعرنتن، فحذفوا النون وأبقوا سائر الحركات، وهما نبتان

Al-Farra' said: Al-ʿaraqṣān, meaning with fath on the 'ayn and 'ra', and likewise al-ʿartan, their origin is ʿarnuqṣān and ʿarantan, so they deleted the 'nun' and kept the other vowels, and they are two plants.

وقال الدينوري: العرقصاء: الحندقوقى، أو يربطو، هكذا في سائر النسخ وهو الذرق.

And Al-Dinawari said: Al-ʿaraqṣāʾ: is the hyssop, or yerba, as is in all copies, and it is al-dharq.

قالوا: هو نبات ساقه كساق الرازيانج، وجمته وافرة متكاثفة، عظيم النفع في جميع أنواع الوباء، ولوجع السن المتأكل بالتغرغر بماء أغلي فيه، لوجع الأذن والطحال والصداع المزمن والنزلات وغيرها

They said: It is a plant whose stem is like the stem of fennel, and its foliage is abundant and dense, greatly beneficial in all types of plague, and for toothache eroded by gargling with water boiled in it, for earache, spleen, chronic headache, colds, and others.

قال ابن عباد: العرقصة مثل الرقص

Ibn Abbad said: Al-ʿaraqaṣa is like al-raqs (dancing).

قال الفراء: العرقصة: مشي الحية.

Al-Farra' said: Al-ʿaraqaṣa: is the movement of the snake.

قال ابن سيده: العرقصان، والعرنقصان: دابة، عن السيرافي، وفي الأبنية: عرنقصان فعنللان: دابة، وعرقصان محذوف منه.

Ibn Sidah said: Al-ʿaraqṣān, and al-ʿarnuqṣān: a creature, from Al-Sirafi, and in the patterns: ʿarnuqṣān is faʿlalān: a creature, and ʿaraqṣān is derived from it by elision.

وقال ابن بري: دابة من الحشرات.

And Ibn Biri said: A creature from the insects.

وهو بعينه نص أبي عمر و، وفاته من لغات العرقصاء العرقص، كقنفذ، والعرقص، كعلبط، ذكرهما صاحب اللسان.

And it is exactly the text of Abu 'Amr, and he missed from the variants of al-ʿaraqṣāʾ: al-ʿaraqṣ, like qunfudh, and al-ʿaraqṣ, like ʿalabaṭ, the author of Al-Lisān mentioned them.