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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ruqāq رُقاق 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 21Mar2023
√ RQː (RQQ) 
n. 
1 flat loaf of bread; 2 waffles – WehrCowan1976 
▪ From ↗raqqa ‘(to be\come) thin, flat, fine, soft’, from protSem *RQQ ‘id.’
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►raqqaqa, vb. II, 1a to make thin, thin out; b to refine, make fine, soft or tender, render delicate; c to flatten, roll out (esp. metal); 2 to polish, smooth, make elegant (one’s speech): D-stem, caus. of ↗raqqa
►ʔaraqqa, vb. IV, 1 to make thin, fine or tender, render delicate, refine; 2 to soften (the heart): *Š-stem, caus. of ↗raqqa
►raqīqaẗ, n.f., lamina, flake: nominalized quasi-PP I.f. of ↗raqqa
►mirqāq, n., rolling pin: n.instr., from ↗raqqa
►marqūq, n., thin, flaky pastry: nominalized PP I ↗raqqa

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗raqqa, ↗¹raqq, ↗²raqq, ↗al-Raqqaẗ, ↗¹riqq, ↗²riqq, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗RQː (RQQ). 
RQB رقب 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√RQB 
“root” 
▪ RQB_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ RQB_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘neck, responsibility; slave, war prisoner; an elevated place, a watching post, to watch, to observe, to guard, to regard; to stand in awe of, to show deference, to pay attention to s.o.’ 
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