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مَرَقٌّ

Root: رق

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مَرَقٌّ sing. of مَرَاقُّ, which signifies The thin, or delicate, and soft, or tender, parts of the belly: or the lower part thereof with what surrounds it, that is thin or delicate [in the skin]: or the lower part of the belly, in the region of the صِفَاق [q. v.], beneath the navel: and metonymically applied in a trad. respecting ablution to the lower part of the belly of a man, together with the رُفْغَانِ [or groins] and the genitals and the [other] places of which the skin is thin or delicate: and, of a camel, the أَرْفَاغ [or groins, and similar places of flexure or creasing]: or مَرَاقُّ [thus applied] has no sing. Also The soft part of the nose, in the side thereof; [i. e. each of the alæ thereof;] as also مُسْتَرَقٌّ : pl. as above.
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