ارقلت
1.
, said of a palm-tree (نَخْلَة), verbal noun إِرْقَالٌ, It became such as is termed
رَقْلَة [q. v.]. (Msb.)
2.
ارقل, (S, K,) said of a he-camel, (S,) or ارقلت, said of a she-camel, (JK, Msb, TA,) verbal noun as above, (JK, S, Msb,) He, or she, went quickly; (JK, K;) went a sort of quick pace; (Msb;) went a sort of pace of the kind termed
خَبَب [q. v.]: (S, TA:) or went a sort of run exceeding that termed
خَبَب: (TA:) and
رَقَلَتْ signifies the same as ارقلت. (JK.) ارقل is also said of a man, (S, K,) meaning (assumed tropical:) He went quickly. (TA.) And you say, ارقلوا فِى الحَرْبِ, (TA,) or إِلَى الحَرْبِ, (JK,) (tropical:) They went quickly in, or to, war, or battle. (JK, TA.) And فُلَانٌ
يُرْقِلُ فِى الأُمُورِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one is quick in affairs]. (TA.) And أَرْقَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ is metaphorically said, by Aboo-Heiyeh En-Numeyree, of spears [as meaning (tropical:) They had been quickly directed towards him]. (TA.)
3.
Accord. to Lth and the K, ارقل also signifies He traversed, or crossed, a desert: and Lth cites the following verse of El-'Ajjáj [as his authority for this explanation]:
but Az says that this is a mistake of Lth; that كُلَّ is here an adv. n.; and that the meaning is, [O God, by the Lord of the House (of Mekkeh) and of the Musharrak (the mosque of El-Kheyf) and] by the Lord of the swift she-camels in every even plain: and ISd also has notified the same. (TA.)لَاهُمَّ رَبِّ البَيْتِ وَالمُشَرَّقِوَالمُرْقِلَاتِ كُلَّ سُهْبٍ سَمْلَقِ