1. رَتَقَ
1 rataqa * , aor. ratuqa (S, L, Msb) and ratiqa , (L,) inf. n. ratoqN , (S, M, L, Msb, K,) He closed up, (M, Msb, TA,) and repaired, (M, TA,) a rent: (S, M, Msb, TA:) [ he sewed up, or together: see ritaAqN :] Alr~atoqu is the contr. of Alfatoqu . (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, rataqa fatoqahumo , meaning (tropical:) [ He closed up the breach that was between them; he reconciled them; or] he reformed, or amended, the circumstances subsisting between them. (TA.) -A2- ratiqato , aor. rataqa , (IKoot, Msb, TA,) inf. n. rataqN , (S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) in the K, erroneously, rataqapN , (TA,) She was, or became, such as is termed ratoqaA=' ; (IKoot, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) said of a woman, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or of a girl, and also of a camel. (IKoot, Msb.)
2. رَتْقٌ
ratoqN * i. q. ↓ marotuwqN [and marotuwqapN , &c., being originally an inf. n.; i. e. Closed up, and repaired; applied to a rent; and so ↓ rataqN ]. (TA.) kaAnataA ratoqFA fafataqonaAhumaA , in the Kur [xxi. 31, lit. They (the heavens and the earth) were closed up, and we rent them ], is from Alr~atoqu as the contr. of Alfatoqu : (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 ratoqFA is for *awaAtaYo ratoqK : (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. ftq :) some read ↓ rataqFA , for $ayoy^FA rataqFA , meaning marotuwqFA . (Bd.)
3. رَتَقٌ
rataqN * : see the next preceding paragraph, in two places. -A2- It is [also] pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ rataqapN , syn., accord. to the copies of the K, with rutobapN , but correctly with ratabapN , 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.)