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أرق

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See also: ارق and آرق

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ء ر ق (ʔ r q)
2 terms

Verb

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أَرِقَ (ʔariqa) I (non-past يَأْرَقُ (yaʔraqu), verbal noun أَرَق (ʔaraq))

  1. to be sleepless
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Verb

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أَرَّقَ (ʔarraqa) II (non-past يُؤَرِّقُ (yuʔarriqu), verbal noun تَأْرِيق (taʔrīq))

  1. to make sleepless
    • 13th Century CE, Al-Busiri, Qasīdat al-Burda:
      نَعَمْ سَرَى طَيْفُ مَنْ أَهْوَى فَأَرَّقَنِي
      naʕam sarā ṭayfu man ʔahwā faʔarraqanī
      Yes! Thoughts of the beloved came to me at night and kept me from sleeping.
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Noun

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أَرَق (ʔaraqm

  1. verbal noun of أَرِقَ (ʔariqa) (form I)
  2. (medicine, pathology) insomnia
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Etymology 2

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Root
ر ق ق (r q q)
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Elative of رَقِيق (raqīq, thin, slim; delicate; soft).

Adjective

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أَرَقّ (ʔaraqq)

  1. elative degree of رَقِيق (raqīq):
    1. thinner, slimmer; thinnest, slimmest
    2. more delicate; most delicate
    3. softer; softest
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References
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  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 27
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أرق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 50
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أرق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 20
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أرق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen