رقل
1 رَقڤلَ see the next paragraph. 4 ارقلت ذ , said of a palm-tree (نَخْلَة), inf. n. إِِرْقَالٌ, It became such as is termed رَقْلَة [q. v.]. (Msb.) ― -b2- ارقل, (S, K,) said of a he-camel, (S,) or ارقلت, said of a she-camel, (JK, Msb, TA,) inf. n. as above, (JK, S, Msb,) He, or she, went quickly; (JK, K;) went a sort of quick pace; (Msb;) went a sort of pace of the kind termed خَبَب [q. v.]: (S, TA:) or went a sort of run exceeding that termed خَبَب: (TA:) and ↓ رَقَلَتْ signifies the same as ارقلت. (JK.) ارقل is also said of a man, (S, K,) meaning (assumed tropical:) He went quickly. (TA.) And you say, ارقلوا فِى الحَرْبِ, (TA,) or إِِلَى الحَرْبِ, (JK,) (tropical:) They went quickly in, or to, war, or battle. (JK, TA.) And فُلَانٌ يُرْقِلُ فِى الأُمُورِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one is quick in affairs]. (TA.) And أَرْقَلَتْ إِِلَيْهِ is metaphorically said, by Aboo-Heiyeh En-Numeyree, of spears [as meaning (tropical:) They had been quickly directed towards him]. (TA.) -A2- Accord. to Lth and the K, ارقل also signifies He traversed, or crossed, a desert: and Lth cites the following verse of El-'Ajjáj [as his authority for this explanation]: “ لَاهُمَّ رَبِّ البَيْتِ وَالمُشَرَّقِوَالمُرْقِلَاتِ كُلَّ سُهْبٍ سَمْلَقِ
” but Az says that this is a mistake of Lth; that كُلَّ is here an adv. n.; and that the meaning is, [O God, by the Lord of the House (of Mekkeh) and of the Musharrak (the mosque of El-Kheyf) and] by the Lord of the swift she-camels in every even plain: and ISd also has notified the same. (TA.) رَقْلٌ ذ : see the next paragraph, in two places. رَقْلَةٌ ذ A tall palm-tree: (S, Msb:) or a palmtree exceeding the reach of the hand; (K, * TA;) above such as is termed جَبَّارَة: or this latter word, accord. to As, has this meaning; and the former word, a palm-tree higher than such as [just] exceeds the reach of the hand: (TA:) or a palmtree of which the trunk has become such as that one may reach [the fruit] from [the top of] it: (JK:) pl. رِقَالٌ (JK, S, Msb, K) and رَقَلَاتٌ (Msb) and ↓ رَقْلٌ , (K,) or [rather] of this last it is a n. un. (Msb.) Hence the prov., “ وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ بِالدَّخْلِ
↓تَرَى الفِتْيَانَ كَالرَّقْلِ
” [Thou seest the youths, or young men, like tall palm-trees, &c.; but what will acquaint thee with the vice, &c., that is, or may be, in them?]. (TA. [See also another reading of this verse voce دَخْلٌ.]) [And رَوَاقِلُ, pl. of ↓ رَاقِلٌ , as used by a Hudhalee poet, applied to the trunks of palmtrees, signifies Tall. (“ Abulfedæ Annales, ” vol. i. page 494.)] رَاقِلٌ ذ ; pl. رَوَاقِلُ: see what next precedes. رَاقُولٌ ذ A rope by means of which palm-trees are ascended; (S, TA;) so in one of the dials.; (TA;) i. q. حَابُولٌ [q. v.] (S, K) and كَرٌّ. (S.) مُرْقِلٌ ذ (S, K) and مُرْقِلَةٌ (ISd, K) and ↓ مِرْقَالٌ (S, K) applied to a she-camel, (S, ISd, K,) That goes quickly: (K:) or that goes in the manner termed إِِرْقَال much, or often: (S, TA:) and مَرَاقِيلُ [as pl. of the last] is applied [in like manner] to she-camels. (TA.) [Hence,] فِى الأُمُورِ ↓ فُلَانٌ مِرْقَالٌ [Such a one is quick in affairs]. (TA.) مِرْقَالٌ ذ ; pl. مَرَاقِيلُ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.
