رَقٌّ
1.
: see رَقِيقٌ; and رُقٌّ.
2.
Also, (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and
رِقٌّ, (Msb, K,) but the latter is a rare dialect var. though some read thus in the Qur'an, 52:3, (Msb,) [Parchment; and vellum; so in the present day; or] skin, (Mgh, Msb,) or thin skin, (S, K,) upon which one writes: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) or (so according to the Mgh, but in the K “ and ”) a white [i. e. blank] صَحِيفَة [which means a paper and a piece of skin, but generally such as is written upon]: (JK, Mgh, K:) or metaphorically applied to (tropical:) a skin written upon: properly one upon which one writes: (Bd in lii. 3:) according to Fr, (assumed tropical:) the صَحَايءِف [i. e. papers, or pieces of skin, meaning records,] that will be produced to the sons of Adam on the day of resurrection; which indicates that such as is written is also thus termed: (Az, TA:) in the Qur'an, 52:3, [according to some,] applied to (assumed tropical:) the Book of the Law revealed to Moses: or the Qur'an. (Jel.)
3.
Also, (K,) or the former word [only], (JK, S, Msb,) The tortoise: (JK:) or a great tortoise: (S, K:) or the male tortoise: (Msb:) and the crocodile: (JK:) or, (K,) according to Ibráheem El-Harbee, (TA,) a certain aquatic reptile, (K, TA,) [apparently the turtle, or sea-tortoise,] having four legs, and claws, or nails, and teeth in a head which it exposes and conceals, and which is killed for food: (TA:) plural رُقُوقٌ. (A'Obeyd, JK, S, Msb, K.)