أُمُّ الرُّبَيْقِ

Calamity, or misfortune: (JK, S, K:) whence the prov., جَاءَنَا بِأمِّ الرُّبَيْقِ عَلَى أُرَيْقِ, (TA,) meaning He brought us a great calamity, or misfortune: (K in article ارق:) As says that the Arabs assert it to have been said by a man who saw the ghool upon a dusky white camel (جَمَل أَوْرَق); (S in that article, and TA;) أُرَيْق being the diminutive of أَوْرَق: (K in that article:) or امّ الربيق is a name of war, or battle: or the viper: (JK, Ibn-'Abbád, TA:) this last signification is held to be correct by Z, because, he says, the viper is short, and when it folds itself it resembles the رِبَق (TA.)