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ريط

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to fine, soft, unseamed cloths or garments, often white. It also extends to the act of taking refuge or seeking shelter, and appears in place names and personal names.

Derived headwords

الرِّيطَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Unseamed clothclassical

    A garment or cloth that is made from a single piece of fabric, not sewn from multiple pieces.

  2. 2.
    Fine, soft clothclassical

    Any fine, thin, and soft fabric.

  3. 3.
    White garmentclassical

    Specifically, a white garment or cloth.

رِيطnoun
  1. 1.
    Unseamed clothsclassical

    The plural of 'rayṭah', referring to unseamed garments or cloths.

رِياطnoun
  1. 1.
    Unseamed clothsclassical

    Another plural form of 'rayṭah', referring to unseamed garments or cloths.

الرَّائِطَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Unseamed clothclassical

    Similar to 'rayṭah', a garment made from a single piece of fabric.

  2. 2.
    Fine, soft clothclassical

    A fine, soft fabric.

رائطةname
  1. 1.
    Female nameclassical

    A proper name for a woman.

وَرِيطname
  1. 1.
    Place nameclassical

    A name of a place.

يَرِيطverb
  1. 1.
    to take refugeclassical

    To seek refuge, to take shelter, or to hide.

  2. 2.
    to ascendclassical

    To go up or ascend to a higher place.

Parallel reading

الريطة: الملاءة إذا كانت قطعة واحدة ولم تكن لفقين
The rayṭah: the sheet when it is one piece and not of two sewn parts.
وقيل: الريطة كل ملاءة غير ذات لفقين كلها نسج واحد
And it was said: The rayṭah is every sheet not of two sewn parts, all of it one weave.
وقيل: هو كل ثوب لين دقيق
And it was said: It is every soft, thin garment.
والجمع ريط ورياط
And the plural is riṭ and riyāṭ.
أهل الرياط البيض والقلنسي
The people of the white garments and the caps.
لا تكون الريطة إلا بيضاء
The rayṭah is only white.
أتي برائطة يتمندل بها بعد الطعام فطرحها
A rāʾiṭah was brought to be used as a napkin after food, and he discarded it.
يعني بمنديل
He meant by it a napkin.
وأصحاب العربية يقولون ريطة
And the Arabic scholars say rayṭah.
ابتاعوا لي ريطتين نقيتين
Buy me two pure rayṭahs.
أنه أتي بكفنه ريطتين
That he was brought two rayṭahs for his shroud.
الحي أحوج إلى الجديد من الميت
The living are more in need of the new than the dead.
ومع كل واحد منهم ريطة من رياط الجنة
And with each one of them is a rayṭah from the garments of Paradise.
وريطة اسم للمرأة
And Rayṭah is a name for a woman.
ولا يقال رائطة
And Rāʾiṭah is not said (for a woman's name).
تحل بأطراف الوجاف، ودارها ... حويل فريطات
She resides at the edges of Al-Wajaf, and her dwelling is around Fariṭāt.
وراط الوحشي بالأكمة يريط: لاذ
And the wild animal took refuge by the mound, yariṭu: it took refuge.
ويروط أعلى
And yaruṭu: it ascended.