رفث

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

The root 'رفث' primarily concerns sexual intercourse and related intimate acts between spouses. It can also extend to vulgar speech, particularly when directed towards women, and encompasses a broader range of desires a man might have for a woman.

Derived headwords

الرَّفَثُ مُحَرَّكَةًnoun

1.
sexual intercourseboth
Sexual intercourse between a man and his wife.
2.
intimate actsboth
Acts between a man and his wife, such as kissing and flirting, that are related to or occur during sexual intercourse.
3.
vulgar speechboth
Obscene or vulgar language.

الرَّفُوثُnoun

1.
vulgar speechclassical
Vulgar or obscene speech, similar to 'ar-rafath'.

رَفَثَverb

1.
to have sexual intercourseboth
To engage in sexual intercourse.
2.
to speak vulgarlyboth
To speak obscenely or vulgarly, especially about women.

يَرْفُثُverb

1.
to have sexual intercourseboth
Present tense of engaging in sexual intercourse.
2.
to speak vulgarlyboth
Present tense of speaking obscenely or vulgarly.

رَفَثًاnoun

1.
sexual intercourseboth
The act of sexual intercourse (masdar).
2.
vulgar speechboth
The act of speaking vulgarly (masdar).

أَرْفَثَverb

1.
to speak vulgarlyclassical
To speak excessively vulgarly or obscenely concerning women.

Parallel reading

الرفث محركة: الجماع وغيره، مما يكون بين الرجل وامرأته، من التقبيل والمغازلة ونحوهما، مما يكون في حالة الجماع.

Ar-rafath (vowelized: with harakat) means sexual intercourse and other things that occur between a man and his wife, such as kissing, flirting, and the like, which occur during the state of sexual intercourse.

وهو أيضا الفحش من القول كالرفوث بالضم.

And it also means obscenity in speech, like ar-rafuth (with dammah).

فقيل له: يا أبا العباس: أترفث وأنت محرم؟

So he was told: 'O Abu al-Abbas, do you engage in rafath while you are in the state of Ihram?'

فقال: إنما الرفث ما روجع به النساء.

He replied: 'Rafath is only that which is spoken to women.'

فلا رفث ولا فسوق ولا جدال في الحج

There shall be no 'rafath', nor 'fusuq', nor 'jidal' during the Hajj.

الرفث: هو التصريح بما يكنى عنه من ذكر النكاح.

Ar-rafath is the explicit mention of what is alluded to concerning the mention of marriage.

الرفث يكون في الفرجه بالجماع، وفي العينه بالغمزه للجماع، وفي اللسان المواعدة به.

Ar-rafath can be in the private part through intercourse, in the eye through winking for intercourse, and in the tongue through promising it.

الرفث: كلمة جامعة لكل ما يريده الرجل من المرأة.

Ar-rafath is a comprehensive word for everything a man desires from a woman.

لا جماع ولا كلمة من أسباب الجماع.

No intercourse and no word that leads to intercourse.

ورب أسرابه حجيج كظم عن اللغا ورفث التكلم.

And perhaps their herds are pilgrims who restrain themselves from idle talk and the vulgarity of speech.

وقد رفث الرجل بها، ومعها كنصر وضرب، يرفث ويرفث رفثا.

And the man has engaged in rafath with her, and with it (as a verb), like 'nasara' and 'daraba', he 'yarfuthu' and 'yarfathu' with the masdar 'rafathan'.

كله: أفحش في شأن النساء.

All of it: to speak obscenely concerning women.