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مَا فِى عَيْشِهِ إِِلَّا رُمْقَةٌ ذ , (JK, K,) with damm, (K,) or ↓ رَمَقَةٌ , (S, [so in both of my copies,]) and ↓ رِمَاقٌ , (S,) or ↓ رَمَاقٌ , (JK,) or both, and ↓ رَمَقٌ , (K,) There is not in his means of subsistence save what is but just sufficient: (S, K:) or a small supply, that may stay, or arrest, the remains of life, or that may maintain the strength. (K.) The Arabs said, مَوْتٌ لَا يَجُرُّ إِِلَى عَارٍ خَيْرٌ ↓ مِنْ عَيْشٍ فِى رَمَاقٍ [Death that does not lead to disgrace is better than life with a bare sufficiency of sustenance]. (Yaakoob, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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