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رَقْرَاقٌ ذ : see رُقَارِقٌ. ― -b2- Also, applied to a collection of clouds (سَحَابٌ), Going and coming. (TA.) See also the next paragraph. ― -b3- Applied to tears (دَمْعٌ), Going round about at the inner edge of the eyelid. (TA.) ― -b4- Anything shining, or glistening. (S, TA.) [Hence,] رَقْرَاقَةٌ A woman (As, TA) as though water were running upon her face: (As, K, TA:) or رَقْرَاقَةُ البَشَرَةِ a girl whose external skin shines, or glistens, (Ham p. 622, and TA,) with whiteness: (TA:) pl. رَقَارِقُ, applied to soft, or tender, young women. (Ham ubi suprà.) [Hence also,] الرَّقْرَاقُ is The name of a sword of Saad Ibn-'Obádeh El-Ansáree. (K.) ― -b5- Applied to a day, i. q. صَارٌّ [app. a mistranscription for حَارٌّ, i. e. Hot; like رَقَاقٌ; as though shining, or glistening, with the sunlight]. (Fr, TA.) -A2- The تَرَقْرُق [or commotion, or moving to and fro, or coming and going, whether real or apparent,] of the سَرَاب [or mirage], and of anything that shines, or glistens. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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