رجع

رَجِيعٌ ذ . [ Made, or caused, to return, go back, come back, or revert; sent back, turned back, or returned: repeated: rebutted, rejected, or repudiated, in reply, or replication: like ↓ مَرْجُوعٌ: and used in all these senses; as will be seen from what follows: and also, like ↓ مُرَجَّعٌ,] made, or caused, to return, go back, come back, or revert, again and again, or time after time; sent back, turned back, or returned, again and again, or time after time; made, or caused, to go, or move, repeatedly to and fro; so to go and come; to reciprocate: reiterated: reproduced: renewed: syn. مُرَدَّدٌ: [in the CK مَرْدُودٌ:] applied to anything: (S, K:) or to anything that is said or done: (Msb, TA:) because meaning ↓ مَرْجُوعٌ, i. e. مَرْدُودٌ: (S, Msb, TA:) or, applied to speech, (assumed tropical:) returned to its author; or repeated to him; or rebutted, rejected, or repudiated, in reply to him; syn. مَرْدُودٌ اـِلَى صَاحِبِهِ: (Lth, K:) or, so applied, (tropical:) repeated: (A, TA:) or, so applied, (assumed tropical:) reiterated: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or, so applied, (assumed tropical:) disapproved, or disliked. (TA.) You say, اـِيَّاكَ وَالرَّجِيعَ مِنَ القَوْلِ (tropical:) Avoid thou the saying that is repeated; (A, TA;) [or rebutted, &c.;] or disapproved. (TA.) ― -b2- Applied to a beast, (S, TA,) and [particularly] to a camel, (K,) it signifies Made to return from journey to journey: (S, TA:) and also means (assumed tropical:) fatigued, or jaded, (S, K,) by journeying: (K:) fem. with رُجُعٌ (S, K:) or (tropical:) lean, or emaciated: (Er-Rághib, K:) in the K is here added, or which thou hast made to return from a journey, meaning from journey to journey; but this is identical with the first explanation of the word applied to a beast: (TA:) pl. رُجُعٌ; (K;) or [app. of the fem., agreeably with analogy, and as seems to be indicated by J,] رَجَائِعُ. (S.) رَجِيعُ سَفَرٍ and سَفَرٍ ↓ رِجْعُ [in like manner] signify Made to return repeatedly, or several times, in journeying; applied to a she-camel: (K:) and the former signifies, applied to a beast, and [particularly] to a camel, a he-camel, (بَعِير,) which one makes to return again and again, or time after time, or to come and go repeatedly, in journeying, and drags along: (TA:) both also mean (tropical:) lean, or emaciated: and are in like manner applied to a man: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and ↓ رَجْعِىٌّ and ↓ مَرْجَعَانِىٌّ, also, but the latter is vulgar, (assumed tropical:) lean, or emaciated, by journeying; applied to a beast. (TA.) You say also سَفْرٌ رَجِيعٌ Travellers returning from a journey. (TA.) And سَفَرٌ رَجِيعٌ A journey in which are repeated returnings. (IAar.) ― -b3- Any food returned to the fire [ to be heated again ], having became cold: (K:) [and particularly] roasted meat heated a second time. (As.) ― -b4- A rope, or cord, undone, and then twisted a second time: (L, K:) and, as some say, anything done a second time. (L.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Writing retraced with the pen, in order that it may became more plain: (KL:) and ↓ مَرْجُوعٌ [signifies the same: and also] (assumed tropical:) tattooing repeated and renewed; (EM p. 108;) tattooing of which the blackness has been restored: (TA:) pl. of the latter مَرَاجِيعُ. (TA, and EM ubi suprà.) ― -b6- (tropical:) Dung, ordure, or excrement, of a solid-hoofed animal; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ رَجْعٌ; (K;) and of a man; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ the latter word; (TA;) and of a beast of prey; as also ↓ the latter: (S, TA:) because it returns from its first state, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) after having been food or fodder &c.; (TA;) having the meaning of an act. part. n., (Er-Rághib, Msb,) or, it may be, of a pass. part. n. (Er-Rághib.) ― -b7- (tropical:) The cud which is ruminated by camels and the like: (S, * K:) because it returns to be eaten. (TA.) So in the saying of El-Aashà, وَفَلَاةٍ كَأَنَّهَا ظَهْرُ تُرْسٍ لَيْسَ اـِلَّا الرَّجِيعَ فِيهَا عَلَاقُ i. e. [ Many a desert, or waterless desert, as though it were the back of a shield, ] in which there is not found by the camels anything to serve for the support of life except the cud. (S.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) Sweat: (K:) because, having been water, it returns as sweat. (TA.) ― -b9- See also رَجْعٌ, in three places. ― -b10- Also (assumed tropical:) The [ part called ] فَأْس of a bit: (Ibn-' Abbád, K:) [because of its returning motion.] ― -b11- And (assumed tropical:) Niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious; syn. بَخِيلٌ [in the CK and a MS. copy of the K, نَخِيل]. (Ibn-' Abbád, K, TA.)