رضع

Root entry · 28 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of suckling or breastfeeding, both literally for infants and metaphorically for acquiring traits or sustenance. It extends to concepts of kinship through nursing, and also encompasses meanings related to meanness, baseness, and even specific types of wind or plants.

Derived headwords

رَضَعَverb

1.
to suckleboth
The child suckled its mother's breast.
2.
to be mean/baseclassical
He became mean or base, as if imprinted with it.

رَضَعَ الصبي أمه — The boy suckled his mother.

رَضَعَ الرجل بالضم — The man became mean.

رِضَاعٌnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or breastfeeding.
2.
meannessclassical
A state of meanness or baseness.

أن يتم الرضاعة — to complete the suckling period.

رَضَاعَةٌnoun

1.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or breastfeeding.
2.
meannessclassical
A state of meanness or baseness.

أن يتم الرضاعة — to complete the suckling period.

استعذ بالله من الرضاعة — Seek refuge in God from meanness.

رِضَاعَةٌnoun

1.
meannessclassical
A state of meanness or baseness.

ما بي من لؤم ولا رضاعة — I have no meanness or baseness.

رَضَعٌnoun

1.
meannessclassical
A state of meanness or baseness.
2.
sucklingboth
The act of suckling or breastfeeding.

اليوم يوم الرضع — Today is the day of the mean ones.

رَاضِعٌadjective

1.
sucklingboth
A child that is suckling.
2.
meanclassical
A mean or base person.
3.
having milkclassical
A female animal that has milk or is about to give milk.

فهو راضع — He is suckling.

قوم رضع — Mean people.

رُضَّعٌnoun

1.
sucklingsboth
Plural of a suckling child.
2.
mean peopleclassical
Plural of a mean or base person.

ج: رضع — Plural: sucklings.

رُضَّعٌnoun

1.
mean peopleclassical
Plural of a mean or base person.

ج: رضع — Plural: mean people.

رَضُعٌnoun

1.
meannessclassical
A state of meanness or baseness.

وهو رضع — He is mean.

رُضَّعٌnoun

1.
mean peopleclassical
Plural of a mean or base person.

ج: رضع — Plural: mean people.

رَضُعَةٌnoun

1.
sucklingboth
A single act of suckling.
2.
small beesclassical
Young bees.

واحدتها رضعة — Its singular is 'rid'ah'.

إِرْضَاعٌnoun

1.
breastfeedingboth
The act of causing a child to suckle.

الاسم من الإرضاع — The noun from 'to breastfeed'.

مُرْضِعٌadjective

1.
breastfeedingboth
A woman who is breastfeeding or has a child to breastfeed.
2.
having a sucklingclassical
A female animal with a suckling young.

امرأة مرضع — A breastfeeding woman.

كل مرضع — Every woman with a suckling.

مُرْضِعَةٌadjective

1.
breastfeedingboth
A woman who is breastfeeding.

تذهل كل مرضعة عما أرضعت — Every nursing mother will be bewildered by what she has nursed.

رَاضَعَverb

1.
to give to a wet nurseboth
To entrust one's child to a wet nurse.

راضع فلان ابنه — So-and-so gave his son to a wet nurse.

ارْتَضَعَverb

1.
to suckle oneselfclassical
An animal suckling its own milk.

ارتضعت العنز — The goat suckled itself.

اسْتَرْضَعَverb

1.
to seek a wet nurseboth
To look for a woman to breastfeed one's child.

استرضع: طلب مرضعة — To seek a wet nurse.

وإن أردتم أن تسترضعوا أولادكم — And if you wish to seek wet nurses for your children.

مُسْتَرْضَعٌadjective

1.
one seeking a wet nurseboth
A child for whom a wet nurse is sought.

فلان المسترضع في بني تميم — So-and-so, the one seeking a wet nurse among Banu Tamim.

مُرَاضِعٌnoun

1.
young beesclassical
Young bees.
2.
sucklingsclassical
Children who are suckling together.

مراضيع مثل السعالي — Young ones like demons.

مراضيع صهب الريش — Young ones with reddish feathers.

تَرَاضَعَاverb

1.
to suckle each otherclassical
When two individuals suckle from the same source or at the same time.

تراضعا: رضع كل منهما مع الآخر — They suckled each other: each one suckled with the other.

رَضِيعٌnoun

1.
sucklingboth
A child or young animal that is suckling.
2.
foster brotherboth
A sibling through breastfeeding.

هذا رضيعك — This is your suckling.

رضيعي لبان ثدي أم تقاسما — My suckling, sharing the milk of a mother's breast.

رُضَّعَاءٌnoun

1.
sucklingsboth
Plural of a suckling child or young animal.

والجمع رضعاء — And the plural is 'rudda'a'.

مَرَاضِعٌnoun

1.
wet nursesboth
Plural of a wet nurse.

وحرمنا عليه المراضع — And We forbade him the nursing women.

مَرَاضِيعٌnoun

1.
young beesclassical
Young bees.

مراضيع صهب الريش — Young ones with reddish feathers.

الرَّاضِعُadjective

1.
the mean oneclassical
The mean or base person.
2.
the one with milkclassical
A female animal with milk.

الراضع: اللئيم الذي رضع اللؤم من ثدي أمه — The mean one: the base person who suckled baseness from his mother's breast.

الرَّوَاضِعُnoun

1.
front teethclassical
The two front upper and lower teeth of a child.
2.
fallen teethclassical
Teeth that have grown and then fallen out during infancy.

الراضعتان: ثنيتا الصبي المتقدمتان — The two front teeth: the two foremost teeth of a child.

سقطت رواضعه — His front teeth fell out.

الرَّضْعُnoun

1.
meannessclassical
Meanness or baseness.
2.
treesclassical
A type of tree that camels graze on.

الرضع: شجر ترعاه الإبل — Al-rud'u: trees that camels graze on.

الرَّضَاعَةُnoun

1.
meannessclassical
Meanness or baseness.
2.
east windclassical
A wind between the east and the south, so called because it diminishes the milk of lactating animals.

استعذ بالله من الرضاعة — Seek refuge in God from meanness.

Parallel reading

رضع الصبي أمه

The boy suckled his mother.

وذموا لنا الدنيا وهم يرضعونها ... أفاويق حتى ما يدر لها ثعل

And they blamed us for the world while they suckled it... in gulps until a fox could not milk it.

يذمون دنياهم، وهم يرضعونها ... أفاويق حتى ما يدر لها ثعل

They blame their world, while they suckle it... in gulps until a fox could not milk it.

أن يتم الرضاعة

To complete the suckling period.

فهو راضع

He is suckling.

فإنما الرضاعة من المجاعة

For suckling is from hunger.

الرضاعة بالفتح والكسر: الاسم من الإرضاع، فأما من الرضاعة: اللؤم فالفتح فقط.

Al-ridā'ah (with fatha and kasra): the noun from breastfeeding; but from al-ridā'ah (with fatha): meanness, only with fatha.

أن الرضاع الذي يحرم النكاح إنما هو في الصغر عند جوع الطفل، فأما في حال الكبر فلا.

The suckling that prohibits marriage is only in infancy during the child's hunger; as for in adulthood, it is not.

الرضوعة التي ترضع ولدها

The nursing mother who nurses her child.

والراضعتان: ثنيتا الصبي المتقدمتان اللتان يشرب عليهما اللبن.

And al-rādi'atān: the two foremost teeth of a child through which it drinks milk.

سقطت رواضعه

His front teeth fell out.

رضع الرجل، ككرم

The man became mean, like 'karuma'.

واليوم يوم الرضع

And today is the day of the mean ones.

أسلمها الرضاع، وتركوا المصاع.

The mean ones abandoned it, and left the sword-fighting.

الراضع: اللئيم الذي رضع اللؤم من ثدي أمه، يريد أنه ولد في اللؤم.

The mean one: the base person who suckled baseness from his mother's breast, meaning he was born into baseness.

وإذا أراد الشرب رضع حلوبته.

And if he wanted to drink, he would suckle his milker.

اللئيم الراضع: من يرضع الناس، أي يسألهم.

The mean one who suckles: one who asks people for things, meaning he begs from them.

ويرضع من لاقى وإن ير مقعدا ... يقود بأعمى فالفرزدق سائله

And he begs from whomever he meets, even if he sees a cripple... leading a blind man, so Al-Farazdaq asks him.

لئيم راضع، أصله زعموا أن رجلا كان يرضع إبله ولا يحتلبها لئلا يسمع صوت حلبه فيطلب منه.

A mean suckler, its origin is said to be that a man used to suckle his camels and not milk them, so as not to be heard milking and thus be asked for some.

لأنها إذا هبت على اللقاح رضعت ألبانها، أي قلت

Because when it blows upon the pregnant animals, it diminishes their milk, meaning it reduces it.

هذا رضيعك، أي أخوك من الرضاعة

This is your suckling, meaning your brother by breastfeeding.

رضيعي لبان ثدي أم تقاسما ... بأسحم داج عوض لا نتفرق

My suckling, sharing the milk of a mother's breast... in a dark, cloudy night, we shall not separate.

واحدتها رضعة كالرصع، بالصاد المهملة تصحيف.

Its singular is 'rid'ah' like 'ris'ah', with the unpointed 's' it is a misspelling.

لها ولد ترضعه

She has a child whom she nurses.

فمثلك حبلى قد طرقت ومرضع ... فألهيتها عن ذي تمائم محول

So like you, a pregnant woman I approached, and a nursing mother... I distracted her from a child with amulets, weakened.

يوم تذهل كل مرضعة عما أرضعت

The Day when every nursing mother shall turn away from her suckling.

نعمت المرضعة، وبئست الفاطمة

The nursing mother is good, and the weaned child is bad.

المرضعة: التي ترضع وإن لم يكن لها ولد، أو كان لها ولد، والمرضع: التي ليس معها ولد وقد يكون معها ولد.

Al-murdi'ah: she who nurses even if she has no child, or had a child; and al-murdi': she who has no child with her, though she may have a child.

تذهل كل مرضعة

Every nursing mother will be bewildered.

امرأة مرضع: ذات رضيع

A nursing woman: one with a suckling.

إن تميما لم يراضع مسبعا ... ولم تلده أمه مقنعا

Indeed, Tamim did not give (their children) to a wet nurse, nor was their mother's child born veiled.

كالعنز تعطف روقيها فترتضع

Like a goat that bends its horn and suckles itself.

وإن أردتم أن تسترضعوا أولادكم فلا جناح عليكم

And if you wish to seek wet nurses for your children, then there is no blame upon you.

استرضعت المرأة ولدي

The woman sought a wet nurse for my child.

رب غلام يراضع.

Perhaps a boy is given to a wet nurse.

أن يرضع الطفل أمه وفي بطنها ولد

That the child nurses its mother while there is another child in her womb.

ويقال لذلك الولد الذي في بطنها: مراضع

And that child in her womb is called: marādi'.

أن يرضع معه آخر، كالرضاع، بالكسر

That another nurses with him, like al-ridā' (with kasra).

راضعه مراضعة ورضاعا

He nursed her with nursing and suckling.

ورضع الصبي ثدي أمه كمنع

And the boy suckled his mother's breast, like 'mana'a'.

والراضع: ذات الدر واللبن، على النسب.

And al-rādi': possessing milk, by attribution.

تراضعا: رضع كل منهما مع الآخر.

They suckled each other: each of them suckled with the other.

والرضيع: المراضع، والجمع رضعاء.

And al-radī': the sucklings, and the plural is 'rudda'a'.

وحرمنا عليه المراضع.

And We forbade him the nursing women.

مراضيع مثل السعالي

Young ones like demons.

مراضيع صهب الريش زغب رقابها

Young ones with reddish feathers, downy on their necks.

وهو يرضع الدنيا ويذمها

He suckles the world and blames it.

وبينهما رضاع الكأس

And between them is the suckling of the cup.