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مَدَاقُّ

Root: دق

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مَدَاقُّ [a pl. of which the sing is not mentioned and app. is not used]. You say, يَتَتَبَّعُونَ مَدَاقَّ الأُمُورِ [and الأُمُورِ They pursue, or investigate, or they seek successively, time after time, or repeatedly, or in a leisurely manner, gradually, step by step, or one thing after another, to obtain a knowledge of,] the subtilties, niceties, abstrusities, or obscurities, of things, affairs, or cases. [And They pursue, &c, the minutiæ of things, affairs, or cases: or small, or little, things &c.; for in the phrase تَتَبَّعَ مَدَاقَّ الأُمُورِ (in the S in art. سف), مداقّ الامور signifies, accord. to the PS, small, or little, things &c.] And you say, أَسَفَّ إِلَى مَدَاقِّ الكَسْبِ [He pursued small means of gain]. (TA in art. دقع.) And أَسَفَّ إِلَى مَدَاقِّ الأُمُورِ وَأَلَائِمِهَا [lit. He pursued small, or little, things, and the meanest, or most ignoble, thereof]; meaning he became mean, or ignoble. (M in art. سف.)
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