رقش
1 رَقَشَ, (
A,)
aor. ـُ (
TK,)
inf. n. رَقْشٌ, (
S,
M,
A,
K,) He variegated; coloured with two or more colours; decorated; embellished;
syn. نَقَشَ; (
S, *
A,
K; *) and زَيَّنَ; as also ↓ رقّش; (
Har p. 57;) and ↓ تَرَقَّشَ. (So in a copy of the A: [but I think that this is a mistranscription, for رَقَّشَ.])
b2: He wrote: (
M,
TA:) and he pointed, or dotted, (
As,
M,
TA,) characters, and writing: (
As,
TA:) as also ↓ رقَّش,
inf. n. تَرْقِيشٌ; in both senses: and ↓ the latter, he wrote upon, or in, papers or the like, or books. (
M,
TA.) 2 رقّش,
inf. n. تَرْقِيشٌ: see 1, in three places.
b2: He embellished his speech: or embellished it with lies:
syn. حَسَّنَ, and زَوَّقَ: (
TA:) or زَيَّنَ, (
A,) and زَوَّرَ, (
S,
K,) and زَخْرَفَ. (
S,
A,
K.)
b3: Hence, (
A,
TA,) (
tropical:) He made known, divulged, or told, discourse, or conversation, in a malicious or mischievous manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like; (
S,
A,
TA;) because he who does so embellishes his speech, or embel-lishes it with lies: (
A,
TA:) he told a calumny to the object thereof. (
M.)
b4: (assumed
tropical:) He excited discord, dissension, or animosity. (
M.)
b5: (assumed
tropical:) He blamed, reproved, or chid;
syn. عَاتَبَ. (
M,
TA.) 5 ترقّش He adorned himself: (
A,
K:) he displayed his beauty, or goodliness. (
A,
TA.)
A2: See also 1.
8 ارتقشوا (assumed
tropical:) They became mixed together in fight. (
AA,
K.) رَقَشٌ A good, or beautiful, خَطّ [i. e. character, or handwriting]. (
TA.) [See also رُقَيْشٌ: and see 1.]
A2: Also Food. (
M.) رَقَشٌ and ↓ رُقْشَةٌ A colour in which are [intermixed] duskiness, or dinginess, and blackness; and the like of those two hues. (
M.) [See أَرْقَشُ.]
رُقْشَةٌ: see what next precedes.
رَقَاشٌ The serpent: (
A,
Sgh,
K:)
app. because of the رُقْشَة [see رَقَشٌ] upon his back: (
TA:) or a serpent speckled with black and white [like حَيَّةٌ رَقْشَآءُ]. (
A.) رُقَيْشٌ
dim. of رَقْشٌ, signifying The pointing, or dotting, of characters and writing: (
As,
TA:) or of أَرْقَشُ; as also ↓ أُرَيْقِشُ [so in the
TA, but in some copies of the
K, أُرَيْقِشٌ]: (
AHát,
K:) the latter is allowable. (A Hát.) أَرْقَشُ;
fem. رَقْشَآءُ; (
S,
M, &c.;)
pl. رُقْشٌ; (A;) Variegated with duskiness, or dinginess, and blackness; or the like of those two hues; applied to the [species of locust called] جُنْدَب: (
M,
TA:) and the
fem., applied to a serpent (حَيَّة), (
S,
M,
IAth,
K,) signifies the same: (
M:) or speckled with black and white; (
S,
K;) and so when applied to a she-goat: (
IAar,
M:) or, applied to a serpent, it signifies one of the viper-species (أَفْعًى); because of the lines and specks upon its back: (
IAth:) and أَرْقَشُ الأُذُنَيْنِ having his ears variegated with black and white, and the rest of his hair black; applied to a kid. (
S.)
b2: Also the
fem., A small creeping thing (
M,
K) that is found in herbs, a variegated and beautiful worm, (
M,) resembling [another small creeping thing called] the حُمْطُوط, (
M,
K,) speckled with red and yellow. (
IDrd,
TA.)
Sgh., or his copyist, has corrupted حمطوط into خُطُوط. (
TA.)
b3: Also the
fem., The شِقْشِقَة [i. e. the bursa faucium, or faucial bag,] of the camel: (
S,
A,
K:) or the شقشقة of the camel is sometimes رقشآء, having in it a mixture of colours. (
IDrd.) أُرَيْقِشُ: see رُقَيْشٌ.