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رحق

no verb forms  ·  2 entries  ·  Qur'ānic frequency 1

Derived nouns 2

Nounرُحَاقٌ1 sense

Core sense — wine; the choicest, or purest, winegenerated

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See what follows, in two places.

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: see what follows, in two places.
Nounرَحِيقٌ4 senses · 1 main

Core sense — wine; the choicest, or purest, wine; a sort of perfume; honeygenerated

1wine; the choicest, or purest, wineرُحَاقٌ

A 'Obeyd: wine. Others explain it as the choicest wine, or the sweetest, or the most excellent, or the oldest and most excellent, or unadulterated wine, or wine that is easy to swallow, or pure wine, or clear wine.

In all of these senses the first word has been explained as used in the Qur'ān 83:25, and the second occurs as a synonym of it in good poetry.

Lane cites “Kur lxxxiii. 25” — Flügel numbering, not yet mapped
1.1

Also a sort of perfume.

1.2

And honey.

1.3figurative · مجازunadulterated muskمِسْكٌ رَحِيقٌ
pure, or genuine, grounds of claim to respectحَسَبٌ رَحِيقٌ

on this sense [It is also used as an adjective.]

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Wine: (A 'Obeyd, K:) or the choicest of wine: (S, TA:) or the sweetest of wine: or the most excellent thereof: (K:) or the oldest and most excellent thereof: (M, TA:) or unadulterated wine: (Zj, TA:) or wine that is easy to swallow: (TA:) or pure wine: or clear wine: as also رُحَاقٌ : (K:) in all of these senses the former word has been explained as used in the Kur lxxxiii. 25: (TA:) and ↓ the latter occurs as syn. with the former in chaste poetry. (IDrd.) Also A sort of perfume. (K.) And Honey. (O, TA.) [And it is used as an epithet.] You say مِسْكٌ رَحِيقٌ Unadulterated musk. (TA.) And حَسَبٌ رَحِيقٌ Pure, or genuine, grounds of pretension to respect. (TA.)