رتع

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Form 1رَتَعَ6 senses · 1 main

muḍāriʿـَيَفْعَلُmaṣdarرُتُوعٌ

Core sense — he (a beast) pastured at pleasure amid abundant herbage; he ate much; he playedgenerated

1.1figurative · مجاز

maṣdar رُتُوعٌ, رَتْعٌ, and رِتَاعٌ.

He (a beast) pastured at pleasure; he ate and drank what he pleased, and came and went in the pasturage, by day, amid abundance of herbage and plenty. Or he ate and drank plentifully and pleasantly, in land of seed-produce and fruitfulness, of green herbs or leguminous plants and of waters. Or he ate and drank with great greediness.

In its primary sense it is said of a beast.

1.1.1figurative · مجاز

Said figuratively of a man, meaning he ate much; so El-Isbahánee in the Mufradát, and the A and the B.

1.1.2figurative · مجازsuch a one acted as he pleased in eating and drinking the property of such a one—رَتَعَ فُلَانٌ فِى مَالِ فُلَانٍ

1.1.3figurative · مجازwe went forth enjoying ourselves and playing—خَرَجْنَا نَلْعَبُ وَنَرْتَعُ

[Send him with us to-morrow] that he may play and enjoy himself—أَرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا يَرْتَعْ وَيَلْعَبْ

that we may put our beasts to pasture at pleasure, and he shall play—نُرْتِعْ وَيَلْعَبُ

that he may put our beasts to pasture at pleasure, and we will play together—يُرْتِعْ وَنَلْعَبُ

Said in the Qur'ān 12:12, according to different readings.

Or the meaning is, that he may walk [abroad at his pleasure] and become cheerful in countenance, or dilated in heart.

This is the reverse of the reading before it.

And with ن in each case.

1.1.4figurative · مجاز — inferredhe who goes round about [the prohibited place of pasturage will soon enter into it]—مَنْ يَرْتَعْ حَوْلَ الحِمَى يُوشِكْ أَنْ يَخَالِطَهُ

Said in a tradition.

1.1.5figurative · مجاز[when you pass by a scene of] the commemoration of the praises of God, enter into it—إِذَا مَرَرْتُمْ بِرِيَاضِ الجَنَّةِ فَٱرْتَعُوا

Said in another tradition. The entering into it is thus likened to eating and drinking what one pleases, amid abundance of herbage.

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1

12:12

أَرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا يَرْتَعْ وَيَلْعَبْ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَحَـٰفِظُونَ

"Send him with us tomorrow to enjoy himself and play, and we shall take every care of him."

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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, aor. رَتَعَ , inf. n. رُتُوعٌ (S, Msb, K) and رَتْعٌ (Msb, K) and رِتَاعٌ , (IAar, K,) He (a beast) pastured at pleasure; (Msb;) he (a beast, S, TA) ate (S, K) and drank (K) what he pleased, (S, K,) and came and went in the pasturage, by day, (TA,) amid abundance of herbage, and plenty: (K:) or he ate and drank plentifully and pleasantly, in land of seed-produce and fruitfulness, of green herbs or leguminous plants and of waters: (Lth, K, TA:) or he ate (IAar, K) and drank (K) with great greediness. (IAar, K.) In its primary acceptation, it is said of a beast. (TA.) It is metaphorically said of a man, as meaning He ate much; accord. to El-Isbahánee in the Mufradát, and the A and the B. (TA.) You say, رَتَعَ فُلَانٌ فِى مَالِ فُلَانٍ Such a one acted as he pleased in eating and drinking the property of such a one. (TA.) And خَرَجْنَا نَلْعَبُ وَنَرْتَعُ We went forth [playing, or sporting, and enjoying ourselves; or] enjoying ourselves; and playing, or sporting. (S, TA. *) It is said in the Kur [xii. 12], (TA,) accord. to different readings, (K, TA,) أَرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا يَرْتَعْ وَيَلْعَبْ [Send thou him with us to-morrow] that he may play, or sport, and enjoy himself: or the meaning is, that he may walk [abroad at his pleasure] and become cheerful in countenance, or dilated in heart: (TA:) and نُرْتِعْ وَيَلْعَبُ that we may put our beasts to eat and drink what they please, amid abundance of herbage, and plenty, [or to pasture at pleasure,] and he shall play: (K, TA:) and the reverse, (K,) يُرْتِعْ وَنَلْعَبُ , (TA,) i. e. that he may put our beasts to eat and drink &c., and we will play together: (K, TA:) and with ن in each case. (K.) And it is said in a trad., مَنْ يَرْتَعْ حَوْلَ الحِمَى يُوشِكْ أَنْ يَخَالِطَهُ , i. e. He who goes round about [the prohibited place of pasturage will soon enter into it]. (TA.) And in another trad., إِذَا مَرَرْتُمْ بِرِيَاضِ الجَنَّةِ فَٱرْتَعُوا , meaning [When ye pass by a scene of] the commemoration of the praises of God, enter ye thereinto; the entering thereinto being thus likened to the eating and drinking what one pleases, amid abundance of herbage. (TA.)

Form 4ارتع5 senses · 1 main

Core sense — he put his camels to pasture at pleasure; he ruled his subjects wellgenerated

4.1

He put his camels to pasture at pleasure, to eat and drink what they pleased, amid abundance of herbage and plenty. Or: he pastured his camels, or put them to pasture, by themselves.

See the example from the Qur'ān cited above.

4.1.1figurative · مجاز

Hence: he ruled, or governed, his subjects well, [as though] leaving them to satiate themselves in the pasturage.

4.1.2

It (a party of men) came upon abundance of herbage, and pastured.

4.1.3

It (rain) gave growth to herbage in which the camels might pasture at pleasure, or eat and drink what they pleased, amid abundance and plenty.

4.1.4the land became abundant in herbage—ارتعت الأَرْضُ

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He put his camels [to pasture at pleasure; (see 1;) or] to eat (S, K) and drink (K) what they pleased, (S, K,) amid abundance of herbage, and plenty: (K: [in which it is implied that the verb may have this signification or others agreeable with explanations in the first sentence of this art.:]) or he pastured his camels, or put them to pasture, by themselves. (TA.) See the ex. in the Kur-án cited above. Hence, He ruled, or governed, his subjects well; [as though] leaving them to satiate themselves in the pasturage. (TA.) It (a party of men) lighted upon abundance of herbage, and pastured. (TA.) It (rain) produced, or gave growth to, herbage in which the camels might pasture at pleasure, or eat and drink what they pleased, amid abundance thereof and plenty. (S, Msb, K.) ارتعت الأَرْضُ The land became abundant in herbage. (TA.)

Derived nouns 9

Nounرَتَعٌ1 sense

Core sense — a plentiful, pleasant and easy lifegenerated

[Apparently a maṣdar, of which the verb is not mentioned, and perhaps not used.]

The leading of a plentiful, pleasant and easy life.

[See also رَتْعَةٌ.]

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[app. an inf. n., of which the verb ( رَتِعَ ) is not mentioned, and perhaps not used,] The leading a plentiful and pleasant and easy life. (TA.) [See also رَتْعَةٌ .]

Nounرَتِعٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — pasturing at pleasure amid abundant herbage; said of herbage, abundantgenerated

Singular of رَتِعُونَ; see it under مُرْتِعٌ.

1.1

Also applied to herbage: see مُرْتِعٌ.

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sing. of رَتِعُونَ , q. v. voce مُرْتِعٌ : and applied to herbage: see مُرْتِعٌ .

Nounرَتْعَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — abundance of herbage; plenty and ampleness of the comforts of lifegenerated

1bonds and plenty—القَيْدُ وَالرَّتْعَةُ

bonds and plenty—الرَّتَعَةُ

Abundance of herbage; or of the goods, conveniences, and comforts of life; fruitfulness; plenty; and a state of ampleness in respect of these. A substantive from form 1.

Hence the proverb. The first form is on the authority of Fr, and the second from someone else, according to the O; but in the L the second is ascribed to Fr.

In it the second word means الخَصْبُ.

on this sense Said by 'Amr Ibn-Es-Sāik. He had been taken prisoner by Shākir Ibn-Rabee'ah, a tribe of Hemdān, who treated him well; when he left his people he was slender; then he fled from Shākir, and when he came to his people they said, “O 'Amr, you went forth from us slender, and now you are corpulent;” and he replied in the words above.

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Abundance of herbage; or of the goods, conveniences, and comforts, of life; fruitfulness; plenty: and a state of ampleness in respect thereof: (K:) a subst. from 1. (TA.) Hence the prov., القَيْدُ وَالرَّتْعَةُ , and الرَّتَعَةُ ; (K;) the former on the authority of Fr, and the latter from some other, accord. to the O; but in the L, the latter is ascribed to Fr; (TA;) [Bonds and plenty; the latter word] meaning الخَصْبُ : said by 'Amr Ibn-Es-Saak: he had been taken prisoner by Shákir Ibn-Rabee'ah, a tribe of Hemdán, who treated him well; and when he left his people, he was slender; then he fled from Shákir; and when he came to his people, they said, “ O 'Amr, thou wentest forth from us slender, and now thon art corpulent; ” and he replied in the words above. (K.)

Nounرَتَعَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — abundance of herbage; plenty and ampleness of livinggenerated

See the word next preceding.

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: see what next precedes.

Nounرَتَّاعٌ1 sense

Core sense — one who seeks out, with his camels, places of pasturage abounding with herbagegenerated

One who seeks, with his camels, after the places of pasturage abounding with herbage, one after another.

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One who seeks, with his camels, after the places of pasturage abounding with herbage, one after another. (TA.)

Nounرَاتِعٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — pasturing at pleasure amid abundance of herbage, said of a camelgenerated

A camel, or beast, pasturing at pleasure; eating and drinking what he pleases, and coming and going in the pasturage, by day, amid abundance of herbage and plenty.

[Ism fāʿil of form 1.] Plural رِتَاعٌ, رُتَّعٌ, رُتُعٌ, and رُتُوعٌ.

1.1

One says also قَوْمٌ رَاتِعُونَ. See مَرْتِعٌ.

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A camel, (S, K,) or beast, pasturing at his pleasure; (Msb;) or eating (S, K,) and drinking (K) what he pleases, (S, K,) and coming and going in the pasturage, by day, (TA,) amid abundance of herbage, and plenty; (K;) [part. n. of 1, q. v.:] pl. رِتَاعٌ (S, Msb, K) and رُتَّعٌ and رُتُعٌ and رُتُوعٌ . (K.) You say also قَوْمٌ رَاتِعُونَ . (S.) See مَرْتِعٌ .

Nounرَأَيْتُ أَرْتَاعًا مِنَ النَّاسِ1 sense

Core sense — I saw a multitude of mengenerated

I saw a multitude of men.

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I saw a multitude of men. (Sgh, K.)

Nounمَرْتَعٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — a place where beasts pasture at pleasure; pasture itselfgenerated

A place of pasturing; [or of unrestrained and plentiful pasturing;] a place where beasts pasture at pleasure, eating and drinking what they please, going and coming there by day, amid abundance of herbage and plenty.

Plural مَرَاتِعُ.

1.1[they consumed, or ate, the pasture of the land]—أَكَلُوا مَرْتَعَ الأَرْضِ

[And the pasture itself.]

Mentioned under ردم.

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A place of pasturing: (KL:) [or of unrestrained and plentiful pasturing;] a place where beasts pasture at pleasure; (Msb;) where they eat (S, K) and drink (K) what they please, (S, K,) going and coming therein, by day, (TA,) amid abundance of herbage, and plenty: (K:) [see 1:] pl. مَرَاتِعُ . (Msb.) [And Pasture itself:] one says, أَكَلُوا مَرْتَعَ الأَرْضِ [They consumed, or ate, the pasture of the land]. (M in art. ردم .)

Nounمُرْتِعٌ4 senses · 1 main

Core sense — one who leaves his camels to pasture at pleasure; having abundance of herbagegenerated

One who leaves his travelling-camels to pasture at their pleasure, or to eat and drink what they please, coming and going in the pasturage, by day, amid abundance of herbage and plenty.

1.1figurative · مجاز — inferreda people, or company of men, who are scarcely ever without abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, and comforts of life—رَاتِعُونَ قَوْمٌ مُرْتِعُونَ

A man having abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, and comforts of life, not lacking anything he may desire.

Synonymous with مَخَاصِيبُ and قَوْمٌ رَتِعُونَ, after the manner of a relative noun, like طَعِمٌ.

In like manner رَتِعٌ is applied to herbage [as meaning scarcely ever other than abundant, or generally abundant].

1.2

Rain that gives growth to herbage in which the camels may pasture at pleasure, or eat and drink what they please, amid abundance and plenty.

1.3land in which the beasts eagerly desire to satiate themselves—أَرْضٌ مُرْتِعَةٌ

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One who leaves his travelling-camels to pasture at their pleasure, or to eat and drink what they please, coming and going in the pasturage, by day, amid abundance of herbage, and plenty. (TA.) A man having abundance of herbage, or of the goods or conveniences and comforts of life, not lacking anything that he may desire. (K, TA.) You say also رَاتِعُونَ قَوْمٌ مُرْتِعُونَ , meaning A people, or company of men, who are scarcely ever without abundance of herbage, or of the goods or conveniences and comforts of life; syn. مَخَاصِيبُ ; and قَوْمٌ رَتِعُونَ , after the manner of a rel. n., like طَعِمٌ : and in like manner رَتِعٌ is applied to herbage [as meaning scarcely ever other than abundant, or generally abundant]. (TA.) Rain that produces, or gives growth to , herbage in which the camels may pasture at pleasure, or eat and drink what they please, amid abundance thereof and plenty. (S, Msb.) أَرْضٌ مُرْتِعَةٌ Land in which the beasts eagerly desire to satiate themselves. (Sh.)