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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