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رَقِيعٌ

Root: رقع

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رَقِيعٌ Patched; a garment, or the like, having a piece of cloth put in a place thereof that is cut or rent; as also مَرْقُوعٌ .
2 And hence, Stupid, foolish, deficient in sense; in whose intellect is something needing repair; [so I render فِى عَقْلِهِ مَرَمَّةٌ;] shattered, or marred, in his intellect; as also أَرْقَعُ , and مَرْقَعَانٌ ; or unsound in intellect; likened to a ragged, or old and worn-out, garment; as though patched: or a man whose judgment, and state of affairs or circumstances, have become shattered, disorganized, dissipated, marred, or impaired: fem. [of أَرْقَعُ ] رَقْعَآءُ, but this is post-classical; and [of مَرْقَعَانٌ] .
3 Hence also, الرَّقِيعُ The first heaven; i. e. the heaven of the lower world; [agreeing with the Hebrew term; an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates; for السَّمَآءُ الرَّقِيعُ; and therefore, properly, fem.; though an instance occurs of its being used as a masc. noun, as will be seen below;] so called because it is [as though it were] patched with the stars, or with the lights which are therein; as also : or the heaven, or sky: and also each one of the seven heavens; each of them being a cover to that which is next to it [beneath, so that each, except the highest, is as though it were patched over by the next above it, the highest being in like manner covered over by the كُرْسِىّ,] like as the garment is patched with the رُقْعَة: pl. أَرْقِعَةٌ. It is said in a trad., لَقَدْ حَكَمْتُ بِحُكْمِ ٱللّٰهِ مِنْ فَوْقِ سَبْعَةِ أَرْقِعَةٍ Verily I have decreed by the decree of God written upon the preserved tablet above seven heavens: the speaker thus making رقيع masc., as though he regarded it as meaning سَقْفٌ. [See also رَقْعٌ.]
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