مَا فِى عَيْشِهِ إِلَّا رُمْقَةٌ

, (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.)