ر • م • ق

, (S, Mgh, K,) aor. رَمُقَ , (S, Mgh,) inf. n. رَمْقٌ, (S,) He looked at him, or it; (S, TA;) as also ↓رَامقهُ: (TA:) or he glanced lightly at him, or it; looked at him, or it, lightly, from the outer angle of the eye: (IDrd, K, TA:) or he looked long at him, or it; (Mgh;) or so رَمَقَهُ بِعَيْنِهِ, aor. and inf. n. as above: (Msb:) whence, in a trad., فَرَمَقَهُ النَّاسُ بِأَبْصَارهِمْ [And the people looked long at him]: (Mgh:) or رَمَقْتُهُ بِبَصَرِى and ↓ رَامَقْتُهُ signify I followed him with my eye, paying attention to him, and watching him: (TA:) and ↓ رامقهُ, (TA,) inf. n. رِمَاقٌ, (K, * TA,) he looked at him from the outer angle of the eye with a look of enmity: (K, * TA:) and ↓ رمّقهُ, inf. n. تَرْميقٌ, he looked at him long from the outer angle of the eye with anger or aversion: (TA:) and ↓ رمّق, inf. n. as above, he continued looking; like رنّق. (S, TA.)

He, or it, stayed, or arrested, what remained in him of life. (TA.) [Hence,] هُمْ يُرَمِّقُونَهُ بِشَىْءٍ They give him something sufficient to stay, or arrest, what remains in him of life. (O, TA.) [The inf. n.] تَرْمِيقٌ also signifies The scanting of fodder and drink. (JK.) [And The drinking little by little.] One says, رَمَّدَتِ المِعْزَى فَرَمِّقْ رَمِّقْ, meaning [The she-goats have secreted milk in their udders: therefore] drink thou their milk little by little; drink thou &c.: (IF, K, TA:) because they secrete milk some days before their bringing forth: (IF, TA:) or because they will bring forth after a while. (K, TA. [See also arts. رمد and ربق and رنق : and see 5 in the present art.]) Also The doing a work not well, yet so as to satisfy oneself, or to attain one's desire, thereby. (K, TA. [See also 3.]) You say, هُوَيُرَمِّقُ فِى الشَّىْءِ He does not exert himself, or take pains, or exceed the usual bounds, in doing the thing. (TA.) And رَمِّقْ عَلَى مَزَادَتَيْكَ Repair thou thy pair of leathern water-bags sufficiently to satisfy thyself. (O, TA.) And The interlarding, or embellishing, of speech, or discourse, with falsehood; تَرْمِيقُ الكَلَامِ signifying تَلْقِيقُهُ; (Ibn-'Abbád, K;) as also تَرْبِيقُهُ. (Ibn-'Abbád and K in art. ربق.) You say, رمّق الكَلَامَ He interlarded, or embellished, the speech, or discourse, with falsehood, (لَفَّقَهُ, Z, or لَفَّقَ بَيْنَهُ, JK,) [adding] thing after thing, or thing by thing. (Z, TA.) -A2- See also 1, in two places.

He drank milk little by little. (K. [See also 2.]) And He supped, or sipped, water, (S, K,) &c., sup after sup, or sip after sip. (K.)

It (a skin, or hide, إِهَابٌ,) was, or became, thin. (K.) Hence, said of life or the means of subsistence (العَيْشُ) [as meaning (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, narrow in its circumstances, or scanty; like رَقَّ]. (TA.) It (an affair, S, or a thing, IDrd, K,) was, or became, weak; (IDrd, S, K;) and so ↓ ارماقّ said of a rope: (S, K:) or the former verb, said of a rope, it was, or became, weak in its strands. (IDrd, TA.) ارمقّت الغَنَمُ The sheep, or goats, died: (IDrd, K:) and ↓ ارماقّت they (sheep, or goats,) perished, or died, by reason of leanness, or emaciation: (Ibn- 'Abbád, TA:) or ارماقّ signifies he perished, or died, by reason thereof. (K.) ارمقّ الطَّرِيقُ The road was, or became, long. (TA: but the verb is there written without the sheddeh.)

Sustenance that stays, or arrests, the remains of life; or that maintains the strength; expl. by يُمْسِكُ الرَّمَقَ. (IF, Msb, K.) -A2- [And accord. to Golius, on the authority of a gloss in the KL, رَمِقٌ is used for رَوْنَقٌ, as signifying Fairness, beauty, or brightness: and also as meaning Bright, and clear.]

and ↓ مُرَمَّقٌ Mean, paltry, or scanty, means of subsistence. (S, O.) And هُوَ مُرْمَقُّ العَيْشِ, (A 'Obeyd, K,) and ↓ مُرَمَّقُهُ, (IDrd, K,) He is one who has mean, paltry, or scanty, means of subsistence: (A 'Obeyd, K:) or he is straitened in the means of subsistence. (IDrd, K.) مُرْمَقٌّ also signifies Anything bad, or corrupt. (TA.)

[in which the latter word is a pl., like أَرْمَاثٌ in the phrase حَبْلٌ أَرْمَاثٌ,] A rope that is weak, (S, K, TA,) old and worn out. (TA.)

, (JK, K,) with damm, (K,) or ↓ رَمَقَةٌ, (S, [so in both of my copies,]) and ↓ رِمَاقٌ, (S,) or ↓ رَمَاقٌ, (JK,) or both, and ↓ رَمَقٌ, (K,) There is not in his means of subsistence save what is but just sufficient: (S, K:) or a small supply, that may stay, or arrest, the remains of life, or that may maintain the strength. (K.) The Arabs said, مَوْتٌ لَا يَجُرُّ إِلَى عَارٍ خَيْرٌ ↓ مِنْ عَيْشٍ فِى رَمَاقٍ [Death that does not lead to disgrace is better than life with a bare sufficiency of sustenance]. (Yaakoob, TA.)

One who is at the last gasp. (TA.) [See also رَامِقٌ.] And (assumed tropical:) One who has but little love, or affection, for thee remaining in his heart. (S, K.)

, applied to a man, i. q. ذُو رَمَقٍ [i. e. Having, or retaining, remains of life: a possessive epithet, of the class of لَابِنٌ and تَامِرٌ & c.]. (TA.) See also رُمُقٌ. [And see مُرَامِقٌ.] -A2- Also The bird that the sportsman sets up in order that the falcon, or hawk, may alight upon it and so he may capture it; (K;) also called رَامِجٌ and مِلْوَاحٌ: he takes an owl, and ties something black to its leg, and sews up its eyes, and ties to its shanks a long string; and when the falcon, or hawk, alights upon it, he captures it from his lurking-place: mentioned by Lth and by IDrd; and thought by the latter to be not a genuine Arabic word. (TA.)

: see رُمْقَةٌ, in two places.

The remains of life, (Lth, K,) or of the spirit, (S, Mgh, Msb,) or of the soul; (IDrd, TA;) or the last breath: (TA:) and applied also to strength: (Msb:) pl. أَرْمَاقٌ. (K.) It is said that a man in a case of necessity may eat of that which has died a natural death مَايَسُدُّ الرَّمَقَ, i. e. [What will stay, or arrest, the remains of life; or] what will maintain, and preserve, the strength. (Msb.) [In like manner, also,] one says, of sustenance, يُمْسِكُ الرَّمَقَ [It stays, or arrests, the remains of life; or maintains the strength]. (S, Msb, K.) See also رُمْقَةٌ. -A2- Also A flock of sheep, or herd of goats: (S, K:) a Pers. word, (S,) arabicized, (S, K,) from رَمَهْ. (K.)

, Straitness, or narrowness, of the means of subsistence. (K. [In the CK, for الضِّيقُ is put الضَّيِّقُ, which makes the meaning to be “ strait, ” or “ narrow, ” as applied to the means of subsistence.]) See also رُمْقَةٌ.

, a pl., signifying Poor men, who are satisfied with little sustenance, such as suffices to stay, or arrest, the remains of life, or to maintain the strength: and envying persons: sing. ↓ رَامِقٌ and ↓ رَمُوقٌ: (IAar, K, TA:) which signifies one. who looks at men from the outer angle of the eye and with envy. (IAar, TA.)

Weak; (K;) applied to a man. (TA.)

A weak-sighted man. (IDrd, K.)