ر ت ق

ارتتق It was, or became, closed up, (S, Msb, K,) [and repaired; and sewed up, or together;] said of a rent: (S, Msb:) and also of the vulva of a woman. (S, * TA.)

رَتْقٌ i. q. ↓ مَرْتُوقٌ [and مَرْتُوقَةٌ , &c., being originally an inf. n.; i. e. Closed up, and repaired; applied to a rent; and so ↓ رَتَقٌ ]. (TA.) كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنَاهُمَا , in the Kur [xxi. 31, lit. They (the heavens and the earth) were closed up, and we rent them], is from الرَّتْقُ as the contr. of الفَتْقُ : (S:) accord. to Ibn-'Arafeh, it means they were closed up, without any interstice, and we rent them by the rain and by the plants: accord. to Az, it means they were a heaven closed up and an earth closed up, and we rent them into seven heavens and seven earths: Lth says that the heavens were closed up, no rain descending from them; and the earth was closed up, without any fissure therein; until God rent them by the rain and the plants: Zj says that رَتْقًا is for ذَوَاتَىْ رَتْقٍ : (TA:) and he says that the heaven and the earth were united, and God rent them by the air, which He placed between them: (TA in art. فتق :) some read ↓ رَتَقًا , for شَيْيءًا رَتَقًا , meaning مَرْتُوقًا . (Bd.)

رَتَقٌ : see the next preceding paragraph, in two places. -A2- It is [also] pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ رَتَقَةٌ , syn., accord. to the copies of the K, with رُتْبَةٌ , but correctly with رَتَبَةٌ , which signifies The space between [any two of] the fingers: mentioned [in the JK, where I find the correct reading, and] by Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.)

رَتَقَةٌ : see what next precedes.

رَتْقَا=ءُ , applied to a woman, (AHeyth, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or to a girl, (Lth,) [and also to a she-camel, (see 1, last sentence,)] Impervia coëunti; (S, Msb, K;) having the meatus of the vagina closed up: (S, * Msb:) or having no aperture except the مَبَال [or meatus urinarius]: (Lth, Mgh, K:) or having the فَرْج so drawn together that the ذَكَر can hardly, or not at all, pass. (AHeyth.)

رِتَاقٌ [A garment composed of] two pieces of cloth sewed together ( يُرْتَقَانِ ) by their borders. (Lth, S, K.) Hence the saying of a rájiz, جَارِيَ بَيْضَا=ءُ فِى رِتَاقِ تُدِيرُ طَرْفًا أَكْحَلَ المَا=قِى [A fair girl in a رتاق , turning about eyes black in the inner angles.] (Lth, S. *)

رُتُوقٌ Inaccessableness, or unapproachableness; ( مَنَعَةٌ , [in some copies of the K, الخنعة is erroneously put for المَنَعَةُ ,]) and might; and high, or elevated, rank. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.)

رَاتِقٌ [for سَحَابٌ رَاتِقٌ ] Clouds closing up, or coalescing. (AHn, TA.) ― -b2- هُوَ الفَاتِقُ الرَّاتِقُ (assumed tropical:) He is the possessor of command or rule, so that he opens and closes, and straitens and widens. (Har p. 208.) [See also مِخْلَطٌ .]

فَرْجٌ أَرْتَقُ A vulva of which the sides stick together. (TA.)

مَرْتُوقٌ : see رَتْقٌ .

مَرْتَتِقٌ Herbage of which the blossoms have not yet come forth from their calyxes. (TA in art. صوح .) [See remarks on a verse cited voce مُرْتَفِقٌ .]