Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تَطَارُقٌ

Root: طرق

Form: 6

Full Definition

تَطَارُقٌVI signifies The coming consecutively, or being consecutive. You say, تطارقت الإِبِلُ The camels came following one another, the head of each. [except the first] being at the tail of the next [before it], whether tied together in a file or not: or went away, one after another; as also ; in the S, incorrectly, ; in mentioned in the K, in another part of the art., and there expl. as meaning the followed one another; but the verb in this sense is : and, as some say, this last signifies they scattered, or dispersed, themselves upon the roads, and quitted the main beaten tracks: As cited as an ex., describing camels, جَآءَتْ مَعًا شَتِيتَا meaning They came together, and went away in a state of dispersion. And you say, تطارق الظَّلَامُ وَالغَمَامُ The darkness and the clouds were, or became, consecutive. And تطارقت عَلَيْنَا الأَخْبَارُ [The tidings came to us consecutively].


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