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رهو

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

رَهْوٌ ذ inf. n. of 1. (S, K, &c.) ― -b2- Also An intervening space (JK, TA) between two things, (JK,) as, for instance, between the two humps of a camel of the species termed فَالِج. (TA.) ― -b3- A place where water remains and collects or stagnates: (JK, TA:) a جَوْبَة [i. e. a depressed place, or a hollow, or an excavation, or such as is round and wide, ] in the place of abode of a people, into which flows the rain-water or other fluid: (A 'Obeyd, S:) or, as also ↓ رَهْوَةٌ, a depressed place (S, K) in which water collects: (S:) and, both words, an elevated place: thus they have two contr. significations: (S, K:) or ↓ رَهْوَةٌ signifies an elevation like a hillock, upon a hard and elevated, or an elevated and plain, tract of ground, or upon a mountain, (JK, TA,) where hawks and eagles alight: (TA:) or a hillock inclining to softness, two or three cubits in height, but only in a soft tract of ground, and in hard, or hard and level, ground consisting of earth, mould, or clay; not upon a mountain: (TA:) [and accord. to some, it signifies a mountain itself; for] Ghatafán are called in a trad. تَنْبَعُ مَاآءً ↓ رَهْوَةٌ, meaning a mountain welling forth water: or it means that in them were roughness and hardness: (TA:) the pl. [accord. to the S app. of رَهْوٌ, and accord. to the TA app. of ↓ رَهْوَةٌ, in each case agreeable with analogy,] is رِهَاآءٌ. * (S, TA.) ― -b4- [Also, accord. to Golius, as on the authority of the KL, A way through a market-place, at the sides of which sit the sellers: but not in my copy of the KL.] -A2- Also Wide, ample, or spacious. (TA.) ― -b2- A well (بِئْرٌ) wide in the mouth. (TA.) ― -b3- A woman (S) wide in the vulva; (Lth, ISh, S, K;) as also ↓ رَهْوَى (Lth, K) and ↓ رَهَاآءٌ: (IAar, K:) [or] a woman who will not refrain from vitious conduct, or adultery, or fornication; as also ↓ رَهْوَى: (JK, TA:) or (TA) a woman that is not approved on the occasion of جِمَاع, (JK, TA,) because of her being wide [ in the vulva ]. (JK.) ― -b4- A thing dispersed, or scattered. (TA.) ― -b5- And sometimes, Quick, or swift. (TA.) ― -b6- And Still, quiet, or motionless. (TA.) ― -b7- And [hence, or مَطَرٌ رَهْوٌ,] A still rain. (TA.) -A3- Also A company of men (JK, K, TA) following one another. (TA.) And غَارَةٌ رَهْوٌ [ A company of horsemen making a raid, or an inroad, or incursion, ] following one another. (TA.) And one says, النَّاسُ رَهْوٌ وَاحِدٌ مَا بَيْنَ كَذَا وَ كَذَا i. e. مُتَنَاظِرُونَ [app. meaning The people are disposed consecutively in one double rank, partly such and partly such, facing one another ]. (TA.) -A4- Also A certain species of bird; as some say, (S,) the [ species of crane called ] كُرْكِىّ: (JK, S, K, TA:) or a certain aquatic bird resembling the كركىّ: (TA:) pl. رِهَاآءٌ. (JK.) -A5- And A headcovering which is next to the head, and which very soon becomes dirty. (TA.)

Derived headwords

رَهْوٌ
  1. 1.
تَنْبَعُ مَاآءً
مَطَرٌ رَهْوٌ
غَارَةٌ رَهْوٌ
النَّاسُ رَهْوٌ وَاحِدٌ مَا بَيْنَ كَذَا وَ كَذَا