Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُرْقِصٌ

Root: رقص

Full Definition

مُرْقِصٌ Speech, or language, that makes one to be affected with a lively emotion of joy, or of grief. You say also, هٰذِهِ مُرْقِصَةُ الصُّوفِيَّةِ [app. meaning, This is that poem, or ode, which makes the mystics to dance; or to be affected with a lively emotion of joy: for darweeshes are often seen to be excited to frantic ecstasy, or ecstatic catalepsy, by certain love-songs designed to have a mystic religious sense].
2 فَلَاةٌ مُرْقِصَةٌ A desert that makes the traverser thereof to hasten, or go quickly.


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