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أَرْفَعُ

Root: رفع

Full Definition

أَرْفَعُ [Higher, or more elevated &c.: and highest, or most elevated &c.].
2 أَرْفَعُ لِلْحَدِيثِ More skilled in tracing up, or ascribing, or attributing, a tradition to its author; i. q. أَنَصُّ, q. v. (TA in art. نص.)
3 عَدَا عَدْوًا بَعْضُهُ أَرْفَعُ مِنْ بَعَضٍ [He ran with a running of which one part was quicker than another]; said of an ass.
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