ر س ح
Nouns and adjectives
Lane's Lexicon
Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 5 entries-
رَسحَ Form I He had little flesh, or was scant of flesh, in his posteriors and thighs: or he had small buttocks, sticking together
, aor. , inf. n. رَسَحٌ, (L, Msb,) He had little flesh, or was scant of flesh, in his posteriors and thighs: or he had small buttocks, sticking together: (L:) or he had little flesh in his thighs. (Msb.) -
ارسح Form IV It rendered
It rendered a person scant of flesh in the posteriors (S, A) and thighs. (S.) -
رَسَحٌ Paucity of flesh in the posteriors
Paucity of flesh in the posteriors (S, A, L, K) and thighs: (S, L, K:) or smallness of the buttocks, and their sticking together: (L:) or paucity of flesh in the thighs. (Msb.) -
رَسِحٌ Having little flesh in his thighs
Having little flesh in his thighs. (Msb.) [See also what follows.] -
أَرْسَحُ having little flesh in his posteriors
A man (S, L) having little flesh in his posteriors (S, A, L) and thighs: (S, L:) or having small buttocks, sticking together: (L:) fem. رَسْحَآءُ; applied to a woman: (S, A, L:) pl. رُسْحٌ. (S, K.) [See also رَسِحٌ.] الأَرْسَحُ means The wolf: (TA:) [for] every wolf is [termed] أَرْسَح because of the lightness [of the flesh] of his haunches: (S, A, * K:) and so is the سِمْع [a mongrel beast, the offspring of a wolf begotten from the hyena]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, the fem., A foul, an ugly, or an unseemly, woman: (K, TA:) though disapproved by MF. (TA.)
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