Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and Al Mawrid — All in One Search

رَتَقَ

Root: رتق

Form: 1

Full Definition

رَتَقَI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun رَتْقٌ, He closed up, and repaired, a rent: [he sewed up, or together: see رِتَاقٌ:] الرَّتْقُ is the contr. of الفَتْقُ.
2 [Hence,] one says, رَتَقَ فَتْقَهُمْ, meaning [He closed up the breach that was between them; he reconciled them; or] he reformed, or amended, the circumstances subsisting between them.

def.2 رَتِقَتْ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun رَتَقٌ, in the K, erroneously, رَتَقَةٌ, She was, or became, such as is termed رَتْقَآء; said of a woman, or of a girl, and also of a camel.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mawrid

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Free

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more