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رُوقَةٌ

Root: روق

Full Definition

رُوقَةٌ Choice, or excellent: or goodly, or beautiful: applied to a boy and to a girl, and to a he-camel and to a she-camel: and very beautiful or comely or elegant; applied to one and more of human beings: used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and pl. and dual: [and also said to be pl. of رَائِقٌ, q. v.:] and it has a pl., [or coll. gen. n.,] namely, رُوْقٌ; applied to she-camels; or sometimes applied to horses and camels, absolutely accord. to IAar, or particularly when on a journey.

def.2 Also A little, or paltry, thing: of the dial. of El-Yemen. You say, مَا أَعْطَاهُ إِلَّا رُوقَةً He gave him not save a little, or paltry, thing.


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