رَقْلَةٌ
Root: رقل
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رَقْلَةٌ
A tall palm-tree: or a palmtree exceeding the reach of the hand; above such as is termed
جَبَّارَة: or this latter word, accord. to As, has this meaning; and the former word, a palm-tree higher than such as [just] exceeds the reach of the hand: or a palmtree of which the trunk has become such as that one may reach [the fruit] from [the top of] it: pl. رِقَالٌ and رَقَلَاتٌ and
رَقْلٌ , or [rather] of this last it is a n. un. Hence the prov.,
[Thou seest the youths, or young men, like tall palm-trees, &c.; but what will acquaint thee with the vice, &c., that is, or may be, in them?]. (TA. [See also another reading of this verse voce دَخْلٌ.]) [And رَوَاقِلُ, pl. of رَاقِلٌ , as used by a Hudhalee poet, applied to the trunks of palmtrees, signifies Tall. ]وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ بِالدَّخْلِ ↓تَرَى الفِتْيَانَ كَالرَّقْلِ
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