رَاقَد
ráḳad (pl. érḳad)
المعلومات األساسية الصرفية

n. (m.)

mountain ledge, open air stairs (natural or artificial)
горный выступ, лестница (естественная или искусственная)
مدرّج جبلي
CSOL I 636; CSOL II 566
الأمثلة النصية

a. wa-ľinḳéˁ beʸh ḷe-ker érḳad ‘And may the ropes holding him be cut on the ledges of the gorge’ (CSOL I 9:2)

b. ṭáhɛrk ḷe-ker bédoʰ wa-ḥérek ḷaḥrέ men órem tešráḳaḥ bɛr wa-ˀaḷ-ksek ˁaf efoḳíḥin bédoʰ kések érḳad di-yešráḳaḥ bɛr wa- šérḳaḥk ‘I was going along a path midway up a gorge and trying to find a way out, but did not find any till I reached the middle of the path. Then I found a ledged slope that led out and I got out’ (CSOL I 9:2)

c. éṭrobk ḥumár biľá bíššoḷ ker érḳad ˁaf tóˀo éraḥ ˁamḳ di-érḳad aḷ-ˁad tómiˁ ľiṭrέb aḷ-ʸheʰ ľeḥé wa-ˀaḷ-ʸheʰ ˁaľέ ‘I sent a donkey without a load over a ledged slope, but when it reached the middle of the slope it didn’t want to go farther, neither down nor up’ (CSOL I 9:2)

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االشتياق اللغوي

One wonders whether this noun is related to the verb érḳed ‘se précipiter’ (LS 405), once attested in the Vienna corpus. For the possible semantic shift cf. Latin praecipitium < praecipito (CSOL I 9:2).

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