الرُّبَيْقِ
Root: ربق
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الرُّبَيْقِ
Calamity, or misfortune: whence the prov., جَآءَنَا بِأمِّ الرُّبَيْقِ عَلَى أُرَيْقِ, meaning He brought us a great calamity, or misfortune: (K in art. ارق:) As says that the Arabs assert it to have been said by a man who saw the ghool upon a dusky white camel (جَمَل
أَوْرَق); أُرَيْق being the dim. of أَوْرَق: or امّ الربيق is a name of war, or battle: or the viper: this last signification is held to be correct by Z, because, he says, the viper is short, and when it folds itself it resembles the رِبَق
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