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رَكْضَةً ذ An impulse: a motion: (K:) [pl. رَكَضَاتٌ: see an ex. voce رَفَضَاتٌ.] Hence, (TA,) it is said in a trad. of I'Ab, that the blood which continues to flow after menstruation is رَكْضَةٌ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ, (S, * TA,) i. e. An impulse from the devil; (S;) whereby he finds a way of putting the woman in doubt respecting the affairs of her religion, and her state of pureness, and her prayer. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence also,] one of the names of [the well of] Zemzem is رَكْضَةُ جِبْرِيلَ [The impulse of Gabriel; because it is fabled to have gushed forth on the ground's being struck by Gabriel's wings]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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