رحيق

Arabic

Alternative forms
  • رُحَاق (ruḥāq)

Etymology

Related to Hebrew רֶקַח (reḥāq, “spiced; spiced wine”), and Akkadian 𒋆𒈨𒌍 (/⁠riqqu, rīqu⁠/, “aromatic plants, beer malt”). Wine, at the advent of the Quranic usage, was served warm and brewed from a dehydrated paste or powder form, with spices and practices similar to modern Arabic coffee culture.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ra.ħiːq/

Noun

رَحِيق • (raḥīq) m

  1. (obsolete) choicest wine, exquisitely treated wine
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 83:25-26:
      يُسْقَوْنَ مِن رَّحِيقٍ مَّخْتُومٍ ۝ خِتٰمُهُ مِسْكٌ
      yusqawna min raḥīqin maḵtūmin ۝ ḵitāmu-hū miskun
      They will be given to drink of full-flavoured sealed wine ۝ and its seal is of musk.
  2. nectar of blossoms

Declension
Declension of noun رَحِيق (raḥīq)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal رَحِيق
raḥīq		 الرَّحِيق
ar-raḥīq		 رَحِيق
raḥīq
Nominative رَحِيقٌ
raḥīqun		 الرَّحِيقُ
ar-raḥīqu		 رَحِيقُ
raḥīqu
Accusative رَحِيقًا
raḥīqan		 الرَّحِيقَ
ar-raḥīqa		 رَحِيقَ
raḥīqa
Genitive رَحِيقٍ
raḥīqin		 الرَّحِيقِ
ar-raḥīqi		 رَحِيقِ
raḥīqi

References
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 158
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “رحيق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 132
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 141–142
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رحيق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1053
  • Müller, David Heinrich (1887) “Arabisch-aramäische Glossen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 1, page 27
  • Qian, Ailin (2017) “Delights in Paradise: A Comparative Survey of Heavenly Food and Drink in the Quran”, in Sebastian Günther and Todd Lawson, editors, Roads to Paradise. Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts; 136/1), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
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