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رُزْدَاقٌ ذ (S, Msb, K, &c.) and رُزْتَاقٌ (Lh, L, TA) and رُسْدَاقٌ (ISk, K) and رُسْتَاقٌ, (Lh, S, Msb, K, &c.,) but this last disallowed by ISk, (TA,) [though allowed by many others, and of frequent occurrence,] and said by some to be post-classical, and to be correctly رُزْدَاقٌ, (Msb,) arabicized, (S, Msb, K,) of Pers. origin, (S,) from رُوسْتَا, (K,) [erroneously] said by IF to be from رَزْدَقٌ signifying as explained above; (Msb;) A rural district; or district consisting of cultivated land with towns or villages; syn. سَوَادٌ, (S,) or سَوَادٌ and قُرًي: (K:) Yákoot explains رُسْتَاق as applied, in his time, in the country of the Persians, to any place [or district] in which are sown fields, and towns or villages; not to cities, like El-Basrah and Baghdád; so that it is, with the Persians, like سَوَادٌ with the people of Baghdád, and is a more special term than كُورَةٌ [in Arabic] and إِِسْتَان [in Persian]: (TA:) or it is used as meaning an outlying district, or a border-district, of a country: (Msb:) [but the correctness of this last explanation is questionable:] the pl. is رَزَادِيقُ (Msb) [and رَزَاتِيقُ and رَسَادِيقُ] and رَسَاتِيقُ (S, Msb) and رُزْدَاقَاتٌ (Har p. 249) [&c.].
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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