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أَرَقَانٌ ذ (JK, S, K) and أَرُقَانٌ and أَرْقَانٌ and إِِرِقَانٌ and إِِرْقَانٌ and ↓ أَرْقٌ and ↓ أُرَاقٌ (K) i. q. يَرَقَانٌ; (JK, S, K;) أرَقَانٌ being a dial. var. of this last; (S;) or the hemzeh is a substitute for the ى; (L;) and يرقان is the word most commonly known; (K;) A blight, or disease, which affects, or smites, seed-produce: (JK, S, K:) and a disease [namely jaundice] which affects, or smites, man, (S, K,) causing the person to become yellow [or blackish]; (TA;) it is a disease which changes the colour of the person excessively to yellowness or blackness, by the flowing of the yellow or black humour to the skin and the part next thereto, without putridity. (Ibn-Seenà [Avicenna], K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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