رقّقهُ
1.
, (S, K,) verbal noun تَرْقِيقٌ; (TA;) and
ارقّهُ, (S, K,) verbal noun إِرْقَاقٌ; (TA;) opposite of
غَلَّظَهُ; (K;) or He made it, or rendered it,
رَقِيق [i. e. thin, as meaning of little thickness in comparison with its breadth and length together; &c.: see 1, first sentence; and رَقِيقٌ, below]. (S, TA.)
2.
[Hence,] تَرْقِيقُ الكَلَامِ (assumed tropical:) The making speech to be [soft or tender, or easy and sweet, or] elegant, graceful, or ornate; the beautifying, or embellishing, and adorning, of speech. (S, TA.) And hence, (TA,) it is said in a prov., (S,) أَعَنْ صَبُوحٍ
تُرَقِّقُ (S, K, TA) (tropical:) Dost thou allude (K, TA) gracefully, courteously, politely, or delicately, (TA,) to a morning-draught? (K, TA:) [the origin of which prov. was this:] a certain man named Jábán alighted by night at the abode of a people, and they entertained him, and gave him an evening-draught; and when he had finished it, he said, “ When ye shall have given me a morning draught, how shall I enter upon my way and prosecute the object of my want? ” whereupon the saying above was addressed to him: (K, * TA:) it is applied to him who makes an allusion to a thing, like this guest, who desired to oblige the people to give him the morning draught: and was said by Esh-Shaabee to one who spoke of kissing a woman when meaning thereby جِمَاع. (TA.)
3.
[Hence also,] رقّق صَوْتَهُ (K in article حزن) or
ارقهُ (S in that article) (assumed tropical:) [He made his voice slender, or soft, or gentle].
4.
تَرْقِيقٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) [The pronouncing a word with the slender sound of the lengthened fet-h (like the sound of “ a” in our word “father ”), and with the ordinary sound of the letter
ل; both as in بِاللّٰهِ and للّٰهِ;] the opposite of
تَفْخِيمٌ. (Kull p. 127.)
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6.
رقّق بَيْنَ القَوْمِ (assumed tropical:) He created, or excited, disorder, disturbance, disagreement, or dissension, or he made, or did, mischief, between, or among, the people. (TA.)