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رَحِيقٌ

Root: رحق

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رَحِيقٌ Wine: or the choicest of wine: or the sweetest of wine: or the most excellent thereof: or the oldest and most excellent thereof: or unadulterated wine: or wine that is easy to swallow: or pure wine: or clear wine: as also رُحَاقٌ : in all of these senses the former word has been explained as used in the Kur lxxxiii. 25: and ↓ the latter occurs as syn. with the former in chaste poetry.
2 Also A sort of perfume.
3 And Honey.
4 [And it is used as an epithet.] You say مِسْكٌ رَحِيقٌ Unadulterated musk. And حَسَبٌ رَحِيقٌ Pure, or genuine, grounds of pretension to respect.
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