رُزْدَاقٌ

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رُزْدَاقٌ and رُزْتَاقٌ and رُسْدَاقٌ and رُسْتَاقٌ, but this last disallowed by ISk, [though allowed by many others, and of frequent occurrence,] and said by some to be post-classical, and to be correctly رُزْدَاقٌ, arabicized, of Pers. origin, from رُوسْتَا, [erroneously] said by IF to be from رَزْدَقٌ signifying as explained above; A rural district; or district consisting of cultivated land with towns or villages; syn. سَوَادٌ, or سَوَادٌ and قُرًي: Yákoot explains رُسْتَاق as applied, in his time, in the country of the Persians, to any place [or district] in which are sown fields, and towns or villages; not to cities, like El-Basrah and Baghdád; so that it is, with the Persians, like سَوَادٌ with the people of Baghdád, and is a more special term than كُورَةٌ [in Arabic] and إِسْتَان [in Persian]: or it is used as meaning an outlying district, or a border-district, of a country: [but the correctness of this last explanation is questionable:] the pl. is رَزَادِيقُ [and رَزَاتِيقُ and رَسَادِيقُ] and رَسَاتِيقُ and رُزْدَاقَاتٌ [&c.].

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