رِوَاقٌ

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رِوَاقٌ and رُوَاقٌ and رَوَاقٌ A بَيْت [or tent] like the فُسْطَاط [q. v.], supported upon one pole in the middle thereof; as also رَوْقٌ ; (K, * TA; expl. in the former as signifying a فُسْطَاط; and its pl. أَرْوَاقٌ is expl. in the S as signifying فَسَاطِيطُ;) accord. to Lth: or a roof in the front, or fore part, of a بَيْت [or tent]; as also رَوْقٌ : or a curtain that is extended below the roof; as also رَوْقٌ ; which latter is expl. in the K as signifying simply a curtain: or the رِوَاق of a بَيْت [or tent] is the curtain of the front, or fore part, thereof, extending from the top thereof to the ground: a [piece of cloth such as is called] كِسَآء let down upon the front, or fore part, of a بَيْت, from the top thereof to the ground: رَوْقٌ signifies the same as رِوَاقٌ: and each signifies the شُقَّة [or oblong piece of cloth] that is beneath the upper, or uppermost, شُقَّة of a بَيْت [or tent]: or sometimes the رواق is one such piece of cloth, and sometimes of two such pieces, and sometimes of three: and, or as some say, رِوَاقٌ signifies the front, or fore part, of a بَيْت [or tent]; as also رَوْقٌ ; its hinder part being called its كِفَآء, and its two sides being called its خَالِفَتَانِ; whence the saying, قَعَدُوا فِى بَيْتِهِ and رِوَاقِ بَيْتِهِ, i. e. [They sat in] the front or fore part [of his tent]: and رَوْقٌ also signifies a tent; as in the saying, ضَرَبَ رَوْقَهُ [He pitched his tent]: and [hence] the place of the huntsman [in which he conceals himself to lie in wait]; as being likened to the رواق: and رواق signifies also a place that affords shelter in rain: [and a portico; and particularly such as surrounds the court of a mosque; (see سُدَّةٌ;) in some of the large collegiate mosques, as, for instance, in the mosque El-Azhar, in Cairo, divided into a number of distinct apartments for students of different provinces or countries, each of which apartments by itself is termed a رِوَاق:] the pl. of رواق is أَرْوِقَةٌ and رُوقٌ; the former a pl. of pauc. and the latter of mult.
2 [Hence, الرِّوَاقُ مِنَ السَّحَابِ, expl. in the TA as meaning ما دار مِنْهُ كَرِوَاقِ البَيْتِ: but دار is here evidently a mistranscription for كَانَ; and the meaning is, The part, of the clouds, that resembles the رواق of the tent. See also رَوْقُ السَّحَابِ, near the end of the paragraph commencing with رَوْقٌ.]
3 [Hence also,] رِوَاقُ اللَّيْلِ [The curtain of night: and] the first part of night; and the greater, or main, part thereof. (ISd, K. [It is implied in the latter that one says also in this instance and in the next رُوَاق.]) You say, of night, مَدَّ رِوَاقَ ظُلْمَتِهِ [It extended the curtain of its darkness]: and أَلْقَى أَرْوِقَتَهُ [It let fall its curtains]. [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce مُرِمٌّ, in art. رم.]
4 And رِوَاقُ العَيْنِ The eyebrow.

def.2 رِوَاقُ [imperfectly decl. as being a proper name and of the fem. gender, though it is implied in the K that it is الرِّوَاقُ and الرُّوَاقُ,] is a name for The ewe, by which she is called to be milked, by the cry رِوَاق رِوَاق; but not unless she be [app., if not a mistranscription for وَرْقَآء, formed from this latter by transposition, and thus meaning dusky: see أَرْوَقُ].

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