تَرِيكَةٌ

A woman that is left unmarried; (S, K;) that has remained a virgin, unmarried, until she has become of middle age, or long after she has attained to puberty, in the house, or tent, of her parents: (TA:) it is not applied to a male: (Lh, TA:) plural تَرَايءِكُ. (S.)

A meadow the depasturing of which has been neglected: (S, K:) or a pasture-land where people have pastured their beasts, either in a desert or upon a mountain, and of which the beasts have eaten until there remain [only] some relics of wood. (TA.)

Water left by a torrent: (IB, K:) used in this sense by El-Farezdak. (IB.)

An egg after the young bird has gone forth from it: (K:) or an ostrich's egg (S, K) which she forsakes (S, TA) in the desert after it has become empty: (TA:) or, as some say, an ostrich's eggs left solitary: (TA:) and ↓ تَرْكَةٌ signifies the same. (K.) [For the plural, see the next sentence.]

(assumed tropical:) An iron helmet; (K;) in the opinion of ISd, as being likened to the egg thus termed; (TA;) and so ↓ تَرْكَةٌ: (S, K:) the plural [of the former] is تَرَايءِكُ [mentioned in the S as plural of the former applied to an ostrich's egg] and ↓ تَرِيكٌ and ↓ تَرْكٌ [the latter of which is termed in the S plural of تَرْكَةٌ are coll. gen. ns. of which تَرِيكَةٌ and تَرْكَةٌ are the ns. un.]. (K.)

A raceme of dates (كِبَاسَة [in the CK, erroneously, كُناسة]) after it has had what was upon it shaken off, (AHn, K, TA,) and is left: plural تَرَايءِكُ: (AHn, TA:) and ↓ تَرِيكٌ signifies a raceme (عُنْقٌود) when what was upon it has been eaten; (AHn, K, TA;) and a raceme of dates (عِذْق) that has had what was upon it shaken off, (K, TA,) so that nothing remains upon it: so AHn says in one place. (TA.)

It is said in a tradition, إِنَّ لِلّهِ تَرَايءِكَ فِى خَلْقِهِ, meaning [Verily to God are referrible] conditions which He hath perpetuated in mankind, of hope and heedlessness, so that they apply themselves thereby with boldness, forwardness, presumptuousness, or arrogance, to the things of the present world. (TA.)