طَرْقٌ

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طَرْقٌ [originally an Verbal.Noun, and as such app. signifying An act of striking the lute &c.: and hence,] a species (ضَرْبٌ) of the أَصْوَات [meaning sounds, or airs, or tunes,] of the lute: or any صَوْت [i. e. air, or tune], or any نَغْمَة [i. e. melody], of the lute and the like, by itself: you say, تَضْرِبُ هٰذِهِ الجَارِيَةُ كَذَا وَكَذَا طَرْقًا [This girl, or young woman, or female slave, plays such and such airs or tunes, or such and such melodies, of the lute or the like].
2 [Hence, probably,] عِنْدَهُ طُرُوقٌ مِنَ الكَلَامِ, sing. طَرْقٌ, a phrase mentioned by Kr; thought by ISd to mean He has [various] sorts, or species, of speech.
3 See also طَرْقَةٌ, in four places.

def.2 Also A stallion [camel] covering: pl. طُرُوقٌ and طُرَّاقٌ: an Verbal.Noun used as a subst. [or an epithet]: for ذُو طَرْقٍ.
2 And The sperma of the stallion [camel]: a man says to another, أَعِرْنِى طَرْقَ فَحْلِكَ العَامَ i. e. [Lend thou to me] the sperma, and the covering, which latter is said to be the original meaning, of thy stallion [camel this year]. And it is said to be sometimes applied metaphorically to The sperma of man: or in relation to man, it may be an epithet, [like as it is sometimes in relation to a stallion-camel, as mentioned above,] and not metaphorical. And طَرْقُ الجَمَلِ means also The hire that is given for the camel's covering of the female. (TA in art. شبر.)

def.3 Also, and مَطْرُوقٌ , Water of the rain in which camels and others [i. e. other beasts] have staled, or waded and staled, and dunged: or stagnant water in which beasts have waded and staled: and طَرَقٌ [expressly stated to be مُحَرَّكَة] signifies [the same, or] water that has collected, in which there has been a wading and staling, so that it has become turbid; or places where water collects and stagnates in stony tracts of land; and the pl. of this is أَطْرَاقٌ.

def.4 طَرْقٌ also signifies A [snare, trap, gin, or net, such as is commonly called] فَخّ, or the like thereof; and so طِرْقٌ : (K: [by Golius and Freytag, this meaning has been assigned to طَرْقَةٌ; and by Freytag, to طِرْقَةٌ also; in consequence of a want of clearness in the K:]) or a snare, or thing by means of which wild animals are taken, like the فَخّ; and طَرَقَةٌ , of which the pl. [or coll. gen. n.] is طَرَقٌ , signifies [the same, or] the snare (حِبَالَة) of the sportsman, having [what are termed] كِفَف [pl. of كِفَّةٌ, q. v.].

def.5 And A palm-tree: of the dial. of Teiyi.

def.6 And Weakness of intellect, and softness. (TA [See طُرِقَ.])

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