رحب

رَحْبٌ ذ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ رَحِيبٌ (Msb, K) and ↓ رُحَابٌ (K) Ample, spacious, wide, or roomy; (S, A, K;) applied to a place, (Msb,) or a thing. (TA.) You say بِلَدٌ رَحْبٌ, and أَرْضٌ رَحْبَةٌ, An ample, or a spacious, or wide, country, and land, (S,) and ↓ ارض رَحِيبَةٌ also: and مَنْزِلٌ رَحْبٌ and ↓ رَحِيبٌ an ample, or a spacious, or wide, place of alighting or abode: and طَرِيقٌ رَحْبٌ a wide road. (TA.) And ↓ قِدْرٌ رُحَابٌ An ample cookingpot: (S:) and رُحَابٌ alone is [elliptically] used as meaning a cooking-pot. (Ham p. 721.) And ↓ اِمْرَأَةٌ رُحَابٌ A wide woman; (K;) meaning wide in respect of the فَرْج. (TK.) And رَجُلٌ الجَوْفِ ↓ رَحِيبُ A man ample, or wide, in the belly: and, as mentioned by Es-Suyootee, (assumed tropical:) a great eater; voracious; (TA;) and so رَحِيبٌ alone. (S, K, TA.) And رَجُلٌ رَحْبُ الصَّدْر (TA) and الصَّدْرِ ↓ رُحْبُ and الصَّدْرِ ↓ رَحِيبُ, (S, TA) A man ample, or dilated, in the breast, or bosom; [meaning (assumed tropical:) free-minded; free from distress of mind; without care: and free from narrowness of mind; liberal, munificent, or generous. ] (S, TA.) And رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ (tropical:) Liberal, munificent, or generous; as also رَحْبُ البَاعِ; and so الذِّرَاعِ ↓ رَحِيبُ and البَاعِ (A, TA.) And رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ means also (assumed tropical:) Having ample, or extensive, power, or strength, in cases of difficulty: (TA in the present art.:) or (tropical:) having ample strength, and power, and might in war or fight, courage, valour, or prowess. (TA in art. ذرع) And فُلَانٌ رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ لِكَذَا (tropical:) Such a one has power, or ability, for that. (A.) ― -b2- See also رَحَبَةٌ.