تَرِيكَةٌ
Root: ترك
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تَرِيكَةٌ
A woman that is left unmarried; that has remained a virgin, unmarried, until she has become of middle age, or long after she has attained to puberty, in the house, or tent, of her parents: it is not applied to a male: pl. تَرَائِكُ.
2 A meadow the depasturing of which has been neglected: or a pasture-land where people have pastured their beasts, either in a desert or upon a mountain, and of which the beasts have eaten until there remain [only] some relics of wood.
3 Water left by a torrent: used in this sense by El-Farezdak.
4 An egg after the young bird has gone forth from it: or an ostrich's egg which she forsakes in the desert after it has become empty: or, as some say, an ostrich's eggs left solitary: and تَرْكَةٌ signifies the same. [For the pl., see the next sentence.]
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6 A raceme of dates (كِبَاسَة [in the CK, erroneously, كُناسة]) after it has had what was upon it shaken off, and is left: pl. تَرَائِكُ: and تَرِيكٌ signifies a raceme (عُنْقٌود) when what was upon it has been eaten; and a raceme of dates (عِذْق) that has had what was upon it shaken off, so that nothing remains upon it: so AHn says in one place.
7 It is said in a trad., إِنَّ لِلّهِ تَرَائِكَ فِى خَلْقِهِ, meaning [Verily to God are referrible] conditions which He hath perpetuated in mankind, of hope and heedlessness, so that they apply themselves thereby with boldness, forwardness, presumptuousness, or arrogance, to the things of the present world.
2 A meadow the depasturing of which has been neglected: or a pasture-land where people have pastured their beasts, either in a desert or upon a mountain, and of which the beasts have eaten until there remain [only] some relics of wood.
3 Water left by a torrent: used in this sense by El-Farezdak.
4 An egg after the young bird has gone forth from it: or an ostrich's egg which she forsakes in the desert after it has become empty: or, as some say, an ostrich's eggs left solitary: and تَرْكَةٌ signifies the same. [For the pl., see the next sentence.]
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6 A raceme of dates (كِبَاسَة [in the CK, erroneously, كُناسة]) after it has had what was upon it shaken off, and is left: pl. تَرَائِكُ: and تَرِيكٌ signifies a raceme (عُنْقٌود) when what was upon it has been eaten; and a raceme of dates (عِذْق) that has had what was upon it shaken off, so that nothing remains upon it: so AHn says in one place.
7 It is said in a trad., إِنَّ لِلّهِ تَرَائِكَ فِى خَلْقِهِ, meaning [Verily to God are referrible] conditions which He hath perpetuated in mankind, of hope and heedlessness, so that they apply themselves thereby with boldness, forwardness, presumptuousness, or arrogance, to the things of the present world.
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