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أَرَاكٌ ذ The [kind of trees termed] حَمْض; (AHn, K;) as also ↓ إِِرْكٌ : (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) and (K) certain trees of the kind termed حَيْض, (T, S, Msb, K,) well known, bearing what resemble bunches of grapes, (T, TA,) and of which sticks for cleaning the teeth are made, (AHn, Aboo-Ziyád, Msb, K,) that is, of its branches, (AHn, Aboo-Ziyád, Msb,) and of its roots, which latter are more esteemed for this purpose: (Aboo-Ziyád:) it is the best of the trees of which the branches are used for this purpose, and the best of those upon which beasts feed with respect to the odour of the milk [yielded by those beasts]: (AHn:) or one of the large thorny trees, upon which camels feed: the milk of [the camels that feed upon] it is the best of milk: and it is not allowable to prohibit the public from feeding their beasts upon it: (Mgh:) or a kind of tall, smooth, or soft, tree, abounding with leaves and branches, the wood of which is weak, and which has a fruit in bunches, or racemes, called بَرِير, one [bunch] of which will fill the hand: (Msb:) n. un. with ة: (S, Msb:) pl. (of the n. un., T) أُرُكٌ (T, K) and أَرَائِكُ, (IB, K,) which is a form sometimes used, and is also pl. of the n. un. (IB.) ― -b2- A piece of land (K, TA) in which are trees of the kind thus called. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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