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رثى

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns lamentation, mourning, and expressing sorrow for the deceased, often through poetry. It also extends to feelings of pity and compassion, and in a less common usage, to recalling or remembering something.

Derived headwords

الرثيةnoun
  1. 1.
    pain in knees and jointsclassical

    A type of pain localized in the knees and joints.

رثيةnoun
  1. 1.
    lamentationboth

    A poem or speech expressing sorrow and grief for the deceased, often enumerating their virtues.

رثياتnoun
  1. 1.
    lamentationsboth

    The plural form of 'rathiyah', referring to multiple instances of lamentation or poems of mourning.

رثىverb
  1. 1.
    to lamentboth

    To mourn for the deceased, often by reciting poetry and recounting their good deeds.

  2. 2.
    to pityboth

    To feel compassion or pity for someone.

  3. 3.
    to recallclassical

    To remember or bring to mind a piece of information or a past event.

مرثيةnoun
  1. 1.
    the verbal noun of 'rathaytu'both

    the verbal noun of 'rathaytu'

رثوتهverb
  1. 1.
    to lament himboth

    A past tense verb form indicating the act of lamenting a specific male individual.

رثى لهverb
  1. 1.
    he felt pity for himboth

    he felt pity for him

رثأتverb
  1. 1.
    with hamza, contrary to the original formboth

    with hamza, contrary to the original form

رثاءةadjective
  1. 1.
    mournful womanboth

    An adjective describing a woman who is prone to lamenting or mourning.

رثايةadjective
  1. 1.
    mournful womanboth

    An adjective describing a woman who is prone to lamenting or mourning; a variant of 'rathā'ah'.

رثايةnoun
  1. 1.
    lamentationboth

    The act or instance of lamenting; a dirge or elegy.

أرثيverb
  1. 1.
    to recall itclassical

    A present tense verb form indicating the act of remembering or recalling something.

رثايةnoun
  1. 1.
    recallingclassical

    The act of remembering or recalling something, as in recalling a حديث (hadith).

Parallel reading

الرثية بالفتح: وجع في الركبتين والمفاصل.
Ar-rathiyah (with fatha): pain in the knees and joints.
ورثية تنهض بالتشدد
And a pain that arises with stiffness.
وللكبير رثيات أربع
And for an old person there are four pains.
الركبتان والنسا والأخدع
The two knees, the loins, and the neck vein.
ورثيت الميت مرثية ورثوته أيضا، إذا بكيته وعددت محاسنه، وكذلك إذا نظمت فيه شعرا.
And I lamented the deceased with an elegy, and I also mourned him, if I wept for him and enumerated his virtues, and likewise if I composed poetry about him.
ورثى له، أي رق له.
And he felt pity for him, meaning he had compassion for him.
قالت امرأة من العرب: " رثأت زوجي بأبيات " وهمزت.
A woman from the Arabs said: 'I lamented my husband with verses,' and she hamzated (pronounced the hamza).
قالوا: رثأت الميت، ولبأت بالحج، وحلات السويق تحلثة، وأنما هو من الحلاوة، إذا كانت تنوح نياحة.
They said: 'rathat al-mayyit' (she lamented the dead), and 'labbayt bil-hajj' (she responded to the pilgrimage), and 'hallat as-sawīq taḥluthah' (she prepared the gruel), and it is only from sweetness, if she was wailing a lament.
وامرأة رثاءة ورثاية.
And a woman who is rathā'ah (mournful) and rathāyah.
ومن لم يهمز أخرجه على أصله، ومن همز فلان الياء إذا وقعت بعد (*) الالف الساكنة همزت.
And whoever does not hamzate derives it from its origin, and whoever hamzates, so-and-so hamzates the 'ya' when it occurs after the silent alif.
وكذلك القول في سقاءة وسقاية وما أشبهها.
And likewise is the case with 'siqā'ah' and 'siqāyah' and what resembles them.
رثيت عنه حديثا أرثي رثاية، إذا ذكرته عنه.
I recalled a hadith from him, I recall it with 'rathāyah', if I remembered it from him.