مَرْقُومٌ

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مَرْقُومٌ Written; as also رَقِيمٌ : and sealed, stamped, imprinted, or impressed: and a writing marked with the dots, or points, and having its letters made distinct, or plain: [i. e. distinctly written:] and مُرَقَّمٌ signifies the same: the first occurs in the Kur [lxxxiii. 9 and 20], in the phrase كِتَابٌ مَرْقُومٌ, meaning, in both instances, [as some say, a writing] sealed, or stamped.
2 See also رَقْمٌ.
3 Also A beast having small marks of cauterization upon his shanks; every one of which is termed رَقْمَةٌ: or دَابَّةٌ مَرْقُومَةٌ means a beast having lines of cauterization upon its legs. It is also applied as an epithet to a wild ass, because of a blackness upon his legs: or مَرْقُومُ القَوَائِمِ, so applied, and applied to a [wild] bull, means Having lines of black upon his legs.
4 And مَرْقُومَةٌ Land (أَرْضٌ) in which is little herbage: or in which is the plant called رَقْمَة.

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