مَدَاقُّ

[a plural of which the sing is not mentioned and apparently is not used]. You say, يَتَتَبَّعُونَ مَدَاقَّ الأُمُورِ [and الأُمُورِ ↓ دَقَايءِقَ (assumed tropical:) They pursue, or investigate, or they seek successively, time after time, or repeatedly, or in a leisurely manner, gradually, step by step, or one thing after another, to obtain a knowledge of,] the subtilties, niceties, abstrusities, or obscurities, of things, affairs, or cases. (TA.) [And (assumed tropical:) They pursue, &c, the minutiæ of things, affairs, or cases: or small, or little, things &c.; for in the phrase تَتَبَّعَ مَدَاقَّ الأُمُورِ (in the S in article سف), مداقّ الامور signifies, according to the PS, small, or little, things &c.] And you say, أَسَفَّ إِلَى مَدَاقِّ الكَسْبِ (assumed tropical:) [He pursued small means of gain]. (TA in article دقع.) And أَسَفَّ إِلَى مَدَاقِّ الأُمُورِ وَأَلَايءِمِهَا [lit. (assumed tropical:) He pursued small, or little, things, and the meanest, or most ignoble, thereof]; meaning he became mean, or ignoble. (M in article سف.)