رَقْمَةٌ

(assumed tropical:) Any one of several small marks of cauterization upon the shanks of a beast. (JK, T, TA.)

(assumed tropical:) One of what are termed الرَّقْمَتَانِ: (TA:) this signifies two [horny] things resembling two nails (JK, S, K, TA) in the legs of a beast (JK, K, TA) or in the legs of a sheep or goat, (S,) opposite each other: (JK, S, TA:) and of the ass and horse, two marks in the inner sides of the two arms: (S:) or the جَاعِرَتَانِ; (K, TA;) which are two black spots [or marks made by cauterization] upon the rump of the ass: (TA:) or what borders upon the جَاعِرَتَانِ of the ass, of the mark made by cauterization: or two portions of [callous] flesh next to the inner side of each of the arms of the horse, having no hair upon them. (K, TA.) Agreeably with all of these renderings has been explained the tradition, مَا أَنْتُمْ مِنَ الأُمَمِ إِلَّا كَالرَّقْمَةِ مِنْ ذِرَاعِ الدَّابَّةِ (assumed tropical:) [Ye are no more, of the nations in general, than such as is the رقمة of the arm of the beast]. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) A small quantity of herbage; as in the saying, مَا وَجَدْتُ إِلَّا رَقْمَةً مِنْ كَلَأٍ (assumed tropical:) [I found not save a small quantity of herbage]. (TA.)

A herb, or leguminous plant, of those termed أَحْرَار [plural of حُرٌّ, q. v.]: (S:) a certain plant; said to be a herb, or leguminous plant, inclining to bitterness, and having a small red flower; (JK;) as some say, (JK, TA,) the خُبَّازَى [or mallow]. (JK, K, TA.)

A meadow (رَوْضَةٌ, S, K) is sometimes thus termed. (S.)

Also The side of a valley: (S, K:) or the place where its water collects; (K;) the part, of a valley, in which is the water. (Fr, JK, TA.)