أَرْقَطُ
1.
Black speckled with white: or the reverse: feminine رَقْطَاءُ. (K.) Applied to a sheep or goat, Like, (S,) or synonym with, (K,) أَبْغَثُ: (S, K:) or speckled with black and white. (Har p. 303.) And the feminine, applied to a domestic fowl or hen (دَجَاجَة), Black speckled with white: (S:) or party-coloured: (K:) or having patches of white and black: much sought after, and used, by enchanters; and rarely found. (TA.)
2.
It is also applied to a man. (TA.)
3.
And the feminine is applied to a tract (رِسَالَةٌ), and to an ode (قَصِيدَةٌ), as meaning Having one of the letters of a word thereof dotted, and another not dotted: from the same epithet applied to a sheep or goat. (Har p. 303.)
4.
السِّلْسِلَةُ الرَّقْطَاءُ
A certain reptile; the most malignant of the [kind of lizards called] عِظَاء: when it crawls upon food, it poisons it. (TA.)
5.
ثَرِيدَةٌ رَقْطَاءُ (tropical:) [A mess of crumbled or broken bread] having much oil (Sgh, K *) or clarified butter. (TA.)
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الأَرْقَطُ
The leopard: (K:) an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (TA.)
7.
الرَّقْطَاءُ (tropical:) Civil war; conflict and faction; sedition; or the like; synonym الفِتْنَةُ: (K:) because of its variableness: or such as is not universal; likened to a speckled serpent: occurring in a tradition (TA.)