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√ RQː (RQQ)
quality or condition of being a slave, slavery, bondage – WehrCowan1976
▪ Accord. to Ar lexicographers, one of the terms for ‘slaves’, raqīq, is based on riqqaẗ in the (now obsol.) sense of ‘abjectness, meanness, paltriness, contemptibleness’ (Lane iii 1867, quoting from Tāǧ al-ʕArūs), thus based on ↗raqqa ‘(to be\come) thin, soft’, with an assumed development *‘thin > weak > mean, contemptible’.
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►ĭstaraqqa, vb. X, 1-2 ↗raqqa; 3 to enslave, make a slave: *Št-stem, desiderative
►BP#2695raqīq, pl. ʔariqqāʔᵘ, I n., 1 slave, slaves (sg. and coll.) | tiǧāraẗ al-raqīq, n.f., slave trade; 2 ↗raqqa); II adj., ↗raqqa For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗raqqa, ↗¹raqq, ↗²raqq, ↗al-Raqqaẗ, ↗²riqq, ↗ruqāq, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗RQː (RQQ).
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