رَقَاقٌ

1.
A [desert tract such as is called] صَحْرَاء: (K:) or a wide, or spacious, صحراء, of soft soil, beneath which is hardness: (TA:) or a level, (S, K, TA,) expanded, (TA,) tract of land, of soft soil, beneath which is hardness: (S, K, TA:) or a tract from which the water has sunk into the ground; as also رُقَاقٌ and رَقَّةٌ [q. v.]: or a soft and wide tract of land; (K, TA;) according to As, without sand; (TA;) as also رِقٌّ and رُقٌّ and رَقَقٌ; (K;) the last of which is a contraction of رَقَاقٌ, used by Ru-beh, (S, TA,) by poetic license. (TA.)
2.
يَوْمٌ رَقَاقٌ A hot day. (Fr, K.) [See also رَقْرَاقٌ.]

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