أَرْمَكُ
Root: رمك
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أَرْمَكُ
Of the colour termed
رُمْكَةٌ: applied to a camel: fem. رَمْكَآءُ. The رمكآء is said by Honeyf-el-Hanátim, who was one of the most skilled of the Arabs respecting camels, to be the most beautiful of she-camels. The fem. is also applied, tropically, to a woman.
2 A poet says, [applying it to dust,]
3 And it is said in a trad., [but to what it relates I know not,] The name of the higher, or highest, land is الرَّمْكَآءُ; said by IAth to be fem. of الأَرْمَكُ.
2 A poet says, [applying it to dust,]
[And the horses, or horsemen, cleave the dark brown, or ash-coloured, &c., dust].وَالخَيْلُ تَجْتَابُ الغُبَارَ الأَرْمَكَا
3 And it is said in a trad., [but to what it relates I know not,] The name of the higher, or highest, land is الرَّمْكَآءُ; said by IAth to be fem. of الأَرْمَكُ.
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