رَابِعٌ
Root: ربع
Full Definition
2 The chief who used to take the fourth part of the spoil, in the Time of Ignorance.
3 هُوَ رَابِعُ أَرْبَعَةٍ He is [the fourth of four, or] one of four.
4 [رَابِعَ عَشَرَ and رَابِعَةَ عَشْرَةَ, the former masc. and the latter fem., meaning Fourteenth, are subject to the same rules as ثَالِثَ عَشَرَ and its fem., expl. in art. ثلث, q. v.]
5 إِبِلٌ رَوَابِعُ [Camels coming to water, or being watered, on the fourth day, counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first: pl. of رَابِعَةٌ]: from رَبَعَتِ الإِبِلُ, meaning وَرَدَتِ الرِّبْعَ. In like manner, also, رَوَابعُ is applied, metaphorically, to birds of the kind called قَطًا, as an epithet denoting their coming to water, by El- 'Ajjáj.
def.2 رَبِيعٌ رَابِعٌ A fruitful, or plentiful, ربيع [meaning the season so called].
2 One does not say يَوْمٌ رَابِعٌ like as one says يَوْمٌ قَائِظٌ &c., because there is no corresponding verb, like قَاظَ, &c., for such a verb would have no meaning of heat nor of cold.
def.3 هُوَ رَابِعٌ عَلَى حَالِهِ He is abiding, or continuing, in his state, or condition.
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