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رَكِيَّةٌ

Root: ركو

Full Definition

رَكِيَّةٌ A well: or a well containing water; otherwise a well is not thus called: or a well not made neat; or not constructed [or cased] with bricks [&c.]: pl. رَكَايَا and رَكِىٌّ , or the former is the pl. and ↓ the latter is [properly speaking] a gen. n., [i. e. a coll. gen. n.,] and often occurs as a sing. and as a pl., or the pl. is also رُكِىٌّ: accord. to ISd, it is from رَكَا in the first of the senses assigned to this verb above.
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