أرق

See also: ارق‎ and آرق‎

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ء ر ق‎ (ʔ-r-q).

Verb

أَرِقَ • (ʔariqa) I, non-past يَأْرَقُ‎‎ (yaʔraqu)

  1. to be sleepless
Conjugation

Verb

أَرَّقَ • (ʔarraqa) II, non-past يُؤَرِّقُ‎‎ (yuʔarriqu)

  1. to make sleepless
    • 13th Century CE, Al-Busiri, Qasīdat al-Burda:
      ‏نَعَمْ سَرَى طَيْفُ مَنْ أَهْوَى فَأَرَّقَنِي‎‎
      naʕam sarā ṭayfu man ʔahwā faʔarraqanī
      Yes! Thoughts of the beloved came to me at night and kept me from sleeping.
Conjugation

Noun

أَرَق • (ʔaraq) m

  1. verbal noun of أَرِقَ (ʔariqa) (form I)
  2. insomnia
Declension

Etymology 2

Elative of رَقِيق‎ (raqīq, “thin, slim; delicate; soft”), from the root ر ق ق‎ (r-q-q).

Adjective

أَرَقّ • (ʔaraqq)

  1. elative degree of رَقِيق‎ (raqīq):
    1. thinner, slimmer; thinnest, slimmest
    2. more delicate; most delicate
    3. softer; softest
Declension
References
  • Freytag, Georg (1830), “أرق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 27
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), “أرق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 50
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “أرق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 20
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “أرق”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
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