أَرْقَطُ
Root: رقط
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أَرْقَطُ
Black speckled with white: or the reverse: fem. رَقْطَآءُ. Applied to a sheep or goat, Like, or syn. with, أَبْغَثُ: or speckled with black and white. And the fem., applied to a domestic fowl or hen (دَجَاجَة), Black speckled with white: or party-coloured: or having patches of white and black: much sought after, and used, by enchanters; and rarely found.
2 It is also applied to a man.
3 And the fem. is applied to a tract (رِسَالَةٌ), and to an ode (قَصِيدَةٌ), as meaning Having one of the letters of a word thereof dotted, and another not dotted: from the same epithet applied to a sheep or goat.
4 السِّلْسِلَةُ الرَّقْطَآءُ A certain reptile; the most malignant of the [kind of lizards called] عِظَآء: when it crawls upon food, it poisons it.
5 ثَرِيدَةٌ رَقْطَآءُ
6 الأَرْقَطُ The leopard: an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates.
7 الرَّقْطَآءُ
2 It is also applied to a man.
3 And the fem. is applied to a tract (رِسَالَةٌ), and to an ode (قَصِيدَةٌ), as meaning Having one of the letters of a word thereof dotted, and another not dotted: from the same epithet applied to a sheep or goat.
4 السِّلْسِلَةُ الرَّقْطَآءُ A certain reptile; the most malignant of the [kind of lizards called] عِظَآء: when it crawls upon food, it poisons it.
5 ثَرِيدَةٌ رَقْطَآءُ
6 الأَرْقَطُ The leopard: an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates.
7 الرَّقْطَآءُ
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