رفض

رَفْضٌ ذ Camels in a state of separation, or dispersion; and in like manner, men, and goods, and plants or herbage: (A:) or camels pasturing by themselves, (S, K,) the pastor seeing them, (S,) or looking at them, (K,) near or far off: (S:) you say, اـِبِلٌ رَفْضٌ (S, K,) and ↓ رَفَضٌ also, and ↓ رَافِضَةٌ: (S, A, K:) and the pl. of رَفَضٌ is أَرْفَاضٌ: (S, K:) [and ↓ رُفُوضٌ seems to be a pl. of رَفْضٌ.] Also A herd of gazelles in a state of separation, or dispersion: pl. رِفَاضٌ. (TA.) You say also ↓ نَعَامٌ رَفَضٌ Ostriches in separate flocks. (S.) And فِى السَّفَرِ ↓ النَّاسُ أَرْفَاضٌ The men are in a state of separation, or dispersion, in journeying. (TA.) And النَّاسِ ↓ رُفُوضُ The different parties of men. (S, K.) And مِنْ كَلَأٍ ↓ رُفُوضٌ Scattered pieces of herbage or pasturage, (Jm, S, K,) distant one from another. (Jm, S, O.) And الأَرْضِ ↓ رُفُوضُ Land which is deserted after having been prohibited to the public: (S:) or which has no possessor: (O, L, K:) so says IDrd; but he adds, or, accord. to some, deserted land (L, TA) between two cultivated pieces of land, (L,) or between two pieces of land belonging to two tribes. (TA.) ↓ رَفَضٌ also signifies What is large, and in a state of separation or dispersion, of a thing: pl. أَرْفَاضٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And رَفْضٌ, A side, or a part, or portion, (syn. جَانِبٌ,) of a thing. (TA.) ― -b3- Also رَفْضٌ, (IAar, ISk, Az, Z,) or ↓ رَفَضٌ, (AZ, Fr, A'Obeyd, S,) the latter said, in a marginal note in the S, to be the correct form heard from the Arabs, (TA,) or both, (Sgh, K,) A small quantity of water; (S, A, K;) and of milk; (A, TA;) remaining in the bottom of a skin or of a مَزَادَة; like a جُرْعَة: (TA:) or a little less than is sufficient to fill a skin: (IAar:) pl. ↓ أَرْفَاضٌ. (Lh.) ― -b4- And hence, the former, (tropical:) Food that is sufficient to sustain life; syn. قُوتٌ. (TA.)