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طرّق

Root: طرق

Form: 2

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طرّقII : see 1, former half.
2 طرّق طَرِيقًا He made a road plane, or even, so that people travelled it [or beat it with their feet] in their passing along. The saying لَا تُطَرِّقُوا المَسَاجِدَ means Make not ye the mosques to be roads [or places of passage]. طَرَّقْتُ لَهُ is from الطَّرِيقُ: you say, طرّق لَهَا [app. referring to camels] He made for them a road, or way: or طرّق لَهُ he gave a way to, or admitted, him, or it.
3 طَرَّقَتْ said of the [bird called] قَطَاة, peculiarly, (Verbal.Noun تَطْرِيقٌ, O, K,) She arrived at the time of her egg's coming forth: or she (a قطاة) hollowed out in the ground a place wherein to lay her eggs: as though she made a way for them: so says A Heyth: but the verb may be similarly used of other than the قطاة, metaphorically; whence the saying, قَدْ طَرَّقَتْ بِبِكْرِهَا أُمُّ طَبَقْ i. e. Calamity [has prepared to bring forth her first-born]. [Hence, app.,] one says also, ضَرَبَهُ حَتَّى طَرَّقَ بِجَعْرِهِ [He beat him until he gave passage, or was about to give passage, to his ordure]. And طرّق لِى, Verbal.Noun تَطْرِيقٌ, signifies أَخْرَجَ [app. meaning He gave forth, or produced, to me something].
4 طَرَّقَتْ بِوَلَدِهَا, said of a camel, means She brought forth with difficulty, her young one sticking fast, and not coming forth easily; and in like manner it is said of a woman: so in a verse of Ows Ibn-Hajar, cited voce نِفَاسٌ: or طرّقت said of a woman and of any pregnant female, means the half of her young one came forth, and then it stuck fast. [Hence,] طرّق فُلَانٌ بِحَقِّى Such a one acknowledged my right, or due, after disacknowledging it.
5 Accord. to AZ, طرّق الإِبِلَ means He withheld the camels from pasture, or from some other thing: Sh, however, says that he knew not this; but that IAar explained طَرَّفْتُ, with ف, as meaning “ I repelled. ”
6 أَخَذَ فُلَانٌ فِى التَّطْرِيقِ means Such a one practised artifice and divination.

def.2 طَرَّقْتُ التُّرْسَ I sewed the shield upon another skin: and طَرَّقْتُ النَّعْلَ, Verbal.Noun تَطْرِيقٌ, I made the sole of two pieces of skin, sewing one of them upon the other.
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