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طَرَقٌ

Root: طرق

Full Definition

طَرَقٌ : see طَرْقٌ, third quarter.
2 Also i. q. مُذَلَّلٌ [applied to a beast, app. to a camel,] meaning Rendered submissive, or tractable; or broken.

def.2 It is also pl. of طَرَقَةٌ , [or rather is a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is طَرَقَةٌ,] which latter signifies A row of bricks in a wall, or of other things, or [particularly] of palm-trees.
2 Also, ↓ the latter, [as is expressly stated in the TA, and indicated in the S and O, (آثارُ and بَعْضُهَا in the CK being mistakes for آثارِ and بَعْضِهَا,)] The foot-marks [or track] of camels following near after one another. You say, جَآءَتِ الإِبِلُ عَلَى وَاحِدَةٍ The camels came upon one track [or in one line]; like as you say, عَلَى خُفٍّ وَاحِدٍ. (S, O. [See also a similar phrase voce مِطْرَاقٌ.]) And Aboo-Turáb mentions, as a phrase of certain of BenooKiláb, مَرَرْتُ عَلَى الإِبِلِ and عَرَقَتِهَا, meaning I went upon the track of the camels.
3 See also طَرْقٌ, last quarter.

def.3 Also, i. e. طَرَقٌ, A duplicature, or fold, (ثِنْى, in the CK [erroneously] ثَنْى,) of a water-skin: and أَطْرَاقٌ is its pl., signifying its duplicatures, or folds, when it is bent, or when it is doubled, or folded, and bent.
2 And أَطْرَاقُ البَطْنِ The parts of the belly that lie one above another when it is wrinkled: pl. of طَرَقٌ.
3 طَرَقٌ in the feathers of a bird is their Overlying one another: or, accord. to the A, it is softness and flaccidity therein.
4 [Also Verbal.Noun of طَرِقَ, q. v.]
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