rūāʾ

comeliness

رُواء

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Noun

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ر و ي

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • رَوِىَ مِنَ المَآءِ Form I He was satisfied, or he satisfied himself, with drinking of water
    , (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and اللَّبَنِ, (M, K,) aor. يَرْوَى, (T, S, Msb, K,) inf. n. رِىٌّ (T, S, M, Mgh, * K) and رَىٌّ, (S, K,) or the former is a simple subst. and the latter is the inf. n., (Msb,) or the latter is an inf. n. and also a simple subst., (M, K,) and رِوًى, (S, M, K,) the last erroneously written, in [some of] the copies of the K, رَوَى, as though it were a pret. verb [like رَوِىَ]; (TA;) and ↓ ارتوى and ↓ تروّى; (S, M, Msb, K;) all signify the same; (T, S, M, * Msb, K;) [or the last probably has an intensive meaning;] He was satisfied, or he satisfied himself, with drinking of water [and of milk]; he drank thereof enough to quench, or satisfy, his thirst; contr. of عَطِشَ. (Mgh in explanation of the first.) ― -b2- And رَوِىَ النَّبَاتُ, (M,) or الشَّجَرُ, (K,) مِنَ المَآءِ; (TA;) and ↓ تروّى; (M, K;) [The plant, or herbage, or the trees, had plentiful irrigation: or] i. q. تَنَعَّمَ [i. e., became flourishing and fresh, luxuriant, juicy, succulent, or sappy]; (M, K;) or became bright and fresh, by reason of plentiful irrigation. (TK.) ― -b3- رَوِىَ and ↓ ارتوى and ↓ تروّى are also used metaphorically, as meaning (tropical:) He was, or became, in a good state or condition; and in the enjoyment of much ease, pleasantness, softness, or delicacy, of life. (Har p. 100.) ― -b4- شَبِعْتُ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ وَ رَوِيتُ is likewise metaphorical, meaning (tropical:) I have become, or I became, disgusted [or satiated to loathing] with this thing, or affair. (S * and TA in art. شبع.) ― -b5- See also a verse cited voce إِلَى, (p. 85,) in which يَرْوَى is made trans. by means of that particle in the place of مِنْ. -A2- رَوَى عَلَى أَهْلِهِ, (T, S, M, K,) and لِأَهْلِهِ, (S, M, K,) aor. يَرْوِى, inf. n. رَيَّةٌ, or رِيَّةٌ, (accord. to different copies of the T, [the former app. indicated to be the right by what is said in the next sentence,]) or رَىٌّ, (M, [probably also correct,]) He brought water to his family: (S, M, K:) [but in the T it is implied that the meaning is like that of the phrase here following:] رَوَى القَوْمَ, (ISk, T, S, K,) aor. as above, (ISk, T, S,) inf. n. ريّة, (so in the TA,) He drew water for the people, or party. (ISk, T, S, K.) You say, مِنْ أَيْنَ رَيَّتُكُمْ, with fet-h to the ر, (S,) or رِيَّتُكُمْ, (so in the T,) meaning Whence is your providing of yourselves with water? (المَآءَ ↓ مِنْ أَيْنَ تَرْتَوُونَ: T, immediately after the latter of the foregoing phrases; and S, immediately after the former of them:) so says ISk. (T.) And رَوَى عَلَى اليَعِيرِ He drew water upon the camel. (M. [See سَانِيَةٌ.]) ― -b2- And رَوَى المَآءَ, aor. يَرْوِى, [inf. n., app., رِوَايَةٌ,] He (a camel) bore, carried, or conveyed, water. (Msb, TA.) ― -b3- Hence, (Msb, TA,) رَوَى الحَدِيثَ, (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and الشِّعْرَ, (T, S, M, Mgh,) عَنْهُ, (MA,) aor. يَرْوِى, (T,) inf. n. رِوَايَةٌ; (T, S, M, Mgh, K;) and ↓ تروّاهُ; (M, K;) both signify the same; (K;) He bore in his memory, knowing by heart, (حَمَلَ,) and transmitted [orally], related, recited, or rehearsed, the tradition, narrative, or story, (Msb, TA,) and the poetry, (TA,) [as learned, or heard, or received,] from him; (MA;) [he related, recited, or rehearsed, the tradition, &c., and the poetry, by heart from him:] you say to a man, أَنْشِدِ القَصِيدَةَ [ “ Recite thou the ode ”]; but you do not say, اِرْوِهَا unless you mean thereby Relate thou it by heart. (S, TA.) [One says also, رُوِىَ عَنْهُ, meaning It has been related as heard, or received, from him. And رُوِىَ كَذَا, and يُرْوَى كَذَا, meaning It has been related, and it is related, (otherwise, i. e.) thus; with the substitution of such a word &c.: and often meaning it has been read, and it is read, &c. And فِى رِوَايَةٍ كَذَا, meaning According to one relation, or way of relation or relating, thus: and often meaning according to one reading, thus.] -A3- رَوَى الحَبْلَ, (M, K,) [aor. يَرْوِى,] inf. n. رَىٌّ, (M,) He twisted the rope: (M, K:) or he twisted the rope well, or thoroughly, or soundly. (M.) ― -b2- رَوَى عَلَى الرَّجُلِ, (S, M, TA,) in the copies of the K, erroneously, الرَّحْلِ, (TA,) He bound the man (S, M, K, * TA) with the rope called رِوَآء (M, TA) upon the back of the camel, (S, K, *) lest he should fall (S, M, K, * TA) from the camel (M) in consequence of his being overcome by sleep. (S, M, * TA.) And رَوَيْتُ عَلَى الرَّاوِيَةِ, aor. أَرْوِى, inf. n. رَىٌّ, I bound the رِوَآء upon the leathern water-bag, or pair of leathern water-bags, called راوية. (T.) You say, رَوَى عَلَيْهِ, inf. n. رَىٌّ; and ↓ اروى; He bound him, or it, with the rope [called رِوَآء, as is implied in the M]. (M, * TA.) And الرِّوَآءَ عَلَى البَعِيرِ ↓ اروى [He bound the رواء upon the camel]; like رَوَاهُ. (TA.) And ↓ رواى He bound a load with the رِوَآء. (TA.)
  • روّى Form II The day of providing oneself with water
    , inf. n. تَرْوِيَةٌ: see 4, in two places: ― -b2- and 5. [Hence,] يَوْمُ التَّرْوِيَةِ [The day of providing oneself with water;] the eighth day of Dhu-l-Hijjeh; (T, Msb;) the day before that of 'Arafeh: (M:) so called because they (the pilgrims, T) used to provide themselves (يَتَزَوَّدُونَ, T, M, or ↓ يَتَرَوَّوْنَ, Msb, and so in a copy of the T, or ↓ يَرْتَوُونَ, S, K) on that day with water (T, S, M, * Msb, K) for the aftertime, (S, Msb, K,) and to rise and go, or when rising to go, to Minè, where is no water, [or, accord. to the Msb, where was little water,] therefore they provided themselves fully with water, or therefore they provided themselves with water from Mekkeh for the alighting and abiding at Minè: (T, accord. to two different copies:) or [it means the day of consideration, or thought; (from another signification of the verb, as will be seen from what follows;) and is so called] because Abraham was considering, or thinking upon, his dream (وَ يَتَفَكَّرُ فِى رُوأْيَاهُ ↓ كَانَ يَتَرَوَّى) [on that day], and on the ninth he knew [that his dream was from God], and on the tenth he desired to act [according to his dream] (اِسْتَعْمَلَ). (K. [And in a similar manner it is explained in the Ksh and by Bd in xxxvii. 101. See also 2 in art. روأ]) ― -b3- روّى رَأْسَهُ بِالدُّهْنِ, and الثَّرِيدَ بِالدَّسَمِ, (T, TA,) He moistened [his head, app. much, or saturated it, i. e. its hair, with oil, or grease, and the broken, or crumbled, bread with grease, or gravy]. (TA.) -A2- روّاهُ الشِّعْرَ, (T, S, M, Mgh, K,) and الحَدِيثَ, (M, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. as above; (S;) and إِيَّاهُ ↓ ارواهُ; (S, K;) He made him to relate by heart the poetry, (S, M, * Mgh, * K, * TA,) and the tradition, narrative, or story; (M, Mgh, TA;) he made him to bear in his memory, knowing by heart, and to transmit, relate, recite, or rehearse, (Msb, TA,) the poetry, (TA,) and the tradition, narrative, or story; (Msb, TA;) [or he taught him to do so; i. e.] he related to him by heart (رَوَى لَهُ) the poetry, (T, TA,) and the tradition, narrative, or story, (TA,) until he retained it in his memory, for the purpose of relating it by heart [as learned, or heard, or received,] from him. (T, TA. *) And رُوِّينَا الحَدِيثَ [We had the tradition, narrative, or story, related to us by heart; and in like manner, الشِّعْرَ the poetry]. (Msb, TA.) -A3- رَوَّيْتُ فِى الأَمْرِ, (S, K, [though Freytag represents the verb as being in the K without teshdeed, and Golius explains the verb nearly in the same manner with and without teshdeed,]) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He looked into the thing, or affair, or case; inspected it; examined it; considered it; or thought upon it; (S, M, K, TA;) deliberately, or leisurely; without haste; a dial. var. of رَوَّأْتُ [q. v.]: (M, TA:) [and فِيهِ ↓ تَرَوَّيْتُ app. signifies the same:] see يَتَرَوَّى in the former half of this paragraph, in an explanation of يَوْمُ التَّرْوِيَةِ.
  • ارواهُ Form IV He satisfied him, or made him to be satisfied, with drinking of water
    (M, MA, Msb, K) مِنَ المَآءِ (MA) [and من اللَّبَنِ], inf. n. إِرْوَآءٌ; (KL, and Har p. 67;) and ↓ روّاهُ (MA, Msb) مِنْهُ, (MA,) inf. n. تَرْوِيَةٌ; (KL;) He satisfied him, or made him to be satisfied, with drinking of water [and of milk]; he satisfied, or quenched, his (another's) thirst, by a drink, or draught, of water [and of milk]; (M, * MA, Msb, * K, * KL; *) he did away with his thirst [thereby]. (Har ubi suprà.) One says of a she-camel abounding in milk, هِىَ تُرْوِى الصَّبِىَّ [She satisfies the thirst of the young child]: because he sleeps in the beginning of the night, and they desire that her flow of milk may be early, before his sleeping. (M, TA.) [And in like manner, ارواهُ is said of water, and of milk, &c., meaning It satisfied his thirst.] ― -b2- [Hence, اروى and ↓ روّى signify also He watered, or irrigated, plentifully a plant, or herbage, or a tree; or rendered it flourishing and fresh, luxuriant, succulent, or sappy, by plentiful irrigation: see 1, second sentence.] -A2- See also 2, in the middle of the paragraph. -A3- And see 1, last three sentences.
  • تروّى Form V They provided themselves with water
    : see 1, first three sentences. ― -b2- You say also, تَرَوَّوْا and ↓ رَوَّوْا, meaning They provided themselves with water. (M.) And كَانُو يَتَرَوَّوْنَ مِنَ المَآءِ; (Msb, and so in a copy of the T; see 2, second sentence;) or من المآء ↓ يَرْتَوُونَ; (S and K; see again 2, second sentence;) [They used to provide themselves with water:] and المَآء ↓ مِنْ أَيْنَ تَرْتَوُونَ [Whence do ye provide for yourselves water?]. (T and S; see 1, in the middle of the paragraph.) ― -b3- And تَرَوَّتِ اللُّقْمَةُ بِالسَّمْنِ [The morsel was imbued, or soaked, with clarified butter]. (En-Nadr, TA in art. ريغ.) -A2- تروّى الحَدِيثَ, and الشِّعْرَ: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. -A3- تَرَوَّتْ مَفَاصِلُهُ: see 8. -A4- تروّى فِيهِ: see 2, in two places.
  • ارتوى Form VIII The palm-tree, having been planted in a hollow dug for the purpose, was watered at its root
    : see 1, first and third sentences: ― -b2- and see also 5, in two places. ― -b3- ارتوت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree, having been planted in a hollow dug for the purpose, was watered at its root. (Lth, T.) -A2- It (a rope) was twisted: (M, K:) or was twisted well, or thoroughly, or soundly: (M:) or was thick in its strands: (S:) or was composed of many strands, and thick, and very compact. (Lth, T.) ― -b2- And ارتوت مَفَاصِلُهُ His joints (those of a beast, T, or those of a man, S) were, or became, well-proportioned and thick; (T, S, K;) and so ↓ تروّت. (M, K.)
  • رَوٌّ Open entry
    : see رَوَآءٌ.
  • رُىٌّ Open entry
    : see what next follows: -A2- and see also art. رى.
  • رِىٌّ state of being satisfied with drinking
    , said by Esh-Shámee, in his “Seereh [of the Prophet],” to be also with damm [i. e. ↓ رُىٌّ, which is anomalous, like رُيَّا, for رُوأْيَا], (MF, TA,) is an inf. n. of رَوِىَ: (T, S, M, Mgh, * K:) and also (M, K) a simple subst. from that verb [meaning The state of being satisfied with drinking of water and of milk; the state in which one is satisfied with drinking or drink; the state of having drunk enough to quench, or satisfy, the thirst]. (M, Msb, K.) One says, فُلَانٌ فِى رِىٍّ وَ مَشْبَعٍ [Such a one is in a state in which he is satisfied with drink and food]. (T, A, TA, all in art. نظر.) ― -b2- [Also, as is indicated in the K &c., in relation to plants or herbage, or to trees, The state of having plentiful irrigation; or of being flourishing and fresh, luxuriant, juicy, succulent, or sappy, by reason of plentiful irrigation.] -A2- عَيْنٌ رِبَّةٌ A source abounding with water. (S.) -A3- See also art. رى.
  • رِوًى Dates when they ripen
    : see رَوَآءٌ. ― -b2- رُطَبٌ رِوًى Dates when they ripen [after they have been cut off,] not upon their palm-trees; as also ↓ مُرْوٍ. (TA.)
  • رُويَا Open entry
    : see رُوأْيَا, in art. رأى.
  • رَوَآءٌ Sweet
    and ↓ رِوًى (T, S, M, K [in this last improperly said to be like إِلَى, which is without tenween,]) and ↓ رَوِىٌّ (M, K) Sweet water: (S:) or water that causes him who comes to it to return with his thirst satisfied; (T, S; *) applied only to water that has a continual increase, and does not become exhausted, nor cease: (T:) or abundant water, that satisfies the thirst. (M, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الرَّوَآءُ is a name of The well of Zemzem. (K, TA.) -A2- And رواء, (so in the TA, as from the K, and as mentioned by Az on the authority of IAar, [but I have looked for it in vain in two copies of the T, app. رَوَآءٌ, or perhaps ↓ رِوَآءٌ, like the Pers. رِوَا, for one of these two may be from the other,] or ↓ رَوٌّ, (so accord. to my MS. copy of the K and accord. to the TK, [but this I think very dubious, and still more strange is the reading in the CK, which is رِو,]) Abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life. (K.)
  • رُوَآءٌ A pleasing, or goodly, aspect; or beauty of aspect
    [for رُوأَآءٌ, (see رِيأْىٌ, in art. رأى,) or of the measure فُعَالٌ from الرِّىُّ, (see Har p. 24,)] i. q. مَنْظَرٌ [as meaning A pleasing, or goodly, aspect; or beauty of aspect]: so in the phrase رَجُلٌ لَهُ رُوَآءٌ [A man having a pleasing, or goodly, aspect]. (S.)

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