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رتل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 تَرْتِيلٌ ذ , in its original sense, relates to the teeth; signifying تَفْلِيج thereof [i. e., as inf. n. of the verb in its pass. form, Their being separate, one from another ]. (Bd in xxv. 34.) ― -b2- [Hence,] رتّل الكَلَامَ, (T, M, K,) inf. n. تَرْتِيلٌ, (K,) He put together and arranged well the component parts of the speech, or saying, (M, K,) and made it distinct: and hence تَرْتِيلُ القُرْاآنِ [explained in what follows]: (M:) or he proceeded in a leisurely manner in the speech, or saying, [ making the utterance distinct, ] and put together and arranged well its component parts: (T:) and رَتَّلْتُ القُرْاآنَ inf. n. as above, I read, or recited, the Kur-án in a leisurely manner; without haste: (Msb:) or التَّرْتِيلُ in reading, or reciting, [and particularly in the reading, or reciting, of the Kur-án,] is the proceeding in a leisurely manner, and uttering distinctly, without exceeding the proper bounds or limits: (S:) [and hence, conventionally, the chanting of the Kur-án in a peculiar, distinct, and leisurely, manner: ] and فِى كَلَامِهِ ↓ ترتّل, (T,) or فِى الكَلَامِ, (M, K,) signifies [in like manner] he proceeded in a leisurely manner (T, M, K) in his speech, or saying, (T,) or in the speech, or saying: (M, K:) Mujáhid explains التَّرْتِيل as signifying the proceeding in a leisurely manner [in reading, or reciting], and as being consecutive in its parts, or portions; regarding it as etymologically relating to ثَغْرٌ رَتِلٌ [q. v.]: (T:) accord. to Er-Rághib, it signifies the pronouncing the word [or words] with ease and correctness: this is the proper signification: but the conventional meaning, as verified by El-Munáwee, is the being regardful of the places of utterance of the letters, and mindful of the pauses, and the lowering of the voice, and making it plaintive, in reading, or reciting: (TA:) [accord. to Mtr,] the [proper] meaning of الترتيل in [the reciting, or chanting, of the Kur-án and of] the call to prayer &c. is the pronouncing of the letters in a leisurely manner, and distinctly, and so giving them their proper full sound; from the phrase ثَغْرٌ مُرَتَّلٌ and رَتِلٌ signifying “ front teeth separate, one from another, and even in the manner of growth, and well set together. ” (Mgh.) [See also تَرْسِيلٌ.] وَرَتَّلْنَاهُ تَرْتِيلًا, in the Kur [xxv. 34], means And we have sent it down unto thee in a leisurely manner: (M, TA:) or we have recited it to thee part after part, in a deliberate and leisurely manner; in [the course of] twenty years, or three and twenty: تَرْتِيلٌ in its original sense relating to the teeth, and having the signification explained in the beginning of this paragraph. (Bd.)

Derived headwords

تَرْتِيلٌverb
  1. 1.
رتّل الكَلَامَ
تَرْتِيلُ القُرْاآنِ
رَتَّلْتُ القُرْاآنَ
فِى كَلَامِهِ
فِى الكَلَامِ
ثَغْرٌ رَتِلٌ
ثَغْرٌ مُرَتَّلٌ