Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رَاقٍ

Root: رقى

Full Definition

رَاقٍ : see 1, last sentence but one. The saying in the Kur [lxxv. 27], مَنْ رَاقٍ [Who is one that charms?] means that there is no charmer that shall charm him and protect him: or, accord. to I'Ab, the meaning is, who is he that ascendeth with his soul? shall the angels of mercy [ascend with it] or the angels of punishment? In the saying of a rájiz, لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ وَالأَجَلِّ البَاقِى أَنْ لَنْ يَرُدَّ القَدَرَ الرَّوَاقِى [the meaning may be, Assuredly thou knowest, by the Most Majestic, the Everlasting, that the female charmers will not repel, or avert, that which is decreed; or, that the potent charmers will not &c.: for] the pl. may be that of رَاقِيَةٌ as an epithet applied to a woman, or of this same word as an intensive epithet applied to a man.


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