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الرتل

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of orderly arrangement, beauty, and proportion, particularly in relation to teeth, speech, and water. It also extends to descriptions of certain insects and plants.

Derived headwords

رَتَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to be well-arrangedboth

    To be characterized by good arrangement and proportion.

رَتَلٌnoun
  1. 1.
    orderly arrangementboth

    The quality of being well-arranged, harmonious, and proportionate.

  2. 2.
    beauty of teethboth

    The beauty and regularity of teeth, often described as white and well-aligned.

  3. 3.
    abundance of waterboth

    The abundance and clarity of water.

  4. 4.
    eloquenceboth

    Beautiful and well-composed speech.

  5. 5.
    excellenceboth

    The finest or best of anything.

رَتْلٌnoun
  1. 1.
    well-arranged teethboth

    Teeth that are well-arranged, white, and abundant with water (saliva).

  2. 2.
    well-aligned teethboth

    Teeth that are well-aligned and intensely white.

مُرَتَّلٌadjective
  1. 1.
    well-arrangedboth

    Describing something that is well-arranged and proportionate.

  2. 2.
    beautifully articulatedboth

    Describing speech that is beautifully composed and articulated.

رَتَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    to arrange beautifullyboth

    To arrange something in a beautiful and orderly manner.

  2. 2.
    to articulate beautifullyboth

    To compose and articulate speech beautifully.

تَرَتَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    to speak slowlyboth

    To speak slowly and deliberately, often with beautiful articulation.

مَاءٌ رَتْلٌnoun
  1. 1.
    cold waterboth

    Water that is cold and refreshing.

الرُّتَيْلَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    type of insectboth

    A type of insect, often resembling a fly that hovers around lights.

  2. 2.
    various insectsboth

    Various kinds of insects, including black spotted ones and yellow fuzzy ones, whose stings are painful and cause swelling.

الرُّتَيْلَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    plantclassical

    A plant whose flower resembles that of the iris, and is beneficial for treating stings from snakes and scorpions.

رَاتِلَةadjective
  1. 1.
    shortclassical

    Describing someone or something as short.

أَرْتَلnoun
  1. 1.
    anusclassical

    The anus.

Parallel reading

الرتل، محركة: حسن تناسق الشيء
Al-ratl, with harakah: the beautiful arrangement of a thing.
وبياض الأسنان
And the whiteness of teeth.
وكثرة مائها
And the abundance of its water.
والحسن من الكلام
And the beauty of speech.
والطيب من كل شيء
And the excellence of everything.
كالرتل، ككتف فيهما
Like al-ratl, like katif in both.
والمفلج، أو الحسن التنضد، الشديد البياض، الكثير الماء من الثغور، كالرتل، ككتف.
And the gap-toothed, or the well-arranged, intensely white, abundant with water from the teeth, like al-ratl, like katif.
ورَتَّلَ الكلامَ تَرْتِيلاً: أحسن تأليفه.
And he articulated speech beautifully (rattala) with beautiful articulation (tartilan): he composed it well.
وترتَّل فيه: ترسل.
And he spoke slowly (tartala) in it: he spoke deliberately.
ومَاءٌ رَتْلٌ، ككتف، بين الرتل: بارد.
And water (maa'un) is ratlun, like katif, between al-ratl: cold.
والرتيلاء، ويقصر، من الهوام: أنواع، أشهرها شبه الذباب الذي يطير حول السراج، ومنها ما هي سوداء رقطاء، ومنها صفراء زغباء، ولسع جميعها مورم مؤلم.
And al-rutaylaa', and it can be shortened, from the crawling things: types, the most famous of which is like the fly that flies around the lamp, and among them are black spotted ones, and among them are yellow fuzzy ones, and the sting of all of them is swelling and painful.
والرتيلاء أيضا: نبات زهره كزهر السوسن، ينفع من نهشها ونهش العقرب.
And al-rutaylaa' also: a plant whose flower is like the iris flower, it is beneficial for the bite of it (the insect) and the sting of the scorpion.
والراتلة: القصير.
And al-ratilah: the short one.
والأرتل: الأرت.
And al-artal: the anus.