مِخْرَاقٌ
Root: خرق
Full Definition
مِخْرَاقٌ
A kerchief twisted for the purpose of beating therewith: a genuine Arabic word: or a thing made of twisted rags, with which boys play: or a twisted kerchief, or an inflated [skin such as is termed] زِقّ, or the like, with which boys play, beating one another therewith: so called because it rends (يَخْرِقُ) the air when they make use of it: pl. مَخَارِيقُ. 'Amr Ibn-Kulthoom says,
2 Also A garment, or piece of cloth.
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[As though our swords, ours and theirs, were kerchiefs twisted for beating therewith, in the hands of players]: or مخاريق in this verse [written with tenween by poetic license] is the pl. of مِخْرَاقٌ signifying a wooden sword with which boys play: the poet means, we cared not for the smiting with the swords, like as the players care not for the smiting with the مخاريق. [See also another ex., in a verse cited voce خَرِيجٌ.] 'Alee is related, in a trad., to have said that the lightning is the مَخَارِيق of the angels; meaning thereby the instruments with which the angels chide and drive the clouds.كَأَنَّ سُيُوفَنَا مِنَّا وَمِنْهُمْ مَخَارِيقٌ بِأَيْدِى لَا عِبِينَا
2 Also A garment, or piece of cloth.
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