رضع

Root entry · 26 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of suckling, nursing, and breastfeeding. It extends to related concepts like the milk itself, the nurse, and metaphorically to qualities like baseness or meanness acquired from upbringing.

Derived headwords

رَضَعَverb

1.
to suckleboth
To suck milk from the breast or udder.

رَضْعًاnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or nursing.

رِضَاعًاnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or nursing.

رِضَاعَةًnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or nursing.
2.
breastfeedingboth
The act of providing milk to a child.

رُضِعَverb

1.
to be suckledboth
To be nursed or to have milk drawn from the breast.

رَاضِعٌadjective

1.
sucklingboth
One who is suckling or nursing.
2.
meanclassical
Describing someone as base or ignoble, metaphorically having acquired this trait from their mother's milk.

رُكَّعٌnoun

1.
sucklersboth
Plural of 'rāḍiʿ', referring to those who suckle.

رُضَّعٌnoun

1.
sucklingsboth
Plural of 'rāḍiʿ', referring to infants being suckled.

عُنُقٌnoun

1.
sucklingsboth
Plural of 'rāḍiʿ', referring to infants being suckled.

رَضُعَverb

1.
to be meanclassical
To be base or ignoble.

رَضَاعَةٌnoun

1.
meannessclassical
Baseness or ignobility.

رَضِيعٌadjective

1.
meanclassical
Base or ignoble.

رِضَاعٌnoun

1.
meannessclassical
Baseness or ignobility.

الرُّضَّعُnoun

1.
meannessclassical
Baseness or ignobility.

الرَّاضِعُadjective

1.
mean personclassical
A base or ignoble person.
2.
deceptive personclassical
One who pretends not to have something (like milk) to avoid giving it.
3.
opportunistclassical
One who picks food from between their teeth so as not to miss anything.
4.
beggarclassical
One who asks people for things, metaphorically 'suckling' from them.

الرَّضَاعَةُnoun

1.
waspclassical
A type of wasp.
2.
windclassical
A wind between the east and south.

الرِّضْعُnoun

1.
shrubsclassical
Shrubs that camels graze on.

رَضِيعُكَnoun

1.
foster brotherboth
Your brother through breastfeeding.

الرُّضَّعُnoun

1.
young beesclassical
The young of bees.

مُرْضِعٌadjective

1.
nursing motherboth
A woman who has a child she is nursing.

مُرْضِعَةٌadjective

1.
nursingboth
Describing a woman as nursing her child.

رَاضَعَverb

1.
to give to nurseclassical
To hand over one's son to a wet nurse.

ارْتَضَعَتْverb

1.
to drink its own milkclassical
A female goat drinking the milk of its own udder.

اسْتَرْضَعَverb

1.
to seek a nurseboth
To ask for a wet nurse.

مُرَاضَعَةٌnoun

1.
simultaneous nursingclassical
When a child nurses from its mother while she is pregnant, or when two children nurse at the same time.

الرِّضَاعُnoun

1.
simultaneous nursingclassical
When a child nurses from its mother while she is pregnant, or when two children nurse at the same time.

Parallel reading

رضع أمه، كسمع وضرب، رضعا، ويحرك، ورضاعا ورضاعة، ويكسران

He suckled his mother, like (in the pattern of) samia' and daraba, with the masdar raḍ'an, and with haraka (vowelization), and riḍā'an and riḍā'atan, and they are both broken (kasr).

فهو راضع، ج: كركع

And he is a suckler, its plural is rukka'.

ورضع ككتف، ج: كعنق: امتص ثديها

And raḍa'a (as in katifa) with its plural 'unq: he sucked her breast.

والرضوعة: الشاة ترضع

And ar-raḍū'ah: the ewe that nurses.

والراضعتان: ثنيتا الصبي، ج: رواضع

And ar-rāḍi'atān: the two front teeth of a child, its plural is rawādi'.

ورضع ككرم ومنع، رضاعة، فهو راضع ورضيع

And raḍu'a (as in karuma and mana'a), riḍā'ah, so he is rāḍi' and raḍī'.

ورضاع، كشداد من رضع، كركع وكفار: لؤم

And riḍā', like shiddād, from raḍa'a, like rukka' and kuffār: meanness.

والاسم: الرضع محركة

And the noun is: ar-ruḍḍa', with haraka (vowelization).

أو الراضع: اللئيم الذي رضع اللؤم من ثدي أمه

Or ar-rāḍi': the ignoble one who suckled baseness from his mother's breast.

ومن يأكل الخلالة من بين أسنانه لئلا يفوته شيء

And one who picks food from between his teeth so that nothing escapes him.

ومن يرضع الناس، أي: يسألهم

And one who 'suckles' people, meaning: he asks them.

وقولهم لئيم راضع: أصله أن رجلا كان يرضع إبله، لئلا يسمع صوت حلبه فيطلب منه

And their saying 'ignoble rāḍiʿ': its origin is that a man used to 'suckle' his camels, so that the sound of milking would not be heard and they would ask him for it.

والرضاعة، كسحابة: الدبور، أو ريح بينها وبين الجنوب

And ar-raḍā'ah, like sahābah: the wasp, or a wind between it and the south.

والرضع، بالكسر: شجر ترعاه الإبل

And ar-riḍ'u, with kasr (vowelization): shrubs that camels graze on.

ورضيعك: أخوك من الرضاعة

And your raḍī': your brother from breastfeeding.

والرضع، محركة: صغار النحل، كالرصع

And ar-ruḍḍa', with haraka (vowelization): young bees, like ar-ruṣṣa'.

وأرضعت المرأة فهي مرضع: لها ولد ترضعه

And the woman gave birth (arḍa'at) and she is murḍi': she has a child she is nursing.

فإن وصفتها بإرضاع الولد قلت: مرضعة

If you describe her as nursing the child, you say: marḍi'ah.

وراضع ابنه: دفعه إلى الظئر

And he gave his son to nurse (rāḍa'a): he handed him over to the wet nurse.

وارتضعت العنز: شربت لبن نفسها

And the goat drank its own milk (irtaḍa'at): it drank the milk of its own udder.

واسترضع: طلب مرضعة

And he sought a nurse (istarḍa'a): he asked for a wet nurse.

والمراضعة: أن يرضع الطفل أمه وفي بطنها ولد، وأن يرضع معه آخر، كالرضاع

And al-mirāḍa'ah: that the child nurses its mother while she has a child in her womb, and that another nurses with him, like ar-riḍā'.