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مِخْرَاقٌ مخراق A kerchief twisted for the purpose of beating therewith: (JK, S:) a genuine Arabic word: (S:) or a thing made of twisted rags, with which boys play: (TA:) or a twisted kerchief, or an inflated [skin such as is termed] زِقّ, or the like, with which boys play, beating one another therewith: so called because it rends (يَخْرِقُ) the air when they make use of it: (Ham p. 702:) pl. مَخَارِيقُ. (S, TA.) 'Amr Ibn-Kulthoom says, “ كَأَنَّ سُيُوفَنَا مِنَّا وَمِنْهُمْ
مَخَارِيقٌ بِأَيْدِى لَا عِبِينَا
” [As though our swords, ours and theirs, were kerchiefs twisted for beating therewith, in the hands of players]: (S:) or مخاريق in this verse [written with tenween by poetic license] is the pl. of مِخْرَاقٌ signifying a wooden sword with which boys play: the poet means, we cared not for the smiting with the swords, like as the players care not for the smiting with the مخاريق. (EM p. 198.) [See also another ex., in a verse cited voce خَرِيجٌ.] 'Alee is related, in a trad., to have said that the lightning is the مَخَارِيق of the angels; (S, TA;) meaning thereby the instruments with which the angels chide and drive the clouds. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A garment, or piece of cloth. (JK. [But this I find not elsewhere.]) ― -b3- And (tropical:) A sword [in the ordinary sense of the word]: so in the A and O and L: in the K, السَّيِّدُ is erroneously put for السَّيْفُ. (TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) A man goodly in body, or person, whether tall or not tall. (JK, K.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) One who falls not into a case without escaping, or extricating himself, therefrom. (Sh, TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) One who exercises art in the management of affairs. (K.) ― -b7- (tropical:) A wild bull: (As, K:) so called because he traverses far-extending districts: (As, TA:) or because the dogs pursue him and he escapes from them: said in the A to be called مِخْرَاقُ المَفَازَةِ. (TA.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) A man who engages in wars, or fights, and is active therein. (S, K.) ― -b9- See also خِرْقٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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