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تَرْقُوَةٌ أرق رقى رقي ترقى ترقوه ترقوة The collar-bone; the bone between the pit at the uppermost part of the chest and the shoulder, (JK, S, Mgh, K,) on either side, connecting those two parts, (JK, Mgh,) of a man &c.; (TA;) each of the two prominent bones in the uppermost part of the chest, from the head of each shoulder to the edge of the pit above mentioned: (TA in art. ترب:) [and sometimes, as in a phrase which see below,] the fore part of the حَلْق [here app. meaning the throat], at the uppermost part of the chest, the place into which the soul [for النَّفَسُ, in copies of the K, I read النَّفْسُ] rises [when one is at the point of death]: (K in art. رقو:) pl. تراقٍ (JK, Mgh, K) and ترائِق; (JK, K;) the latter formed by transposition: (JK:) Fr says that the latter pl. is used by some for the former: (TA:) the sing. is of the measure فَعْلُوَةٌ, (JK, S, K,) as is shown by the verb mentioned above, (K,) though it is repeated in the K in art. رقو: (TA:) one should not say تُرْقُوَةٌ, with damm to the ت. (S K.) إِِذَا بَلَغَتِ التَّرَاقِىَ, in the Kur lxxv. 26, means When it (the soul) reaches the uppermost parts of the chest; [or, the parts of the throat next the chest;] for النَّفْسُ is understood: (Bd:) said when one is at the point of death. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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