Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

إِرْتَكَضَ

Root: ركض

Form: 8

Full Definition

إِرْتَكَضَVIII see 6.
2 تَرَكْتُهُ يَرْتَكِضُ لِلْمَوْتِ [I left him struggling with, or convulsed in, his legs, previously to death: see also 1, near the beginning].
3 ارتكض also signifies It was, or became, in a state of commotion or agitation: said of a fœtus in the belly of a mare: and of water in a well.
4 ارتكض فُلَانٌ فِى أَمْرِهِ Such a one was, or became, agitated, or disturbed, or disquieted, in his affair: and, which implies the same, he exercised art, or cunning, (تَقَلَّبَ,) in his affair, and strove thereby to accomplish or effect it.
5 Hence اِرْتِكَاضٌ signifying The travel-ling through, or traversing, countries, or regions.
6 See also 4.


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