رقب

Muḍāriʿ as above.

Also راقبهُ, maṣdar مُرَاقَبَةٌ and رِقَابٌ [and ترقّبهُ].

This phrase is mentioned as proper, not figurative.

He regarded it; paid regard, or consideration, to it.

The verb of this entry likewise means: he feared him.

One also says فِى أَمْرِهِ, in his affair.

Because one who fears looks for, or expects, punishment.

As maṣdar of رَقَبَ, apparently used without an object, or perhaps as a simple noun.

Also يُرَاقِبُهَا, like يَرْعَاهَا and يُرَاعِيهَا.

IAar cites this saying of a man describing a travelling-companion of his:

— meaning: he watches the star, or asterism, with intense desire to set out, like the fish's intense desire for water.

See also رَقِيبٌ.

And again, in the latter half of that paragraph.

Said of a man, because it is feared that it will not be conceded to him owing to the obscurity of his lineage.

El-Kumeyt says:

— the night-dew and the day-dew that nourished his mental growth were nobility and a generous disposition; those generous qualities were not inherited from distant relations. رِقَبٌ is the plural of رِقْبَةٌ. That is, he inherited them from near ancestors.

In a tradition, relating to camels.

In another tradition.

on this sense By a synecdoche the word is applied to the whole person of a human being.

Also by a synecdoche: a slave, male or female; and a captive. Plural رِقَابٌ.

In the Qur'ān 9:60.

A nickname applied to the عَجَم, the Persians, or foreigners in general: because they were red, or because of the length of their necks (El-Karáfee, in art. زود), or rather because of the thickness of them, as though they were full.

Also a woman who looks for the death of her husband, so that she may inherit his property.

And an old, poor man who is unable to earn for himself and has no one to earn for him: so called because he looks for a gift or gratuity.

And a she-camel that does not come near to the watering-trough, or tank, because of the crowding of the other camels to it, by reason of her generous disposition: so called because she waits for the others to drink, and drinks when they have finished.

A guarder, guardian, keeper, or preserver; a guard of a people; one stationed on a high place to keep watch; a spy, or scout, of an army; a watcher, or observer.

A name applied to God.

Also the أَمِين of the players at the game called المَيْسِر; or the one entrusted with the supervision of the ضَرِيب, the shuffler of the arrows; or the man who stands behind the حُرْضَة in that game. The meanings of all these explanations are said to be the same. Plural as above.

And the third of the arrows used in that game: it is one of the seven arrows to which lots, or portions, belong. Some call it الضَّرِيبُ.

The arrows are ten in number: the first is الفَذُّ, which has one notch and one portion; the second, التَّوْءَمُ, which has two notches and two portions; the third, الرَّقِيبُ, which has three notches and three portions; the fourth, الحِلْسُ or الحَلِسُ, which has four notches [and four portions]; the fifth, النَّافِسُ, which has five notches [and five portions]; the sixth, المُسْبِلُ, which has six notches [and six portions]; and the seventh, المُعَلَّى, the highest of all, which has seven notches and seven portions.

Those to which no portions belong are السَّفِيحُ, المَنِيحُ, and الوَغْدُ.

A poet says:

— when love divides the tenths of my heart, your two arrows will be the mo'allà and the rakeeb. By the سَهْمَانِ, which properly means two arrows, and hence two portions gained by two gaming-arrows, and then any two portions, he means her eyes; and since the معلّى has seven portions and the رقيب has three, the سهمان would gain the whole of his heart.

See also a verse cited under عُشْرٌ.

For example, the رقيب of الثُّرَيَّا is الإِكْلِيلُ, and the former is the رقيب of the latter: when the latter rises at nightfall, the former sets.

Or رَقِيبٌ means the star, or asterism, that watches in the east the star, or asterism, setting in the west.

Or any one of the Mansions of the Moon is the رقيب of another: whenever one of them rises, another sets. See مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ in art. نزل, and see also نَوْءٌ.

And الرَّقِيبُ is a star, or asterism, among those believed to be the givers of rain, that watches another star, or asterism. It was apparently applied to الإِكْلِيلُ as being the رقيب of the most noted and most welcome of all the Mansions of the Moon, namely الثُّرَيَّا: see نَوْءٌ.

The رَقِيب of الثُّرَيَّا is also a name applied to الدَّبَرَانُ, the Hyades — or the five chief stars of the Hyades, or the brightest star among them, in Taurus — because it follows it.

And العَيُّوقُ, Capella, is so called as being likened to the رقيب of the game called المَيْسِر.

One says لَاآتِيكَ أَوْ يَلْقَى الثُّرَيَّا رَقِيبُهَا: I will not come to you unless their رقيب meets the Pleiades.

رَقِيبٌ also means a man's successor, from among his offspring and his عَشِيرَة, his kinsfolk, or his nearer relations by descent from the same ancestor.

Because the successor is like الدَّبَرَان to الثُّرَيَّا.

And the son of a paternal uncle.

Apparently because two male cousins on the father's side are often rivals, and watchers of each other, the son of a girl's paternal uncle being commonly preferred as her husband.

Also a species of serpent, as though it watched out of hatred; or a certain malignant serpent. Plural رَقِيبَاتٌ and رُقُبٌ.

الأَرْقَبُ is also used of the lion, because of the thickness of his رَقَبة.