خَرِيقٌ
Root: خرق
Full Definition
خَرِيقٌ
A womb rent by the fœtus, and that consequently does not conceive afterwards; [of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ;] as also
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2 And A she-camel whose womb has been rent. Applied to a well (بِئْر), it signifies الَّتِى كُسِرَ جِبْلَتُهَاعَنِ المَآءِ: [in the CK جَبَلَتُها: neither of these readings affords an admissible meaning: the right reading I believe to be جِيلُهَا; and the meaning, Of which the side, or lateral part, is broken, from the water upwards:] pl. خَرَائِقُ and خُرُقٌ, (Ibn-' Abbád, K, TA, [the latter erroneously written in the CK خُرُوْقٌ,]) like سَفَائِنُ and سُفْنٌ.
3 A channel of water that is not deep, and not without trees.
4 The place of expanding of a valley, where it ends.
5 A low, or depressed, tract of land, containing herbage: pl. خُرُقٌ. One says, مَرَرْتُ بِخَرِيقٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ بَيْنَ مَسْحَاوَيْنِ [I passed by a low tract of land, containing herbage, between two plain tracts containing small pebbles and without herbage].
6 Hard ground.
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2 And A she-camel whose womb has been rent. Applied to a well (بِئْر), it signifies الَّتِى كُسِرَ جِبْلَتُهَاعَنِ المَآءِ: [in the CK جَبَلَتُها: neither of these readings affords an admissible meaning: the right reading I believe to be جِيلُهَا; and the meaning, Of which the side, or lateral part, is broken, from the water upwards:] pl. خَرَائِقُ and خُرُقٌ, (Ibn-' Abbád, K, TA, [the latter erroneously written in the CK خُرُوْقٌ,]) like سَفَائِنُ and سُفْنٌ.
3 A channel of water that is not deep, and not without trees.
4 The place of expanding of a valley, where it ends.
5 A low, or depressed, tract of land, containing herbage: pl. خُرُقٌ. One says, مَرَرْتُ بِخَرِيقٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ بَيْنَ مَسْحَاوَيْنِ [I passed by a low tract of land, containing herbage, between two plain tracts containing small pebbles and without herbage].
6 Hard ground.
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