delve into, be immersed, penetrate

, (S, O, K,) or عَمُقَتْ, (Msb,) [aor. ,] inf. n. عَمَاقَةٌ (S, O, Msb) and عُمْقٌ, (Msb,) said of a well (رَكِىٌّ, S, O, or بِيأْرٌ Msb), It was, or became, deep: (S, * O, * Msb, K, * TA:) and so مَعُقَ. (TA.) One says, مَا أَبْعَدَ عَمَاقَةَ هٰذِهِ الرَّكِيَّةِ (O, K *) and ↓ مَا أَعْمَقَهَا (K) [How great, or far-extending, is the depth of this well !]: and so مَا أَمْعَقَهَا. (TA.) ― -b2- And عَمُقَ and عَمِقَ, inf. n. (of the former, TA) عُمْقٌ and (of the latter, TA) عَمَاقَةٌ, said of a [road such as is termed] فَجّ, It was, or became, far-extending: or long: (K:) but accord. to a saying of IAar, app. not used in the latter sense when said of a road. (TA.) And عَمُقَ said of a place, It was, or became, distant, remote, or far off. (Msb.)

see 4. ― -b2- [Hence,] عمّق النَّظَرَ فِى الأُمُورِ, (S, O, K,) inf.n. تَعْمِيقٌ, (S,) He exceeded the usual bounds [in looking, or examining, or rather he looked, or examined, deeply, into affairs, or the affairs]. (K, TA.)

, (Msb, K,) inf. n. إِعْمَاقٌ; (S, O;) and ↓ عَمَّقَهَا, (Msb, K,) inf. n. تَعْمِيقٌ; (S, O;) and ↓ اِعْتَمَقَهَا; (O, K;) He made the well deep: (S, O, Msb, K, TA:) and so امعقها. (TA.) ― -b2- مَا أَعْمَقَهَا: see 1.

He went deeply, or far, in in his speech; syn. تَنَطَّعَ. (S, O, K.) And تعمّق فِى الشَّىْءِ He went, or dived, deeply, or far, in, or into, the thing. (MA.) And تعمّق فِى الأَمْرِ He was, or became, nice, exquisite, refined, or scrupulously nice and exact; or he chose what was excellent, or best to be done; and exceeded the usual bounds; in the affair. (TA. [See also the part. n., below.])

see 4.

(S, O, Msb, K, TA) and ↓ عُمْقٌ, (S, O, K, TA,) or the latter is an inf. n., (Msb,) and ↓ عُمُقٌ, (K, TA,) The bottom (قَعْر) of a well (S, O, K, TA) and the like, (K, TA,) and of a [road such as is termed] فَجّ, and of a valley: (S, O, TA:) or the depth of a well (Msb, TA) and the like; [i. e.] the distance to the bottom: (TA:) [and عُمُوقٌ, which may be a pl. of the first or second, and perhaps of the third, signifies deep places of the ground: (see خَسْفٌ:) and ↓ عُمْقٌ signifies also depth of anything; or distance between the two opposite surfaces thereof:] but accord. to IAar, ↓ عُمْقٌ as an attribute of a road signifies distance: and as an attribute of a well it is the length of its cavity, or interior, from top to bottom. (TA.) ― -b2- And عَمْقٌ and ↓ عُمْقٌ signify also The distant, or remote, extremity of a desert, or waterless desert: pl. أَعْمَاقٌ: (S, O, K, TA:) which is also expl. as signifying sides, regions, or tracts; and extremities; without restriction: and sides, regions, or tracts, of the earth, or of a land. (TA.) Ru-beh says, " فِى سَبْسَبٍ مُنْجَرِدِ الأَعْلَاقِ الأَعْمَاقِ ↓ غَيْرِ الفِجَاجِ عَمِقِ " [In a desert, or waterless desert, bared of the beaten tracks, except the far-extending (?) remote in respect of the extremities]. (O.) -A2- And عَمْقٌ Full-grown unripe dates put in the sun to dry (AHn, K, TA) and to ripen. (AHn, TA.) ― -b2- [And accord. to Forskål, (Flora Aeg. Arab. p. cxii.,) The Euphorbia officin. arborea; mentioned by him as found at a place in Tihámeh, which suggests that its name may perhaps be correctly عِمْقَى, q. v.]

: see the next preceding paragraph, in four places.

A right, or due. (ISh, O, K.) So in the saying, فِى هٰذِهِ الدَّارِ عَمَقٌ [In this house is a right, or due, pertaining to some one]: (ISh, O:) and لَهُ فِيهِ عَمَقٌ [There pertains to him, in it, a right, or due]. (K.)

: see عَمِيقٌ, and the verse cited above.

: see عَمْقٌ, first sentence. ― -b2- [And see عَمِيقٌ.]

Feculence (وَضَرٌ) of clarified butter, [adhering to the interior] in a skin: (Lh, O, K:) the م is asserted by Lh to be a substitute for ب. (TA voce عَبَقَةٌ.)

, (S, O, K,) said by Aboo-Nasr to be of the fem. gender, (O,) A species of trees, (S,) or a certain plant, (O, K,) in El-Hijáz and Tihá- meh, (S, [see عَمْقٌ, last sentence,]) of which AHn states his not having found any one who described its qualities, or attributes, (O,) and said by IB to be spoken of as more bitter than the colocynth; (TA;) also called ↓ عَمَاقِيةٌ, (O, K,) which occurs in a verse of Sá'ideh Ibn-El-'Ajlán, or, as some relate it, the word there is عَبَاقِيَة [q. v.]. (O.)