خنق: خنق البنديرة: نكس العلم علامة للحزن (محيط المحيط).
خنَّق (بالتشديد). تخنيق الشرانق عرضها لحرارة الشمس أو بخار الماء عند غليانه لكي تموت الديان التي بها (محيط المحيط).
خَنّق القَثَّاء: أثار التراب من بين منابتها ورد على أصولها (محيط المحيط).
خانق، حانقة: خاصمة، شاجرة، نازعة (بوشر، همبرت ص241 عنت 5، 1: 11، ألف ليلة برسل4: 78).
تخانق: تخاصم، تشاجر، تنازع، ويقال تخانق مع: تشاغب مع (بوشر، همبرت ص241، محيط المحيط)، وفي ألف ليلة (برسل 4: 140) فتماسكا وتقابضا وتخانقــا.
اختنق: في المقري (2: 515) في كلامه عن تمثال أسد: شرب على صهريج فاختنق الأسد الذي يرمي بالماء. وهذا يعني أن الماء لم يعد يسيل من فم الأسد. خَنّق: حلق، حلقوم، حنجرة (المعجم اللاتيني العربي).
خَنْق أو خَنَق: خانق، مضيق بين جبلين، وشعب ضيق بين الصخور (بربر وجر ص6، كولومب ص54، 55، 57، مارتن ص20، كارترون ص328، كاريت جغرافية ص134).
خَنَق: مرض من أمراض الأطفال (بلجراف 2: 33) وهو يظن إنه الخُناق.
خَنَق البول: حصر البول، أسر البول (المعجم اللاتيني العربي).
خَنْقَة: غابة، أجمة (بليسييه ص65، 70).
خنقة اليد: معصم اليد، رسغ اليد (بوشر).
خَناق (مصدر خانق): نزاع، شجار، خصام، شغب. ويقول صاحب محيط المحيط بانه يستعمل مصدراً لــتخانق.
خِناقة: نزاع، شجار، مضاربة، فتنة (بوشر، همبرت ص241).
خِنَاقة: سوق السمك (فوك، الكالا).
وخَنَاقَّية: خنب، رعام، سقاوة، داء الخيل، وهو التهاب الجلدة المخاطية في الحيوانات ذات الحوافر. (الكالا).
خَنّاق. جمعه خنانيق وخوانيق: خُناق، ذباح (بوشر) والأطباء يقولون خوانيق (محيط المحيط).
خَنَّاق: صياد السمك (راجع لين).
والجمع خَنَاقين: اختصار سوق الخناقين أي سوق السمك (فوك).
خَنّاق: عامية خُناق (محيط المحيط).
خَنّاقة: لابد أنها تدل على معنى قلادة من الذهب أو اللؤلؤ وغير ذلك، لأن الكلمة هناكة الصقلية المأخوذة منها تدل على ذلك، ونجد الكلمة عند آبيلا (صفة مالطة ص258)، وهو يترجمها بما معناه قلادة.
وقد نبهني السيد دي جويه إلى أن هذه الكلمة موجودة عند المقدسي (ص396).
خانقة، وجمعه خوانيق وخَوانق (بيان سميث 1324): خَناق، داء الخوانيق. ففي معجم المنصوري: خوانق جمع خانقة وهي ورم يكون في الحلق وربما قتل.
مَخْنَق: تصحيف مِخْنَق، ويجمع على مخانق، وهي المشنقة (فوك).
والجمع مخانق: الشعاب الضيقة في الجبل (ملر آخر أيام غرناطة ص12) وفي مخطوطة كوبنهاجن المجهولة الهوية (ص31): وارصدوا لفرارهم بالمضايق وقُبض على أكثرهم بتلك المخانق.
مُخَنَّق، يقال: أخذ منه بالمخنق في الكلام عن المحتضر أي هو في حشرجة الموت أو في غرغة الموت. (معجم البلاذري).
مِخْنَقة: قلادة من القرنفل (دوماس حياة العرب ص173، وعادات ص304). ومِخْنَقة: مشنقة (ابن بطوطة 1: 184) وهذا هو صواب قراءة الكلمة كما جاء في التعليق (راجع مِخْنَق).
مخنقي. فرس مخنقي: فرس تتساقط قشرة جلده من داء يصيبه. (دوماس حياة العرب ص189).
مَخْنُوق. في المعجم اللاتيني العربي: Lemures المخنوقين والملهو بهم. وقد كتبت الكلمة الأخيرة فيه بوضوح غير أني لا أدري كيف أفسرها.
مَخَانَقَة: عياط، تبكيت، توبيخ (بوشر).
اختناق: من مصطلح الطيب: خُناق (محيط المحيط).
اختناق الرحم: من مصطلح الطب: تشنج يحدث في الرحم لاحتباس الطمث (محيط المحيط) الجريدة الآسيوية (1853، 1: 350) حيث يجب تصحيح الترجمة.

خنق

1 خَنَقَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb,) inf. n. خَنِقٌ (S Mgh, Msb, K) and خَنْقٌ, (Msb, TA,) the latter a contraction of the former, (Msb,) or, accord. to El-Fárábee, the latter is not allowable, (Mgh,) He throttled him, or strangled him, i. e. squeezed his throat (Mgh, Msb) that he might die; (Msb;) [but it does not always mean he squeezed his throat so that he died; often meaning, simply, he, or it, throttled him, strangled him, or choked him; and frequently said of a disease in the throat, and of food;] and ↓ خنّقهُ signifies the same, (S, K,) [or has an intensive meaning,] and its inf. n. is تَخْنِيقٌ. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] العَبْرَةُ ↓ خَنَّقَتْهُ [and خَنَقَتْهُ] (assumed tropical:) Weeping [or sobbing] choked him; as though the tears throttled him. (Mgh.) b3: And خُنِقَ He (a horse) was affected with the disease, or wind in the throat, termed خُنَاقِيَّة. (TA.) b4: And خَنَقَ الوَقْتَ, aor. as above, (assumed tropical:) He postponed, or deferred, and [so] straitened, the time: and خَنَقَ الصَّلَاةَ (assumed tropical:) He straitened the time of prayer by postponing it, or deferring it. (TA.) 2 خَنَّقَ see 1, in two places. b2: You say also, خنّق السَّرَابُ الجِبَالَ, inf. n. تَخْنِيقٌ, (tropical:) The mirage nearly covered the heads of the mountains. (K, TA.) b3: And خنّق الإِنَآءَ (tropical:) He filled the vessel: (K, TA:) or filled it up (سَدَّدَ مَلْأَهُ): and in like manner, الحَوْضَ [the watering-trough]. (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA.) b4: And خنّق الأَرْبَعِينَ (tropical:) He (a man) nearly attained to [the age of] forty [years]. (K, TA.) 7 إِنْخَنَقَ see what next follows, in three places.8 اختنق He was, or became, throttled, or strangled; i. e. he had his throat squeezed that he might die; (JK, * S, * Msb, K; *) [and simply he was, or became, throttled, strangled, or choked;] as also ↓ انخنق: (JK, * Msb:) or you say, ↓ انخنقت الشَّاةُ بِنَفْسِهَا [the sheep, or goat, became throttled, or strangled, or choked, by itself]: (S, K:) or ↓ الاِنْخِنَاقُ signifies the having the خِنَاق [q. v.] compressed upon one's throat: and الاِخْتِنَاقُ, the compressing it upon one's own throat. (TA.) خَنْقٌ: see مُخَنَّقٌ.

خَنِقٌ inf. n. of خَنَقَهُ: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) A2: and i. q. مَخْنُوقٌ q. v. (JK, K.) خُنُقٌ: see خِنَاقٌ.

خُنِاقٌ [Quinsy;] a certain disease which pre vents the passage of the breath to the lungs and heart; (K;) as also [↓ خُنَاقَةٌ thus in modern Arabic, and] ↓ خُنَّاقٌ: pl. خَوَانِيقُ (TA) [and خَنَّانِيقُ, thus in modern Arabic]. b2: See also مُخَنَّقٌ, in three places.

خِنَاقٌ A cord, (JK, S, Mgh, K,) or bow-string, or the like, (Mgh,) with which one is strangled; (JK, * S, * Mgh, K; *) also, metaphorically, termed خَنَّاقٍ ↓ مِخْنَقَةُ. (Mgh.) b2: See also مُخَنَّقٌ, in two places. b3: فَلْهَمٌ خِنَاقٌ (assumed tropical:) A narrow vulva of a woman: (Abu-l-'Abbás, TA:) and ↓ خُنُقٌ [or فُرُوجُ خُنُقٌ, for خُنُقٌ is app. pl. of خِنَاقٌ, like as كُنُزٌ is pl. of كِنَازٌ,] (assumed tropical:) narrow vulvas (IAar, K) of women. (IAar.) b4: هُمْ فِى خِنَاقٍ مِنَ المَوْتِ (assumed tropical:) They are in straitness by reason of death. (TA.) خَنِيقٌ: see مَخْنُوقٌ, in three places.

خُنَاقَةٌ: see خُنَاقٌ.

خُنَاقِيَّةٌ A certain disease in the throats of birds and horses: (K:) or a certain disease that attacks the bird in its head, and the horse in its throat, and chokes it: (JK:) or a certain disease, or wind, that attacks men and horses or similar beasts in the throat, and sometimes attacks birds in the head and throat, mostly appearing in pigeons. (TA.) خَنَّاقٌ: see خَانِقٌ. b2: Also One who sells fish [taken] with the خَنَّاقَة [q. v.]. (TA.) خُنَّاقٌ: see خُنَاقٌ.

خَنَّاقَةٌ A snare with which beasts of prey are taken (JK, TA) by the throat: and a snare with which fish are taken in El-Andalus. (TA.) خَانِقٌ One who strangles; (Msb, TA; *) as also ↓ خَنَّاقٌ: (Mgh, Msb:) or the latter signifies one whose office it is to strangle. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] خَانِقُ الذِّئْبِ and خَانِقُ النَّمِرِ and خَانِقُ الكَلْبِ and خَانِقُ الكِرْسَنَّةِ [in the CK الكَرْسَنَّةُ] Four herbs: (K:) [the first and second, in the present day, wolfsbane, or aconite: or, as Golius says, referring for the former and latter respectively to Diosc. iv. 78 and 77, the former is the aconitum lycoctonon; and the latter, the aconitum pardalianches: the third, dogsbane, or colchicum; or, as Golius says, referring to Diosc. iv. 81, apocynon: and the fourth, strangle-weed, (because it strangles the كِرْسَنَّة, or bitter vetch,) or broomrape, i. e., as Golius says, referring to Diosc. ii. 172 and Ibn-Beytár, orobanche:] the first is high (مشرف [but perhaps this should be مُشْرِق i. e. shining]) in the leaves, downy, and resembling the دلب [?]: the second is like the tail of the scorpion, glistening, about a span [in height], and has not more than five leaves: each of these is of the [season called] رَبِيع; and they are poisonous; they kill all animals; the ذِئْب and the نَمِر being particularized only because of the quickness of its acting in them: Ibn-Seenà says, in the “ Kánoon,” the leaves of خانق النمر, when mixed with fat, and kneaded and baked with bread, and given as food to wolves and dogs and foxes and leopards (نمر), kills them: whence it seems that this may be two herbs or one herb. (TA.) b3: خَانِقٌ signifies also (tropical:) A narrow road or ravine, in a mountain: (S, * K, * TA:) or a narrow place or pass, between two mountains, and between two tracts of sand. (JK.) [See also مُخْتَنَقٌ.] b4: And (tropical:) A narrow street; syn. زُقَاقٌ; (S, K, TA;) in the dial. of the people of ElYemen. (S, TA.) b5: See also مَخْنُوقٌ, in two places.

خَانَقَاهٌ A convent inhabited by righteous and good men, and Soofees; an arabicized word, from [the Persian] خَانَهْ گَاهْ; [and post-classical, for] El-Makreezee says that the خانقاه was instituted in the fifth century of the Flight, for Soofee recluses to employ themselves therein in the service of God: (TA:) [pl. خَوَانِقُ.]

خَاَنقَاهِىٌّ A man of, or belonging to, a خَانَقَاه. (TA.) مَخْنَقٌ: see مُخَنَّقٌ, in two places.

مِخْنَقَةٌ A necklace, syn. قِلَادَةٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) that surrounds the neck; (Mgh, Msb;) wherefore it is thus called; (Msb;) [i. e., because] it lies against the مُخَنَّق: pl. مَخَانِقُ. (TA.) b2: See also خِنَاقٌ. [And see زِرَادٌ.]

مُخَنَّقٌ: see مَخْنُوقٌ. b2: [Hence,] غُلَامٌ مُخَنَّقُ الخَصْرِ (assumed tropical:) A boy slender in the waist. (K.) A2: Also The part, of the neck, which is the place of the cord [or the like] called خِنَاق [wherewith one is strangled]; (S, K; *) i. e., (TA,) the throat; (K, accord. to the TA; in the CK and in my MS. copy of the K ↓ مَخْنَق;) and so ↓ خُنَاقٌ, (S, K, in the former said to be syn. with مُخَنَّقٌ,) and ↓ خِنَاقٌ (K) and ↓ خَنْقٌ. (TA; and so, accord. to the TA, in the K.) You say, أَخَذْتُ بِمُخَنَّقِهِ [I seized his throat]. (S.) And أَخَذَهُ بِمُخَنَّقِهِ (K, accord. to the TA, but accord. to the CK and my MS. copy of the K ↓ بِمَخْنَقِهِ,) and ↓ بِخُنَاقِهِ and ↓ بِخِنَاقِهِ, i. e. [He took him, or seized him,] by his throat. (K.) And أَخَذَ بِمُخَنَّقِهِ (A in art. زرد) and ↓ بِخُنَاقِهِ (S) [properly He, or it, seized his throat, or throttled him, or choked him; meaning] (tropical:) he, or it, straitened him; as also أَخَذَ بِمُزَرَّدِهِ. (A in art. زرد.) And أَخَذَ مِنْهُ بِالمُخَنَّقِ (tropical:) He, or it, constrained him, and straitened him. (TA.) And بَلَغَ مِنْهُ المُخَنَّقَ [properly It reached his throat; meaning (assumed tropical:) it straitened him, or distressed him]. (S.) بَلَغَ الأَمْرُ المُخَنَّقَ signifies the same as بَلَغَ المُذَمَّرَ, (A in art. ذمر,) which means (assumed tropical:) The affair, or case, or event, reached a distressing pitch. (K in art. ذمر.) مَخْنُوقٌ and ↓ خَنِقٌ and ↓ خَنِيقٌ (JK, K) and ↓ خَانِقٌ, applied to a man, [and to any animal, as also ↓ مُخَنَّقٌ, Throttled, or strangled, i. e. having his throat squeezed that he may die; but not always meaning, so as to be killed thereby; often meaning, simply, throttled, strangled, or choked;] (JK;) all signify the same; from خَنَقَهُ: (JK, K:) or ↓ خَانِقٌ, in the place of ↓ خَنِيقٌ, signifies ذو خناق [app. meaning having a خِنَاق, or cord, &c., by which he is throttled, or strangled, round his neck; or perhaps having a خُنَاق, or quinsy]: (TA:) and ↓ شَاةٌ خَنِيقَةٌ and ↓ مُنْخَنِقَةٌ signify a sheep, or goat, throttled, or strangled, i. e. having its throat squeezed that it may die: (Msb:) or the latter of these two means a sheep, or goat, throttled, or strangled, or choked, by itself (اِنْخَتَقَتْ بِنَفْسِهَا). (S, TA. [See 8.]) It is said in a prov., (Meyd,) اِفْتَدِ مَخْنُوقُ, (Meyd, K,) i. e. يَا مَخْنُوقُ [Ransom thyself, O thou who art throttled, or strangled, or choked]; applied to any one distressed and constrained; (Meyd;) meaning free thyself from difficulty (K, TA) and harm: (TA:) or, as some relate it, اِفْتَدَى مَخْنُوقٌ [One throttled, or strangled, or choked, ransomed himself]. (Meyd.) مُخْتَنَقٌ A narrow place or pass. (S, TA.) [See also خَانِقٌ, near the end of the paragraph.]

مُخْتَنِقٌ (tropical:) A horse whose blaze occupies his jaws, (K, TA,) extending to the roots of his ears. (TA.) شَاةٌ مُنْخَنِقَةٌ: see مَخْنُوقٌ.

رقم

1 رَقَمَ, (Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb, TA,) inf. n. رَقْمٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) He wrote (S, Msb, K) a writing, book, or letter. (Msb.) And He sealed, stamped, imprinted, or impressed. (S, TA.) and رَقَمَ الِكتَابَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (JK,) He marked the writing with the dots, or points, (JK, K, TA,) and made its letters distinct, or plain. (K, * TA.) One says, هُوَ يَرْقُمُ المَآءَ, (S,) or هُوَ يَرْقُمُ فِى المَآءِ, (JK, TA,) [He writes, &c., upon the water,] a prov., applied to the skilful and intelligent, (JK, * TA,) meaning he is so skilful that he writes, &c., (يَرْقُمُ) where the writing, &c., (الرَّقْمُ,) will not remain fixed. (JK, S, TA.) And one says of a skilful workwoman, clever in sewing skins and the like, هِىَ تَرْقُمُ المَآءَ and تَرْقُمُ فِى المَآءِ. (TA.) b2: and رَقَمَ الثَّوْبَ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. as above, (JK, Msb,) and so the inf. n.; (Msb, TA;) and ↓ رقّمهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَرْقِيمٌ; (S, TA;) He figured, variegated, or decorated, the garment, or piece of cloth; (Mgh, Msb, TA;) and (TA) made it striped, or marked it with stripes: (K, TA:) or, accord. to IF, he figured it, variegated it, or decorated it, with a certain, or known, figuring or variegation or decoration, such as became a mark [thereof]. (Msb.) Also the former phrase, (JK, Mgh, TA,) and ↓ the latter likewise, (TA,) said of a trader, or dealer, (JK, Mgh,) He marked, or put a mark on, the garment, or piece of cloth, (JK, Mgh, TA,) specifying its price; he put a price-mark upon it: (Mgh:) whence, لَا يَجُوزُ بَيْعُ الشَّىْءِ بِرَقْمِهِ [The sale of the thing by the putting a price-mark upon it shall not be allowable, because the express consent of the seller as well as that of the purchaser is necessary to the ratification of the sale]: (Mgh:) [or]

رَقَمْتُ الشَّىْءَ signifies I marked the thing so as to distinguish it from other things, as, for instance, by writing and the like: and hence, لَا يُبَاعُ الثَّوْبُ بِرَقْمِهِ وَلَا بِلَمْسِهِ [The garment, or piece of cloth, shall not be sold by the putting a price-mark upon it, for the reason explained above, nor by the feeling it, or touching it: see 3 in art. لمس]. (Msb.) b3: [Hence,] هُوَ يَزِيدُ فِى الرَّقْمِ is a phrase used by the relaters of traditions as meaning (assumed tropical:) He adds to his tradition, and lies: from الرَّقْمُ signifying the writing upon a garment, or piece of cloth. (TA.) b4: You say also, رَقَمَ البَعِيرَ (assumed tropical:) He cauterized the camel. (TA.) [And رَقَمَ الفَرَسَ (assumed tropical:) He (a farrier) marked the horse, making lines upon him, with a hot iron: see مَرْقُومٌ, and see also جَاعِرَةٌ.]2 رَقَّمَ see above, in two places. تَرْقِيمٌ signifies [also] The drawing, and the writing, of a line [or lines]. (KL.) رَقْمٌ is originally an inf. n. [of 1, q. v.]: and hence رَقْمُ الثَّوْبِ The writing [or price-mark, &c.,] upon the garment, or piece of cloth. (S.) [Hence also الرَّقْمُ الهِنْدِىُّ The Indian notation of numerals; adopted by the Arabs; whence is formed the notation which we term “ the Arabic. ”] b2: Also A sort of [the kind of garments called]

بُرُود: (S:) or a striped sort of [the kind of garments, or cloth, termed] وَشْى; or of [the kind of cloth termed] خَزّ; or of [the kind of garments called] بُرُود: (K:) or a garment, or piece of cloth, figured with round forms: (Har p. 416:) or بُرُودُ الرَّقْمِ signifies a sort of figured, or variegated, or decorated, [garments of the kind called]

برود: (Mgh:) or رَقْمٌ signifies [cloth of the kind termed] خَزّ figured, variegated, or decorated; (JK, Msb;) so accord. to El-Fárábee: (Mgh:) but accord. to IF, ↓ رَقِيمٌ signifies any garment, or piece of cloth, figured, variegated, or decorated, with a certain, or known, figuring or variegation or decoration, such as is a mark [thereof]; and you say بُرْدٌ رَقْمٌ and بُرُودٌ رَقْمٌ [a garment of the kind called برد, and garments of the kind called برود, thus figured, &c.; using the latter word as sing. and pl. because it is originally an inf. n.]: (Msb:) and ↓ مَرْقُومٌ (Msb, TA) and ↓ مُرَقَّمٌ (TA) signify a garment, or piece of cloth, figured, variegated, or decorated: (Msb, TA:) and striped, or marked with stripes: and marked, or having a mark [specifying its price] put upon it. (TA.) A2: See also رَقِمٌ, in two places.

رَقَمٌ: see رُقْمَةٌ: A2: and see also the paragraph here next following.

A3: يَوْمُ الرَّقَمِ The day of Er-Rakam was one of the days [of conflict] of the Arabs, (S,) well known. (K.) رَقِمٌ A calamity, or misfortune; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓ رَقَمٌ and ↓ رَقْمٌ; (K;) all mean thus, and a thing that one cannot accomplish, or manage; (TA;) and ↓ رُقْمَةٌ signifies the same as رَقِمٌ. (JK.) One says, وَقَعَ فِى الرَّقِمِ, (TA,) and وَقَعَ فِى الرَّقِمِ

↓ الرَّقْمَآءِ, (S,) meaning He fell [into calamity or misfortune, and he fell into great calamity or misfortune, or] into that which he could not accomplish, or manage. (S, TA.) And جَآءَ فُلَانٌ

↓ بِالرَّقِمِ الرَّقْمَآءِ Such a one brought to pass that which was a great calamity or misfortune. (As, TA.) And بنْتُ الرَّقِمِ signifies the same as الرَّقِمُ, That which is a calamity or misfortune. (S, TA.) b2: One says also, جَآءَ بِالرَّقِمِ and ↓ بِالرَّقْمِ meaning [He brought, or did,] much. (K.) رَقْمَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Any one of several small marks of cauterization upon the shanks of a beast. (JK, T, TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) One of what are termed الرَّقْمَتَانِ: (TA:) this signifies two [horny] things resembling two nails (JK, S, K, TA) in the legs of a beast (JK, K, TA) or in the legs of a sheep or goat, (S,) opposite each other: (JK, S, TA:) and of the ass and horse, two marks in the inner sides of the two arms: (S:) or the جَاعِرَتَانِ; (K, TA;) which are two black spots [or marks made by cauterization] upon the rump of the ass: (TA:) or what borders upon the جَاعِرَتَانِ of the ass, of the mark made by cauterization: or two portions of [callous] flesh next to the inner side of each of the arms of the horse, having no hair upon them. (K, TA.) Agreeably with all of these renderings has been explained the trad., مَا أَنْتُمْ مِنَ الأُمَمِ إِلَّا كَالرَّقْمَةِ مِنْ ذِرَاعِ الدَّابَّةِ (assumed tropical:) [Ye are no more, of the nations in general, than such as is the رقمة of the arm of the beast]. (TA.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A small quantity of herbage; as in the saying, مَا وَجَدْتُ

إِلَّا رَقْمَةً مِنْ كَلَأٍ (assumed tropical:) [I found not save a small quantity of herbage]. (TA.) b4: A herb, or leguminous plant, of those termed أَحْرَار [pl. of حُرٌّ, q. v.]: (S:) a certain plant; said to be a herb, or leguminous plant, inclining to bitterness, and having a small red flower; (JK;) as some say, (JK, TA,) the خُبَّازَى [or mallow]. (JK, K, TA.) b5: A meadow (رَوْضَةٌ, S, K) is sometimes thus termed. (S.) b6: Also The side of a valley: (S, K:) or the place where its water collects; (K;) the part, of a valley, in which is the water. (Fr, JK, TA.) رُقْمَةٌ The colour of the serpent termed أَرْقَم; (JK, TA;) as also ↓ رَقَمٌ. (TA.) b2: See also رَقِمٌ.

رَقَمَةٌ A certain plant, (K, TA,) resembling the كرش [i. e. كَرِش or كِرْش, a plant little known, said to be so called because its leaves resemble the villous coat of the stomach of a ruminant animal]: so says Az: and in one place he says, it is a herb that grows مشحطا [app. a mistranscription for مُسَطَّحًا, a term often used in descriptions of plants, meaning expanded], juicy, or sappy, and scarcely ever, or never, eaten by the camels, or cattle, except from want: AHn describes the رقمة [perhaps meaning the رَقْمَة, q. v.,] only as a herb, or leguminous plant, of those termed أَحْرَار, of which the particular characteristics were not known to him. (TA.) [Forskål, in his Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. cviii., mentions a plant seen by him in El-Yemen, previously unknown to him, which he calls “ rokama prostrata,” of the class pentandria; writing its Arabic name رقمه, and the pronunciation “ Rókama. ”]

رَقَمِيَّاتٌ Certain arrows, so called in relation to a place in El-Medeeneh, (S, K,) named الرَّقَمُ; (K;) or in relation to a place thus named in the way to El-Medeeneh; (JK;) or, accord. to Nasr, in relation to a water thus named, where they were made, by certain mountains of the same name. (TA.) رَقُومٌ, used as a fem. epithet, Remaining, staying, dwelling, or abiding; and remaining fixed. (JK.) رَقِيمٌ: see مَرْقُومٌ: and رَقْمٌ. It occurs in a trad. of 'Alee, describing the sky, as meaning Figured, or decorated, with the stars. (TA.) b2: Also A book, or writing. (S.) As used in the Kur xviii. 8, الرَّقِيمُ is said to mean A tablet (JK, S, K *) of lead, (K,) whereon were inscribed, (JK, * S,) or engraved, (K,) the names of the People of the Cave [commonly called the Seven Sleepers], (JK, S, K,) and their ancestry, (JK, K,) and their story, (S,) and their religion, and what it was from which they fled: (K:) so says Suh, on the authority of Fr: (TA:) or a mass of stone; (Suh, JK, K;) [i. e.] a stone tablet on which were inscribed their names, and which was put upon the entrance of the cave: (Bd:) or the town, or village, from which they came forth: (JK, K:) or their mountain (Zj, K) in which was the cave: (Zj:) or the valley (AO, JK, K) in which was the cave: (AO, JK:) or their dog: (El-Hasán, R, K:) or [in the JK and CK “ and ”] the receptacle for ink: (JK, K, TA:) mentioned by IDrd, but with the expression of uncertainty as to its correctness; (TA;) and said to be of the language of the Greeks: (JK, * TA:) and the tablet: (K:) thus, also, explained as used in the verse of the Kur-án: (TA:) but I'Ab is related by 'Ikrimeh to have said, I know not what is الرَّقِيمُ; whether a book or writing, or a building: (S, TA:) it is [said to be] of the measure فَعِيل in the sense of the measure مَفْعُول. (TA.) b3: رَقِيمَةٌ, applied to a woman, (tropical:) Intelligent; such as is termed بَرْزَةٌ [fem. of بَرْزٌ q. v.]. (Fr, K, TA.) b4: دَاهِيَةٌ رَقِيمٌ (assumed tropical:) A great calamity or misfortune. (JK.) أَرْقَمُ (assumed tropical:) A certain serpent: (JK:) a serpent in which are blackness and whiteness: (S, M, K:) or a serpent [begotten] between two serpents [app. of different varieties], marked with redness and blackness and duskiness and [the colour termed]

بُغْثَة [q. v.]: (ISh:) or a serpent upon which are white specks: (Ham p. 784:) or the most malignant of serpents, and the most wont to pursue mankind: (Ibn-Habeeb, K:) or a serpent like the جَانّ in respect of the fear that men have of killing it, though it is one of the weakest and the least irascible of serpents; for one fears, in killing the ارقم and the جانّ, the punishment of the جِنّ to them who kill them: (Sh:) or, applied to a serpent, i. q. أَرْقَشُ [q. v.] : (Mgh:) or the male serpent: (K:) the female is not so called, nor is she called رَقْمَآءُ; (TA;) but she is called رَقْشَآءُ: (K, TA:) when you use the epithet, you say أَرْقَشُ; but أَرْقَمُ is [used as] a subst: (Ibn-Habeeb:) the pl. is أَرَاقِمُ, (JK, ISd,) a pl. proper to substs., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it. (ISd, TA.) b2: See also مِرْقَمٌ. b3: For the fem., رَقْمَآءُ, see رَقِمٌ, in two places.

تَرْقِيمٌ inf. n. of 2 [q. v.]. b2: Also, [as a subst.,] A certain sign, or mark, of the keepers of the register of the [tax, or tribute, termed] خَرَاج, (K, TA,) conventionally used by them, (TA,) put upon [the notes, or billets, or petitions, termed] رِقَاع [pl. of رُقْعَةٌ, q. v.], and upon [the writings termed] تَوْقِيعَات [pl. of تَوْقِيعٌ, q. v.], and upon accounts, or reckonings, lest it should be imagined that a blank has been left [to be afterwards filled up], in order that no account be put down therein; as also تَرْقِينٌ. (K.) مِرْقَمٌ A writing-reed; (K) because it is an instrument for الرَّقْم, i. e. writing: (TA:) also called ↓ أَرْقَمُ [app. because partly blackened with ink]. (Z, TA.) One says to him who is vehemently angry, (K, TA,) extravagantly, or immoderately, so, (TA,) طَغَا مِرْقَمُكَ, (assumed tropical:) [signifying Thy pen has exceeded its due limit], (K, TA,) in some of the lexicons طَمَا, (TA,) and جَاشَ مرقمك, (K,) and عَلَا, or غَلَا, accord. to different copies of the K, and فَاضَ, (TA,) and طَفَحَ, and اِرْتَفَعَ, and قَذَفَ مرقمك: (K, TA:) all [virtually] meaning the same. (TA.) b2: Also A thing with which bread is marked (يُنْقَشُ); (TA;) like مِنْسَغَةٌ; in Pers\. called پَرِ نَانْ [i. e. a feather, or bundle of feathers, with which bread is pricked by the maker]: pl. مَرَاقِمُ. (MA.) مُرَقَّمٌ: see مَرْقُومٌ: b2: and رَقْمٌ.

مُرَقِّمٌ A writer; as also مُرَقِّنٌ.

مَرْقُومٌ Written; (S, Msb, TA;) as also ↓ رَقِيمٌ: (Msb:) and sealed, stamped, imprinted, or impressed: (S:) and a writing marked with the dots, or points, (JK, TA,) and having its letters made distinct, or plain: [i. e. distinctly written:] and ↓ مُرَقَّمٌ signifies the same: (TA:) the first occurs in the Kur [lxxxiii. 9 and 20], in the phrase كِتَابٌ مَرْقُومٌ, (S, TA,) meaning, in both instances, [as some say, a writing] sealed, or stamped. (Jel.) b2: See also رَقْمٌ. b3: Also (assumed tropical:) A beast having small marks of cauterization upon his shanks; every one of which is termed رَقْمَةٌ: (JK, T, TA:) or دَابَّةٌ مَرْقُومَةٌ means (assumed tropical:) a beast having lines of cauterization upon its legs. (K.) It is also applied as an epithet to a wild ass, because of a blackness upon his legs: (TA:) or مَرْقُومُ القَوَائِمِ, so applied, and applied to a [wild] bull, means (tropical:) Having lines of black upon his legs. (K, TA.) b4: And مَرْقُومَةٌ (tropical:) Land (أَرْضٌ) in which is little herbage: (Fr, S, K, TA:) or in which is the plant called رَقْمَة. (JK.)