أَرْوَقُ
Root: روق
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أَرْوَقُ
[app. originally signifying Horned:
2 and hence,]
3 Also, applied to a man, Having long teeth, with a projecting of the upper over the lower: or having long incisors: or whose upper incisors are longer than the lower, and project over the latter: fem. رَوْقَآءُ: and pl. رُوقٌ; which is also said to be pl. of رُوقَةٌ, and of رَائِقٌ. [In the K is added, after the mention of the pl., وَ كَذٰلِكَ قَوْمٌ رُوقٌ وَ رَجُلٌ أَرْوَقُ: an addition altogether redundant.]
def.2 [It seems that it is also syn. with أَوْرَقُ, as being formed from the latter by transposition; and that hence] one says سَنَةٌ رَوْقَآءُ and سِنُونَ رُوقٌ [meaning
2 and hence,]
3 Also, applied to a man, Having long teeth, with a projecting of the upper over the lower: or having long incisors: or whose upper incisors are longer than the lower, and project over the latter: fem. رَوْقَآءُ: and pl. رُوقٌ; which is also said to be pl. of رُوقَةٌ, and of رَائِقٌ. [In the K is added, after the mention of the pl., وَ كَذٰلِكَ قَوْمٌ رُوقٌ وَ رَجُلٌ أَرْوَقُ: an addition altogether redundant.]
def.2 [It seems that it is also syn. with أَوْرَقُ, as being formed from the latter by transposition; and that hence] one says سَنَةٌ رَوْقَآءُ and سِنُونَ رُوقٌ [meaning
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