أَرِقَ

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أَرِقَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَرَقٌ, He was sleepless, or wakeful, or sleep departed from him, by night; i. q. سَهِرَ بِاللَّيْلِ; or i. q. سَهِدَ: (S, and L and K in art. سهد:) or sleep departed from him by reason of a malady, or a distracting accident or event: or he was sleepless or wakeful (سَهِرَ) in a case that was disliked, or evil; سَهِرَ having a general sense: or he shut his eyes one while and opened them another, [being unable to continue sleeping,] whereas سَهِرَ signifies he did not sleep at all: or أَرَقٌ signifies sleeplessness, or wakefulness, engendered by anxiety and grief: and [with the disjunctive alif written اِيتَرَقَ] signifies the same as أَرِقَ.

def.2 أُرِقَتِ النَّخْلَةُ [and أُرِقَ الزّرْعُ] The palm-tree [and the seed-produce] was affected, or smitten, by what is termed أَرَقَان.

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