غَدَقٌ

[a verbal noun: and used in the sense of the particle n. غَدِقٌ, meaning] Abundant, or copious; applied to water; (S, O, Msb, K, TA;) not restricted to rain; (TA;) as also مُغْدِقٌ and مُغْدَوْدِقٌ, both applied to rain, and the latter [or both] applied to water [in general]; and غَيْدَاقٌ likewise, applied to water, and, as AA says, to rain: or غَدَقٌ is applied to rain as meaning abundant, or copious, [so as to be] general in its extent. (TA.) It is said in the Qur'an, 72:16, لَوِ اسْتَقَامُوا عَلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ لَأَسْقَيْنَاهُمْ مَاءً غَدَقًا [If they should go on undeviatingly in the way which they are pursuing, we would water then with abundant water]; (O, TA;) to try them thereby; the طريقة here being that of infidelity; so says Th, and in like manner Fr; but others say that it is that of the right direction: (TA:) 'Ásim Ibn-Abi-n-Najood read غَدِقًا. (O, TA.) In the saying, in a tradition, اَللّٰهُمَّ اسْقِنَا غَدَقًا مُغْدِقًا, the last word is used as a corroborative [the meaning being O God, water us very abundantly]. (TA.)