← Back to Al-Qamus al-Muhit

رفضه

Root entry · 25 derived lemmas

The root 'رفضه' primarily denotes the act of leaving, abandoning, or letting go. It extends to concepts of dispersal, falling away, and even scarcity, particularly in relation to water or resources. It also describes natural phenomena like the spreading of palm fronds or the scattering of tears.

Derived headwords

رَفَضَverb
  1. 1.
    to abandonboth

    To leave something or someone behind, to forsake or reject.

  2. 2.
    to let go (camels)classical

    To allow camels to disperse and graze freely in their pasture.

  3. 3.
    to spread (palm fronds)classical

    For the spathe of a palm tree to open and its spathe to fall.

  4. 4.
    to widen (valley)classical

    For a valley to become wide or expansive.

يَرْفُضُهُverb
  1. 1.
    he abandons itboth

    The present tense conjugation of the verb 'to abandon'.

يُرَفِّضُهُverb
  1. 1.
    he lets it disperseclassical

    The present tense conjugation of the verb 'to let disperse', often used for camels.

رَفْضًاnoun
  1. 1.
    abandonmentboth

    The act of abandoning or rejecting.

  2. 2.
    dispersalclassical

    The act of dispersing or scattering, especially of camels.

أَرْفَضَهَاverb
  1. 1.
    he let them disperseclassical

    Form IV verb meaning to cause something (like camels) to disperse.

رَفُوضًاnoun
  1. 1.
    dispersalclassical

    The state of being dispersed or scattered, used for camels grazing alone.

رَافِضَةnoun
  1. 1.
    a sect (Shi'a)classical

    A specific group within the Shi'a who rejected the first two caliphs.

أَرْفَضَverb
  1. 1.
    it widenedclassical

    Form IV verb meaning to become wide or expansive, used for a valley.

اسْتَرْفَضَverb
  1. 1.
    it widenedclassical

    Form X verb meaning to become wide or expansive, used for a valley.

رَفِيضadjective
  1. 1.
    rejectedboth

    Something that has been abandoned, rejected, or discarded.

الرَّفِيضnoun
  1. 1.
    veinclassical

    A vein or blood vessel.

  2. 2.
    splinterclassical

    A broken or splintered piece of a spear.

الرَّوَافِضnoun
  1. 1.
    desertersclassical

    A collective term for soldiers who abandon their leader.

الرَّافِضَةname
  1. 1.
    The Rejectorsclassical

    A specific sect of Shi'a who rejected the first two caliphs, Abu Bakr and Umar.

رَافِضِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    Shi'ite (sectarian)classical

    Pertaining to the Rafida sect, a specific group within Shi'a Islam.

رِفَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    fragmentsboth

    The broken or shattered parts of something that have scattered.

رُفُوضnoun
  1. 1.
    dispersed peopleclassical

    Groups of people who are scattered or separated.

  2. 2.
    unowned landclassical

    Portions of land that are not owned or possessed.

  3. 3.
    scattered herbageclassical

    Scattered or sparse vegetation.

الرِّفَاضَةnoun
  1. 1.
    herdsmenclassical

    Those who tend to scattered or dispersed livestock.

الرَّفْضnoun
  1. 1.
    scarcity of waterclassical

    A small amount of water.

مَرَافِضnoun
  1. 1.
    confluence pointsclassical

    Places where a flood or torrent collects or flows into.

قَبْضَة رَفْضَةadjective
  1. 1.
    hesitant gripclassical

    A person who holds onto something firmly but then lets go; indecisive.

تَرْفِيضverb
  1. 1.
    to leave a littleclassical

    To leave a small amount of something, like water in a waterskin.

  2. 2.
    to begin copulationclassical

    For a horse to begin to mount but not fully achieve erection.

ارْفِضَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    scatteringclassical

    The scattering or splashing of tears.

  2. 2.
    dispersalclassical

    The dispersal or disappearance of something.

تَرَفُّضverb
  1. 1.
    to break apartclassical

    To break into pieces, to shatter.

الرَّافِضnoun
  1. 1.
    the throwerclassical

    In the context of the Baahili quote, it refers to a thrower or archer who cannot reach a target due to distance.

تَرَفَّضَverb
  1. 1.
    it broke apartclassical

    To break into pieces, to shatter.

Parallel reading

رفضه يرفضه ويرفضه رفضا ورفضا: تركه
He abandoned it, he abandons it, and abandonment, and abandonment: he left it.
والإبل: تركها تتبدد في مرعاها، كأرفضها، فرفضت هي رفوضا: رعت وحدها
And camels: letting them disperse in their pasture, like he let them disperse, so they dispersed, scattering: they grazed alone.
والراعي ينظر إليها وهي إبل رافضة ورفض، ويحرك، وجمعه: أرفاض
And the shepherd looks at them while they are abandoning camels and abandoned, and it is moved, and its plural is: dispersals.
والنخل: انتشر عذقه، وسقط قيقاؤه
And palm trees: its spathe spread, and its spathe fell.
والوادي. اتسع، كأرفض واسترفض
And the valley. It widened, like it widened and it widened.
وشيء رفيض: مرفوض
And a thing is rafood: abandoned.
والرفيض: العرق، والمتكسر من الرماح
And the rafood: the vein, and the broken piece of spears.
والروافض: كل جند تركوا قائدهم
And the Rawafid: every soldier who abandoned their leader.
والرافضة: الفرقة منهم، وفرقة من الشيعة بايعوا زيد بن علي، ثم قالوا له: تبرأ من الشيخين، فأبى وقال: كانا وزيري جدي فتركوه، ورفضوه، وارفضوا عنه
And the Rafida: a faction among them, and a faction of the Shi'a pledged allegiance to Zayd ibn Ali, then they said to him: 'Disavow the two Sheikhs,' so he refused and said: 'They were the ministers of my grandfather, so they left him, and rejected him, and they abandoned him.'
والنسبة: رافضي
And the attribution: Rafidi.
ورفاض الشيء: ما تحطم منه، فتفرق
And the rifad of a thing: what breaks from it, and scatters.
ورفوض الناس: فرقهم، و من الأرض: ما لا يملك منها، والمتفرق من الكلأ، والرفاضة، كجبانة: الذين يرعونها
And the rufud of people: their divisions, and from the land: what is not owned from it, and the scattered herbage, and the Rifada, like Jubana: those who tend to it.
والرفض من الماء، ويسكن: القليل منه
And the rafḍ of water, and it is softened: a little of it.
ومرافض الوادي: حيث يرفض إليه السيل
And the confluence points of the valley: where the torrent flows into it.
ورجل قبضة رفضة، كهمزة: يتمسك بالشيء ثم يدعه
And a man of hesitant grip, like humaza: he holds onto something then lets it go.
ورفض في القربة ترفيضا: أبقى فيها قليلا من ماء
And he left in the waterskin a little: he kept a little water in it.
والفرس: أدلى ولم يستحكم إنعاظه
And the horse: it mounted and its erection was not firm.
وارفضاض الدموع: ترششها
And the irfidhad of tears: their splashing.
ومن الشيء: تفرقه، وذهابه، كالترفض
And from a thing: its dispersal, and its going away, like tarfud.
وترفض: تكسر
And it broke apart: it shattered.
والرافض في قول الباهلي: إذا ما الحجازيات أعلقن طنبت ... بميثاء لا يألوك رافضها صخرا الرامي، أي: إذا علقن أمتعتهن بالشجر، خيمت هي بسهلة لا يستطيعك الرامي بها أن يرمي صخرة لفقدانها
And the Rafid in the saying of Al-Bahili: 'When the Hijazi women hang their burdens... in a plain where its thrower cannot reach a rock,' meaning: when they hang their belongings on trees, it settles in an easy place where the thrower cannot hit a rock due to its distance.