عَرِيكَةٌ

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عَرِيكَةٌ A camel's hump: or the remainder thereof: or عَرِيكَةُ السَّنَامِ signifies what remains of the hump: so called because the purchaser feels that part (يَعْرُكُهُ) to know the fatness and strength [of the animal]: pl. عَرَائِكُ; which is said by some to signify the humps with the backs.
2 [Hence, in phrases here following,] Nature; natural, native, or innate, disposition or temper or the like; and soul, spirit, or mind. One says, فُلَانٌ لَيِّنُ العَرِيكَةِ Such a one is easy, or gentle, in natural disposition, submissive, tractable; one whose pride, or haughtiness, has been broken, or subdued; having little contrariness and aversion: and شَدِيدُ العَرِيكَةِ strong in spirit, incompliant, or resisting: and لَانَتْ عَرِيكَتُهُ His pride, or haughtiness, became broken, or subdued: originally relating to the camel; for they used to betake themselves to the camel when he had the disposition of refusing to be ridden or mounted, and incompliance, and cut [a part] in his hump, it being high, difficult to ride upon; and when this was done, he became quiet, and was rendered inclinable, and the part of him that was the place of riding became easy to sit upon; so one said, قَدْ لَانَتْ عَرِيكَتُهُ One says also رَجُلٌ مَيْمُونُ العَرِيكَةِ, meaning [A man fortunate, happy, or blest, in natural disposition, or] in mind.

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