ر ك ك

Arabic

Root

ر ك ك • (r-k-k)

1. related to debility, feebleness

Derived terms

• Form I: رَكَّ (rakka, “to be feeble”)
  • Verbal noun: رَكّ (rakk), رِكَّة (rikka), رَكَاكَة (rakāka), رُكُوكَة (rukūka)
  • Active participle: رَاكّ (rākk)
• Form II: رَكَّكَ (rakkaka, “to become feeble”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْكِيك (tarkīk)
  • Active participle: مُرَكِّك (murakkik)
• Form V: تَرَكَّكَ (tarakkaka, “to become feeble”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرَكُّك (tarakkuk)
  • Active participle: مُتَرَكِّك (mutarakkik)
• Form VIII: اِرْتَكَّ (irtakka, “to vacillate, to be infirm”)
  • Verbal noun: اِرْتِكَاك (irtikāk)
  • Active participle: مُرْتَكّ (murtakk)
• Form X: اِسْتَرَكَّ (istarakka, “to deem feeble”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِرْكَاك (istirkāk)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَرِكّ (mustarikk)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَرَكّ (mustarakk)

• رَكِيك (rakīk, “weak, feeble, loose, infirm”)
• رُكَاك (rukāk, “weak, feeble, loose, infirm”)
• رِكّ (rikk, “weak rain”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ر ك ك”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 551
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ر ك ك”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 183–184
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ر ك ك”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 911–912
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ر ك ك”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1141–1142
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ر ك ك”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 493