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طَقْ ذ a word imitative of a sound; and sometimes they said ↓ طَقْطَقَةٌ : (IDrd, O, TA:) or the former is a word imitative of The sound of stones; and ↓ the latter is its noun: (K:) one says, الحِجَارَةِسَمِعْتُ طَقْطَقَةَ I heard [the sound of] the falling of the stones, one upon another, when they rolled down from a mountain: (IDrd, O:) or طَقْ is a word imitative of the sound of the stone and of the solid hoof; and ↓ طَقْطَقَةٌ signifies the action thereof: (M, TA:) or this latter is a word imitative of the sound of the successive falling of stones, one upon another: (IDrd, O:) or this word signifies the sound of the legs of horses upon the hard ground; (IAar, TA;) [or] sometimes it signifies also the sound of the solid hoofs upon the ground; (IDrd, O;) or the sounds of the hoofs of horses or similar beasts [with quick reiteration]; like دَقْدَقَةٌ; and sometimes they said ↓ حَبَطِقْطِقْ , of which El-Mázinee cites an ex.; (S, O;) but [J says] I have not seen this except in his book: (S:) another ex. of it, however, is cited by Lth. (TA.)

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