Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

استرجع

Root: رجع

Form: 10

Full Definition

استرجعX , and استرجع مِنْهُ الشَّىْءَ: see رَجَعَ فِى هِبَتِهِ, and the sentence next following it.
2 طَعَامٌ يُسْتَرْجَعُ عَنْهُ Food, both of beasts and of men, from which profit, or advantage, [or a good return (رِجْعَة),] is obtained; which is found to be wholesome, or approved in its result; and from eating which one becomes fat.

def.2 استرجع الحَمَامُ: see 2, near the end of the paragraph.
2 استرجع also signifies He said, on the occasion of an affliction, or a misfortune, [using the words of the Kur ii. 151,] إِنَّا لِلّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ, meaning Verily to God we belong as his property and his servants, so that He may do with us what He pleaseth, and verily unto Him we return in the ultimate state of existence, and He will recompense us; as also رجّع , Verbal.Noun تَرْجِيعٌ; and .


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