أَرْيَحِىٌّ

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أَرْيَحِىٌّ Large, or liberal, in disposition; characterized by alacrity, cheerfulness, briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, disposing him to promptness in acts of liberality, kindness, or beneficence: the former ى is said by AAF to be substituted for و: (TA. Mentioned in the L in the present art. and in art. ريح.) The Arabs have many epithets like this, [as أَجْوَلِىٌّ and أَحْوَذِىٌّ and أَحْوَزِىٌّ and أَلْمَعِىٌّ,] of the meansure أَفْعَلِىٌّ, as though they were rel. ns.
2 It is also an epithet applied to a sword, meaning That shakes, as though brisk, or prompt, to strike: or meaning of Aryah, a town of Syria, (TA and Ham, [in the latter of which the phrase سُيُوفَ أَرْيَحَ is cited in confirmation from a poem of Sakhr el-Ghei,]) or a tribe of El-Yemen.

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