ارتجل
Root: رجل
Form: 8
Full Definition
2 Said of a horse, He mixed the pace termed العَنَق with that termed الهَمْلَجَة, or the former pace with somewhat of the latter, and thus, he went those two paces alternately, somewhat of the former and somewhat of the latter.
def.2 He took a man by his رِجْل [i. e. leg, or foot].
2 ارتجل الشَّاةَ: see 1, in the middle of the paragraph.
3 ارتجل الرَّنْدَ [or الزَّنْدَةَ], and ارتجل alone in a similar sense: see 5, in two places.
def.3 [He extemporized a speech or verses; spoke it or them extemporaneously, impromptu, or without premeditation;] he began an oration (a خُطْبَة), and poetry, without his having prepared it beforehand; he spoke a speech without consideration or thought, or without his having prepared it; he recited it, or related it, standing, without forecast, consideration, thought, or meditation; so accord. to Er-Rághib [who seems to have held this to be the primary signification of the verb when relating to a speech or the like]; or without reiteration, and without pausing, halting, or hesitating. And ارتجل الشَّىْءَ [He did, performed, or produced, the thing without premeditation, or previous preparation]. (TA in art. خرع.) [And ارتجل ٱسْمًا He coined a name.]
2 ارتجل بِرَأْيِهِ He was, or became, alone, or independent of others, with none to take part or share or participate with him, in his opinion, without consulting any one respecting it, and kept constantly, or perseveringly, to it. [Hence,] أَمْرُكَ مَا ٱرْتَجَلْتَ Thine affair [to which thou shouldst keep] is that respecting which thou art alone [&c.] in thine opinion. And اِرْتَجِلْ مَا ٱرْتَجَلْتَ مِنَ الأَمْرِ is explained in the T as meaning اِرْكَبْ مَا رَكِبْتَ مِنْهُ [i. e. Undertake thou what thou hast undertaken of the affair: but it may rather signify keep thou to what thou hast undertaken of the affair; agreeably with what here follows]. One says also, اِرْتَجِلْ Keep thou to thine affair: in [some of] the copies of the K, erroneously, رَجَلَكَ.
def.4 He collected a detached number (قِطْعَة [or رِجْل]) of locusts, to roast, or fry, them.
def.5 He set up a مِرْجَل [q. v.], to cook food in it: or he cooked food in a مِرْجَل.
def.6 ارتجل النَّهَارُ: see 5.
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