أَرْقَمُ

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أَرْقَمُ A certain serpent: a serpent in which are blackness and whiteness: 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.]: or a serpent upon which are white specks: or the most malignant of serpents, and the most wont to pursue mankind: 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: or, applied to a serpent, i. q. أَرْقَشُ [q. v.] : or the male serpent: the female is not so called, nor is she called رَقْمَآءُ; but she is called رَقْشَآءُ: when you use the epithet, you say أَرْقَشُ; but أَرْقَمُ is [used as] a subst: the pl. is أَرَاقِمُ, a pl. proper to substs., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it.
2 See also مِرْقَمٌ.
3 For the fem., رَقْمَآءُ, see رَقِمٌ, in two places.

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