رَاوٍ
Root: روى
Full Definition
2 And [hence] it is used also in relation to poetry and to traditions or narratives or stories [as meaning A relater, reciter, or rehearser, by heart, of poetry, and of traditions, or narratives or stories, learned, or heard, or received, from another]: and in like manner رَاوِيَةٌ , but in an intensive sense [as meaning a large, or copious, relater or reciter or rehearser, &c.]; i. e. كَثِيرُ الرِّوَايَةِ; as in the phrase رَجُلٌ رَاوِيَةٌ لِلشِّعْرِ [a man who is a large, or copious, relater &c. of poetry]: the pl. of رَاوٍ is رُوَاةٌ.
def.2 Also One who has the superintendence, management, or care, of horses (مَنْ يَقُومُ عَلَى الخَيْلِ [strangely rendered by Freytag, who seems to have read عَلَى الجَمَلِ, “ constrictus fune et stans super cameli dorso ”]).
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