رَوْقٌ

[a verbal noun of رَاقَ, used as an epithet,] Clear; applied to water &c. (IAar, K. [See also رَايءِقٌ.]

[Hence, apparently, as a subst.,] Pure, or sincere, love. (K.)

-A2- [Also, as an epithet originally a verbal noun,] Inducing wonder, or admiration, and pleasure, or joy; exciting admiration and approval; pleasing, or rejoicing; (IAar, K;) as also ↓ رَايءِقٌ (JK) and ↓ رَيِّقٌ. (IAar, TA.) And, applied to a horse, Beautiful in make, that induces wonder, or admiration, and pleasure, or joy, in his beholder; excites his admiration and approval; or pleases, or rejoices, him; as also ↓ رَيِّقٌ. (K.)

-A3- A horn (JK, S, K, TA) of any horned animal: (TA:) plural أَرْوَاقٌ. (S, TA.) [Hence,] رَوْقُ الفَرَسِ (assumed tropical:) The spear which the horseman extends between the horse's ears: (K:) [for] spears are regarded as the horses' horns. (Ham p. 90.) And دَاهِيَةٌ ذَاتُ رَوْقَيْنِ (tropical:) A great calamity or misfortune; (K, TA;) lit. twohorned. (TA.) And حَرْبٌ ذَاتُ رَوْقَيْنِ (tropical:) A vehement war. (TA.)

Also (assumed tropical:) [A] courageous [man], with whom one cannot cope. (K.)

(tropical:) A chief (IAar, JK, K) of men. (JK.)

(assumed tropical:) A company, or collective body, (As, O, K,) of people: so in the saying, جَاءَنَا رَوْقٌ مِنْ بَنِى فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) [A company of the sons of such a one came to us: or, apparently, a numerous and strong company; for it is added that this is] like the saying رَأْسُ جَمَاعَةِ القَوْمِ [which means “ the numerous and strong company of the collective body of the people ”]. (As, O.)

Also synonym with رِوَاقٌ in several senses, as pointed out below: see the latter word in six places.

Also (assumed tropical:) The foremost part or portion of rain, and of an army, and of a number of horses or horsemen. (TA.) And (tropical:) The first part of youth; as also ↓ رَيِّقٌ, (S, O, K,) originally رَيْوِقٌ, (O, K,) and ↓ رَيْقٌ, (S, O, K,) which is a contraction of رَيِّقٌ: (O:) you say, فَعَلَهُ فِى رَوْقِ شَبَابِهِ and شبابه ↓ رَيِّقِ and شبابه ↓ رَيْقِ (tropical:) He did it in the first part of his youth: (S, TA: *) and مَضَى مِنَ الشَّبَابِ رَوْقُهُ (tropical:) The first part of youth passed. (TA.)

Also (assumed tropical:) The youth [itself] of a man. (TA.)

And (assumed tropical:) Life; i. e. the period of. life: whence the saying, أَكَلَ رَوْقَهُ (assumed tropical:) [He consumed his life; or] he became aged: (K:) or this saying means (assumed tropical:) his life became prolonged so that, or until, his teeth fell out, one after another. (S, O.)

(assumed tropical:) A part, or portion, of the night: (S, K:) plural, according to IB, أَرْوُقٌ: but according to Aboo- 'Amr Esh-Sheybánee, this is plural of رِوَاقٌ: (TA:) [or the plural of رَوْقٌ in this sense is أَرْوَاقٌ.] You say, مَضَى رَوْقٌ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ (assumed tropical:) A part, or portion, of the night passed. (TA.) And أَرْوَاقُ اللَّيْلِ means (tropical:) The folds (أَثْنَاء) of the darkness of night. (K, TA.) And أَرْوَاقُ العَيْنِ (tropical:) The sides of the eye: so in the saying, أَسْبَلَتْ أَرْوَاقُ العَيْنِ (tropical:) The sides of the eye shed tears. (O, K, * TA.)

Also (assumed tropical:) The body: (K, TA:) and [in like manner the plural] أَرْوَاقٌ signifies the (assumed tropical:) extremities and body, of a man: (TA:) and his self; (JK, * TA;) as also the singular. (JK, TA.) You say, رَمَوْنَا بِأَرْوَاقِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) They threw themselves upon us. (TA.) And أَلْقَى عَلَيْنَا أَرْوَاقَهُ (assumed tropical:) He covered us with himself [by throwing himself upon us]. (TA.) And رَمَاهُ بِأَرْوَاقِهِ (assumed tropical:) He threw his weight upon him. (TA.) And رَمَى بِأَرْوَاقِهِ عَنِ الدَّابَّةِ (assumed tropical:) He mounted the beast: and رَمَى بِأَرْوَاقِهِ عَنِ الدَّابَّةِ (assumed tropical:) He alighted from the beast. (O, K.) And أَلْقَى أَرْوَاقَهُ (assumed tropical:) He remained at rest in a place; (S, O, K;) like as one says, أَلْقَى عَصَاهُ: (S, O:) a meaning said in the K to be apparently the opposite of what here next follows: but this requires consideration. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) He ran vehemently: (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K:) not known, however, to Sh, in this sense; but known to him as meaning (assumed tropical:) he strove, laboured, toiled, or exerted himself, in a thing. (TA.) [Agreeably with this last explanation, it is said that] رَوْقٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A man's determination, or resolution; his action; and his purpose, or intention. (K, TA.) And hence the saying, أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ أَرْوَاقَهُ [meaning (assumed tropical:) He devoted his mind and energy to it, or him]: (TA:) [or] you say thus, and أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ شَرَاشِرَهُ, meaning his loving it, or him, (أَنْ يُحِبَّهُ,) vehemently [i. e. (assumed tropical:) he loved it, or him, vehemently; agreeably with explanations of the saying القى عليه شراشره in article شر, q. v.]. (Thus in the JM. [In my two copies of the S, and in the O and K, and hence in the TA, in the places of عَلَيْهِ and يُحِبَّهُ we find عَلَيْكَ and تُحِبَّهُ; evidently mistranscriptions which have been copied by one lexicographer after another without due consideration: or, if we read عَلَيْكَ, we should read يُحِبَّكَ; for in this case the meaning of the saying would certainly be he loved thee vehemently. Freytag, misled by the reading تُحِبَّهُ in the S and K, renders القى عليك ارواقه as meaning Magno amore erga ipsum te accendit. Golius gives, in its place, ضرب اوراقه عليه (for ارواقه), as meaning Valde amavit eum.])

You say also, أَلْقَتِ السَّحَابَةُ أَرْوَاقَهَا, (JK, S, O, K,) or القت السحابة عَلَى الأَرْضِ ارواقها, (TA,) (tropical:) The cloud cast down its rain, and its vehement rain consisting of large drops, (S, O, K, TA,) upon the earth: (TA:) or persevered with rain, and remained stationary upon the land: (JK, TA:) or أَلْقَتِ السَّمَاءُ بِأَرْوَاقِهَا The sky cast down all the water that was in it: (IAmb, O, TA:) or this saying, (O, TA,) or the former, (K,) means cast down its clear waters; (O, K, TA;) from رَاقَ المَاءُ signifying “ the water was, or became, clear: ” but IAmb deems this improbable, because the Arabs did not say مَاءٌ رَوْقٌ and مَاانِ رَوْقَانِ and أَمْوَاهٌ أَرْوَاقٌ: (O, TA:) [i. e. they said رَوْقٌ only, in all cases when they used it as an epithet meaning “ clear, ” because it is originally a verbal noun, like عَدْلٌ &c.:] or, as some say, by بارواقها is meant its waters rendered heavy by the clouds: and one says, أَرْخَتِ السَّمَاءُ أَرْوَاقَهَا and عَزَالِيهَا (assumed tropical:) [The sky loosed, or let down, its spouts; the clouds being likened to leathern water-bags]: (TA:) [for] رَوْقُ السَّحَابِ means (assumed tropical:) The مَسِيل [or channel by which flows the water] of the clouds. (TA in another part of the article [See also رِوَاقٌ, as used in relation to clouds.])

-A4- رَوْقٌ also signifies A substitute for a thing, (O, K,) according to [the JK and] Ibn-'Abbád. (O.)

-A5- And الرَّوْقُ means The breathing of [i. e. in] the agony of death (نَفْسُ النَّزْعِ). (O, K, TA. [In the CK and in my MS. copy of the K, نَفْسُ النَّزْعِ, which means the agony of death itself.])