Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

Q. 1 رَهْدَنَ ذ , (TA,) inf. n. رَهْدَنَةٌ, (K, TA,) He circled in walking [ like the bird called رَهْدَنٌ]: (K, TA:) or he was as though he circled in his gait. (Az, TA.) See رَهْدَنٌ. ― -b2- He was, or became, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward. (K, TA.) And He was, or became, restricted, or limited. (K, TA.) A poet, cited by IAar to Th, says, فَجِئْتُ بِالنَّقْدِ وَلَمْ أُرَهْدِنْ i. e. [ And I brought the cash, or ready money, and ] was not slow, or tardy, &c., and was not restricted, or limited, with it. (TA.)

رَهْدَنٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ رُهْدَنٌ and ↓ رِهْدَنٌ (K) A certain bird, in Mekkeh, like the عُصْفُور [or sparrow ]; (S, K;) as also ↓ رَهْدَنَةٌ, and ↓ رُهْدُنَّةٌ and ↓ رُهْدُونٌ: (K:) and a certain bird resembling the جُمَّر, [which is said by Es-Sakháwee, cited in the Msb in art. حمر, to be the قُبَّر, i. e. lark, ] except that it is أَدْبَس [i. e. brown, or of a colour between black and red, or of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, in which are redness and blackness ], and is larger than the حُمَّر; as also ↓ رَهْدَنَةٌ: (S, TA:) pl. رَهَادِنُ: (S, K:) and رَهْدَلٌ, pl. رَهَادِلُ, signifies the same: (TA:) or the ↓ رُهْدُنَّة is a bird resembling the قُنْبُرَة [or lark ], that moves as though circling (كَأَنَّهَا تَسْتَدِيرُ ↓ تُرَهْدِنُ) in her gait: (JK:) and accord. to the L, in art. حضب, the رَهْدَن is the قُنْبُر [or lark ]. (TA in that art.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A coward: (K, TA:) as being likened to the bird so called. (TA.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) Foolish; stupid; or unsound, or deficient, in intellect or under- standing: (K:) or so the first word (رَهْدَنٌ): or a weak man: (JK:) pl. رَهَادِنَةٌ. (TA.)

رُهْدَنٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

رُهْدُنٌ ذ , without teshdeed, (assumed tropical:) A heavy [or slow ] man. (JK.)

رِهْدَنٌ ذ : see رَهْدَنٌ.

رَهْدَنَةٌ ذ and رُهْدُنَّةٌ: see رَهْدَنٌ; for each in two places.

رُهْدُونٌ ذ : see رَهْدَنٌ. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A liar. (K.)

1 رَهVطَ see what next follows.

8 نَحْنُ ذَوُو ا@رْتِهَاطٍ ذ We are collected together, or congregated; as also ↓ نَحْنُ ذَوُو رَهْطٍ: (K, TA:) [the last word in each of these phrases being an inf. n.; unless that in the latter be a mistake for أَرْهُطٍ, (a pl. of رَهْطٌ,) which I find put in the place of رَهْطٍ in a MS. copy of the K:] from Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.) ― -b2- In a trad. occurs the phrase, فَأَيْقَظَنَا وَنَحْنُ ا@رْتِهَاطٌ [ And he waked us, ] we being parties collected together, or congregated: the last word being an inf. n. put in the place of the verb [or rather of the part. n., or for ذَوُو ا@رَتِهَاطٍ]. (TA.)

رَهْطٌ ذ (Lth, S, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ رَهَطٌ, (Lth, Msb, K,) but the former is the more chaste, (Lth, Msb,) A man's people, and tribe, (S, Msb, K,) consisting of his nearer relations: (Msb:) [i. e. his near kinsfolk: ] and a number of men less than ten, among whom is no woman; (AZ, S, Msb, K;) as also نَفَرٌ: (AZ, Msb:) or from seven to ten; (IDrd, Msb, K;) and sometimes a little more; (IDrd;) less than seven, to three, being called نَفَرٌ: (Msb:) or from three to ten: (K:) or i. q. عَشِيرَةٌ: (ISk, Msb:) or more than ten, to forty: (As, IF, Msb:) a pl., (S, Msb,) or a word having a pl. meaning, (Th, Az, Msb,) without any proper sing.; (Th, Az, S, Msb, K;) like نَفَرٌ and قَوْمٌ and مَعْشَرٌ and عَشِيرَةٌ; all applied to men, exclusive of women: (Th, Msb:) and ↓ أُرْهُوطٌ signifies the same: (ISh, TA:) the pl. of رهط is أَرْهُطٌ (Lth, S, K) and أَرْهِطَةٌ (Lth) and أَرْهَاطٌ, (S, K,) [all pls. of pauc.,] the last of these being pl. either of رَهَطٌ or of رَهْطٌ, (TA,) and أَرَاهِطُ, (S, ISd, K,) as though pl. of أَرْهُطٌ, (S, ISd,) though Sb makes it pl. of رَهْطٌ, because of the rareness of the pl. pl., (ISd,) and أَرَاهِيطُ [which is app. pl. of أَرْهَاطٌ]. (S, K.) You say, هُمْ رَهْطُهُ دِنْيَةً They are his people, and his tribe, closely related. (S, TA.) And it is said in the Kur [xxvii. 49], وَكَانَ قِى المَدِينَةِ تِسْعَةُ رَهْطٍ, (S,) but this means, [ And there were in the city ] nine persons, (Bd,) or nine men. (Jel.) ― -b2- You also say رَهْطٌ مِنْ عُشَرٍ [ A collection of plants of the kind called عشر]. (IAar, Sh, TA in art. ايك.) -A2- An enemy; syn. عَدُوٌّ; (K, TA; [in the CK عَدْو;]) mentioned by Sgh, on the authority of Ibn- 'Abbád. (TA.) -A3- A skin, (K,) or a waistwrapper (اـِزَار) made of leather, (Jm,) the sides of which are slit in several places in their lower parts, so that one may walk in it; (Jm, K;) or made of skin, and also of wool; (Aboo-Tálib the Grammarian;) or a skin of Et-Táïf, slit in several places; (M, TA;) or a skin of a size equal to the space between the navel and the knee; (S;) or a skin slit into a number of thongs or strips; (ISh, S, K;) or a skin cut into a number of thongs or strips, these being one above another; (AHeyth;) or a waist-wrapper (مِئْزَر) made of skin, or leather, slit in several places, except in the place of the pudendum; (TA;) or a skin slit into strips, each strip being of the breadth of four fingers; (IAar;) worn by children, (M, K,) or by a young girl before she has arrived at puberty, (IAar,) and by a woman in menstruis: (IAar, S, M, K, &c.:) [in Nubia, the رَهْط, still called by that name, is very neatly made, consisting of a great number of slender thongs: it is worn there by young girls, and is generally their only covering, completely surrounding and concealing the pelvic portion of the body, and the whole or part of the thighs:] in the Time of Ignorance, the men used to perform their circuitings [around the Kaabeh] naked, and the women wearing [only] the رهط: (S:) [see also حَوْفٌ, in two places:] the pl. is أَرْهَاطٌ [a pl. of pauc.] (S, TA) and رِهَاطٌ: (ISh, S, K:) or this last is a sing. also, (K,) signifying a piece of leather of a size equal to the space between the place of the waist-band and the knee, slit in several places like the [ thongs called ] شُرُك [ of the sandal, pl. of شِرَاك]; worn by a girl of seven years: or a garment worn by the boys of the Arabs of the desert, consisting of overlapping folds or plies, one above another, like fans: (TA:) pl. أَرْهِطَةٌ [a pl. of pauc.]. (K.)

رَهَطٌ ذ : see رَهْطٌ.

رَهْطِىٌّ ذ Of, or relating to, or belonging to, a رَهْط, meaning a man's people, and tribe, &c. (L.)

رُهَطَةٌ ذ : see what next follows.

رُهَطَاآءُ ذ : see what next follows.

رَاهِطَاآءُ ذ and ↓ رُهَطَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ رُهَطَاآءُ, (K,) like دَامَّاآءُ, (S,) One of the holes of the jerboa, from which it takes forth the earth or dust, (S, K,) and collects it; (S;) it is the first hole that it excavates; (TA:) and is between the قَاصِعَاآء and the نَافِقَاآء; and therein it hides its young: (Az, TA:) or, as AHeyth explains the first of these words, what the jerboa makes, or puts, at the mouth of the قاصعاء, and what is behind that, covering its hole except enough to admit the light from it. (TA.)

أُرْهُوطٌ ذ : see رَهْطٌ.

1 رَهُفَ ذ , aor. رَهُفَ , inf. n. رَهَافَةٌ (JK, MA, K) and رَهَفٌ (JK, K) and رَهْفٌ, (TA,) It (a sword, K, or a thing [of any kind], JK, TA) was, or became, thin, and slender; (JK, K, TA;) it (a sword) was, or became, thin in the edge or point; (Ham p. 349;) it was, or became, sharp, or keen; contr. of كَلَّ. (MA.) -A2- رَهَفَهُ: see what next follows.

4 ارهفهُ ذ , (JK, S, K, &c.,) inf. n. اـِرْهَافٌ; (Ham p. 93;) and ↓ رَهَفَهُ, aor. رَهَفَ , (K,) inf. n. رَهْفٌ; (TA;) He made it (a sword, S, K, &c., or a thing [of any kind], JK) thin, (S, MA, K,) or sharp or pointed; (JK, MA;) he made it (a sword) thin in the edge or point; (Ham p. 93;) he made it sharp, or keen. (MA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَرْهَفْتَ عَلَيْنَا لِسَانَكَ (tropical:) [ Thou hast sharpened against us thy tongue ]. (A, TA.) And أَرْهِفْ غَرْبَ ذِهْنِكَ لِمَا أَقولُ (tropical:) [ Sharpen the edge of thine intellect for what I say ]. (A, TA.)

رَهِيفٌ ذ Thin; slender; (JK, TA;) applied in this sense to a sword; (TA;) and also to a neck: (ISh, TA in art. بتع:) or thin in the edge or point; applied to a sword: (Ham p. 349:) or sharp, or keen; thus applied: (JK, * MA:) but Az says that it is seldom used; ↓ مُرْهَفٌ being used in its stead. (TA.)

مُرْهَفٌ ذ (JK, S, TA) and ↓ مَرْهُوفٌ (JK, TA) Made thin; (JK, S, TA;) applied to a sword, (S, TA,) or to an arrow: (JK:) and the former, [or each,] made sharp or pointed: (JK:) [or made thin in the edge or pointed: or made sharp or keen: see 4:] and see also رَهِيفٌ. ― -b2- أُذُنٌ مُرْهَفَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A slender ear. (TA.) And خَصْرٌ مُرْهَفٌ (assumed tropical:) A slender waist. (Ham p. 93.) And رَجُلٌ مُرْهَفُ الجِسْمِ (JK, TA) and ↓ البَدَنِ ↓ مَرْهُوفُ, but the former is the more common, (tropical:) A man slender in the body. (TA.) ― -b3- فَرَسٌ مُرْهَفٌ (assumed tropical:) A horse lank in the belly, having the ribs near together: which is a fault. (IDrd, K, TA.)

مُرْهَفَةٌ ذ [as a subst., or an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant,] Swords; (Ham p. 93;) and so مُرْهَفَاتٌ: (S and TA in art. برد:) or swords made thin in the edge or point. (Ham p. 349.) One says مُرْهَفَاتٌ بَوَارِدُ Sharp, or cutting, swords: (TA in art. برد:) or slaying swords. (S in that art.)

مَرْهُوفٌ ذ : see مُرْهَفٌ, in two places.

1 رَهِقَهُ ذ , (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. رَهَقَ , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. رَهَقٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) He, or it, came upon, properly as a thing that covered, him, or it; or came to him, or it; syn. غَشِيَهُ: (S, K:) and (K) reached, or overtook, him, or it: (ElFárábee, Msb, K:) or it signifies, (K,) or signifies also, (S,) he drew near to, or approached, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) whether he took, or did not take, (S, K,) him, or it: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) or he followed him, and was near to reaching, or overtaking, him. (JK.) It is said in the Kur [x. 27], وَلَا يَرْهَقُ وَجُوهَهُمْ قَتَرٌ وَلَا ذِلَّةٌ, meaning (assumed tropical:) And there shall not come upon, or overspread, their faces [ blackness, or darkness, nor abjectness, or ignominy ]. (S, TA.) And you say, رَهِقَهُ الدَّيْنُ, (Msb, TA,) or دَيْنٌ, (Mgh,) Debt, or a debt, came upon him. (Mgh, Msb, TA.) And رَهِقَتْنَا الصَّلَاةُ, (inf. n. رُهُوقٌ, Msb, or رَهَقٌ, TA,) (tropical:) The time of prayer came upon us. (Mgh, * Msb, TA.) And it is said in a trad., اـِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ اـِلَى الشَّىْءِ فَلْيَرْهَقْهُ, i. e. [ When any one of you prays towards the thing, ] let him come near to it. (JK, S. [In the Mgh, اـِلَى سُتْرَةٍ فَلْيَرْهَقْهَا, i. e. towards a thing that he has set up for that purpose, &c.]) One says also, طَلَبْتُ فُلَانًا حَتَّى رَهِقْتُهُ, inf. n. رَهَقٌ, I sought such a one until I drew near to him, and, as it sometimes means, took him, or, as it sometimes means, did not take him. (S.) And طَلَبْتُ الشَّىْءَ حَتَّى رَهِقْتُهُ وَكِدْتُ اآخُذُهُ أَوْ أَخَذْتُهُ [ I sought the thing until I came near to it, and I almost took it, or I took it ]. (Az, Msb.) And رَهَقَ شُخُوصُ فُلَانٍ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ Such a one's going, or going forth or away, ] drew near. (S.) ↓ أَرْهَقْتُهُ also signifies I drew near to it; syn. دَانَيْتُهُ. (Msb.) And one says, اللَّيْلُ ↓ أَرْهَقَكُمُ فَأَسْرِعُوا, i. e. (tropical:) The night has drawn near [ to you, therefore hasten ye ]; syn. دَنَا. (TA.) ― -b2- You say also, رَهِقَهُ بِمَا يَكْرَهُ, inf. n. رَهَقٌ, He did to him that which he disliked, or hated. (JK.) ― -b3- And رَهِقْتُ اـِثْمًا: see 4. -A2- رَهِقَ as an intrans. v.: see رَهَقٌ, which is its inf. n., below.

2 رُهِّقَ ذ He was one to whom رَهَقٌ [q. v.] was attributed. (Mgh.) [ He was one to whom ignorance was attributed; an object of suspicion in respect of his religion: (see the part. n., below:) or he was suspected of evil conduct. ] It is said in a trad., صَلَّى عَلَى ا@مْرَأَةٍ تُرَهَّقُ, (S, Mgh,) meaning [ He prayed over a woman ] suspected of evil conduct. (S.)

3 راهق ذ , (S, Msb, K,) and راهق الحُلُمَ, (JK, Az, K, all in art. خلف,) inf. n. مُرَاهَقَةٌ, (Msb,) He (a boy) was, or became, near to attaining puberty, or virility; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ ارهق, inf. n. اـِرْهَاقٌ. (Msb.) And راهقت العِشْرِينَ [ She nearly attained the age of twenty ]. (K in art. عصر.)

4 ارهقهُ طُغْيَانًا ذ i. q. أَغْشَاهُ اـِيَّاهُ [i. e. He made excessive disobedience to come upon him, properly as a thing that covered him ]; (S, K;) and أَلْحَقَهُ بِهِ [i. e. made it to reach him, or overtake him, or befall him ]. (K.) It is said in the Kur xviii. 79, فَخَشِينَا أَنْ يُرْهِقَهُمَا طُغْيَانًا وَكُفْرًا, meaning [ And we disapproved ] that he should make excessive disobedience, and ingratitude, to come upon them twain, by his undutiful conduct, so bringing evil upon them: or that he should couple with the faith of them twain his excessive disobedience and his ingratitude, so that there would be in one house two believers and one who was excessively disobedient and ungrateful: or that he should communicate to them twain his excessive disobedience and his ingratitude. (Ksh, Bd. [See also خَشِىَ.]) And one says, أَرْهَقَنِى فُلَانٌ اـِثْمًا ↓ حَتَّى رَهِقْتُهُ, meaning Such a one made me to hear the burden of a sin, [ as though he made the sin to come upon me as a burden, ] so that I bore it. (S.) And أَرْهَقْتُ الرَّجُلَ أَمْرًا I made, required, or constrained, the man to bear, or endure, a thing, or an event. (Msb.) And راهقهُ عُسْرًا He made, required, or constrained, him to do a difficult thing: (AZ, S, Mgh, K:) or he made a difficulty to come upon him, properly as a thing that covered him; syn. أَغْشَاهُ اـِيَّاهُ. (Ksh and Bd in xviii. 72.) And ارهقهُ, alone, He demanded of him a difficult thing. (S, Msb, K.) You say, لَا تُرْهِقْنِى لَا أَرْهَقَكَ ا@للّٰهُ Demand not thou of me a difficult thing: may God not demand of thee a difficult thing. (AZ, S, K.) And اـِرْهَاقٌ signifies also The inciting, or urging, a man to do a thing that he is not able to do. (Az, K, TA.) ― -b2- You say also, أَرْهَقْنَاهُمُ الخَّيْلَ We made the horsemen to overtake them, or come up with them: (TA:) or to be near doing so. (JK.) ― -b3- And ارهق الصَّلَاةَ (tropical:) He delayed the prayer (JK, S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) until it approached the other [ next after it ], (JK,) or until it almost approached the other, (Mgh, K, TA,) or until the time of the other approached. (S, Msb.) ― -b4- And أَرْهَقْتُهُ أَنْ يُصَلِّىَ i. q. أَعْجَلْتُهُ عَنْهَا [i. e. I hurried him so as to prevent him from praying: see similar phrases in art. عجل]. (K.) ― -b5- See also 1, near the end of the paragraph, in two places: ― -b6- and see 3. -A2- ارهقت الدَّابَّةُ السَّرْجَ: see 4 in art. زهق.

رَهَقٌ ذ The doing of forbidden things: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) wrongdoing; wrongful, unjust, in jurious, or tyrannical, conduct: (Fr, S, K:) it has this meaning in the Kur lxxii. 13, (S, TA,) accord. to Fr; or, as some say, the former mean ing: (TA:) the doing evil: (AA, K:) and a subst. from اـِرْهَاقٌ signifying the inciting, or urging, a man to do a thing that he is not able to do: (Az, K:) lightwittedness; or lightness and hastiness of disposition or deportment; (S, K;) and excessive disobedience: so in the Kur lxxii. 6, (S, TA,) accord. to some: (TA:) foolishness, or stupidity: lightness, or levity: (K:) or ignorance, and lightness of intellect: (JK:) and illnature, or evil disposition: (TA:) and haste: (K:) and lying: (Mgh, K:) in all these senses, [i. e. in all that have been mentioned above as from the K, and app. in others also, above and below,] its verb is ↓ رَهِقَ, aor. رَهَقَ , [meaning He did forbidden things: acted wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or tyrannically: &c.:] (K, TA:) of which it is the inf. n.: (TA:) and the following meanings also are assigned to it [app. by interpreters of the passages in which it occurs in the Kur]: sus picion, or evil opinion: and sin: accord. to Katádeh: lowness, vileness, or meanness; and weakness; accord. to Zj: error; accord. to Ibn El-Kelbee: and bad, or corrupt, conduct: and pride: and so ↓ رَهْقَةٌ, in these two senses: and the commission of a sin or crime or fault; syn. عَنَتٌ: and the act of reaching, or overtaking [app. of some evil accident]: and perdition. (TA.)

رَهِقٌ ذ A man in whose conduct, or character, is رَهَقٌ [expl. above: i. e. one who does forbidden things: &c.]: (O:) hasty: quick to do evil: and self-conceited; proud, or haughty. (TA.) And رَهِقَةٌ A vitious woman; or an adulteress, or a fornicatress. (TA.)

رَهْقَةٌ ذ : see رَهَقٌ.

يَعْدُو الرَّهَقَى ذ He runs quickly, so as to require his pursuer to do what is difficult or what is beyond his power (حَتَّى يُرْهِقَ طَالِبَهُ, or, as in the CK, حتّى يُرْهَقَ طَالِبُهُ [which is virtually the same]): (M, K, TA:) or he runs quickly, so that he almost reaches, or overtakes, (حتّى يَكَادَ يَرْهَقُ,) the object of his pursuit. (JK.)

رُهْقَانُ مِائَةٍ ذ : see what next follows.

رُهَاقُ مِائَةٍ ذ and رِهَاقُ مِائِةٍ As many as a hundred; (AZ, ISk, JK, S, K;) as also مائة ↓ رُهْقَانُ: (so in one of my copies of the S:) such are said to be a man's camels, (JK,) or such is said to be a company of men. (AZ, ISk, S.)

رَهُوقٌ ذ A wide-stepping, and quick, or excellent, she-camel, that comes upon him who leads her so as almost to tread upon him with her feet. (En Nadr, K.)

رَهِيقٌ ذ Wine: (K:) a dial. var. of رَحِيقٌ, like as مَدْهٌ is of مَدْحٌ. (TA.)

رَاهِقٌ ذ applied to a boy, and رَاهِقَةٌ applied to a girl, From ten to eleven years old. (TA.) [See also مُرَاهِقٌ.]

رَيْهُقَانٌ ذ Saffron. (JK, IDrd, S, K.)

مُرْهَقٌ ذ Reached, or overtaken, (JK, S, O, K,) to be slain. (S, O.) ― -b2- Straitened. (Ham p. 682.)

أَتَيْنَا فِى العُصَيْرِ المُرْهِقَةِ ذ (tropical:) [app. We came when the time of the afternoon-prayer was drawing near; العُصَيْر being the dim. of العَصْرُ: see the phrase أَرْهَقَكُمُ اللَّيْلُ فَأَسْرِعُوا, near the end of the first paragraph]. (TA.)

مُرَهَّقٌ ذ One to whom men come (S, K, TA) often, (TA,) and at whose abode guests alight. (JK, S, K, * TA.) ― -b2- Also One to whom رَهَقٌ [q. v.] is attributed: (JK, K:) [said in the TA to have no verb; but this is not the case: see 2:] one of whom evil is thought: (JK, S, K:) or who is suspected of evil, or of lightwittedness: (TA:) one to whom ignorance is attributed: (Mgh;) an object of suspicion in respect of his religion: (Mgh, TA:) corrupt [ in conduct ]: one in whom is sharpness [ of temper ] and lightwittedness. (TA.)

مُرَاهِقٌ ذ Near to attaining puberty; applied to a boy: (JK, Mgh, TA:) and with ة applied to a girl. (TA.) [See also رَاهِقٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence,] دَخَلَ مَكَّةَ مُرَاهِقًا (tropical:) He entered Mekkeh nearly at the end of the [ proper ] time [ to do so as a pilgrim ], so that he almost missed the halt at 'Arafát. (Nh, O, K, TA.) And صَلَّى الظُّهْرَ مُرَاهِقًا (tropical:) He performed the noon-prayer nearly missing the time. (TA.)

1 رَهِلَ لَحْمُهُ ذ , (S, K,) [aor. رَهَلَ ,] inf. n. رَهَلٌ, (JK, TA,) His flesh was, or became, quivering, and flaccid, or flabby: (S, K:) and (some say, TA) his flesh was, or became, inflated, or puffy, or swollen, (K, TA,) in any part: (TA:) or it was, or became, swollen without disease; (JK, K, TA;) he being flaccid by reason of fatness, (JK, TA,) and inclining to weakness. (TA.) [See also 5.]

2 رهّلهُ ذ , inf. n. تَرْهِيلٌ, It (flesh-meat) rendered it (i. e. his flesh) quivering, and flaccid, or flabby: (S, K:) or inflated, or swollen: or swollen without disease: (K: [see 1:]) or it (much sleep) rendered his face swollen, and the parts below, or around, his eyes puffy. (TA.)

5 ترهّل ذ He was, or became, soft in the flesh: and it (the flesh of a limb or member) was, or became, soft. (KL.) [See also 1.]

رِهْلٌ ذ [in the Lexicons of Golius and Freytag رِهَلٌ] Thin clouds, resembling [ falling ] dew, (K, TA,) in the sky. (TA.)

رَهَلٌ ذ Yellow water [or fluid ] in the سُخْد [app. here meaning the membrane that encloses the fœtus of a beast ]. (IDrd, K.)

رَهِلٌ ذ Quivering, and flaccid, or flabby, flesh. (TA.) And رَهِلٌ الصَّدْرِ A horse quivering, and flaccid, or flabby, in the breast. (S, TA.)

أَصْبَحَ مُرَهَّلًا ذ He was, or became, in the morning, swollen (K, TA) in his face, by reason of much sleep. (TA. [See 2. In some copies of the K, تَهَيَّجَ is erroneously put, in this explanation, for تَهَبَّجَ.])

1 رُهِمَتِ الأَرْضُ ذ The land was rained upon [ with such rain as is termed رِهْمَة]. (Z, TA.)

4 ارهمت السَّمَاآءُ ذ , (JK, K,) or السَّحَابَةُ, (S,) The sky, or the cloud, shed the sort of rain, or rains, termed رِهْمة, or رِهَام. (JK, S, K.)

رِهْمَةٌ ذ A drizzling and lasting rain; i. e. a lasting, or continuous, rain, consisting of small drops: (JK:) or weak and lasting rain, (S, K,) said by AZ to be such as falls with more force, and passes away more quickly, than that which is termed دِيمَةٌ: (S:) pl. رِهَمٌ and رِهَامٌ: (JK, S, K:) El-Ámidee seems to have held that رِهَامٌ is pl. of رَهَمَةٌ; for he likens these two words to اـِكَامٌ and أَكَمَةٌ; but this is at variance with what is held by the leading lexicologists. (TA.) [See an ex. of the pl. رِهَامٌ in a verse of Lebeed cited in the first paragraph of art. رزق.]