رَتَمٌ
Root: رتم
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رَتَمٌ
[applied in the present day to The shrub broom; to several species thereof: spartium monospermum of Linn.: genista rætam of Forsk.: spartium: and phalaris setacea: ] a species of plant: or a species of tree; or so
رَتَمَةٌ ; of which the former is the pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.]: or the latter, or the former, the latter being its n. un., a certain plant, of the shrub-kind; as though by reason of its slenderness, it were likened to the thread, or string, called رَتَمِ: (AHn, T, * K, * TA: [see this word voce رَتِيمَةٌ: in the CK, in the present instance, erroneously written رَقْم:]) and so
رَتِيمَةٌ : its flower is like the
خِيرِىّ [or yellow gilliflower], and its seed is like the lentil: each of these strongly provokes vomiting: the drinking the expressed juice of its twigs, fasting, is a beneficial remedy for sciatica (عِرْقُ النَّسَا); and likewise the using as a clyster an infusion thereof in sea-water: and the swallowing twenty-one grains thereof, fasting, prevents the [pustules called] دَمَامِيل. When a man was about to make a journey, he betook himself to two branches, or two trees, and tied one branch to another, and said, “ If my wife be faithful to the compact, this will remain tied as it is; otherwise, she will have broken the compact: ” so says As; and ISk says the like: or he betook himself to a tree, or to the species of tree called رَتَم, and tied together two branches thereof, or he tied together two trees; and if he returned and found them as he tied them, he said that his wife had not been unfaithful to him; but otherwise, that she had been so: this [pair of branches or trees] is called الرَّتَمُ [in the CK, erroneously, الرَّتْمُ] and
: or this is what is meant by
: or this [action] is what is meant by تَعْقَادُ الرَّتَمِ in the following verse: but IB says that الرَّتَائِمُ [pl. of
] does not mean peculiarly one kind of trees exclusively of others: and he cites this verse as an ex. of الرَّتَمُ meaning the threads, or strings, so called; as does AZ. A rájiz says,
2 See also رَتِيمَةٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also A [leathern water-bag such as is called] مَزَادَة that is filled with water: or a [water-skin such as is called] مَزَاد.
def.3 And A road, or way; or the middle, or main part and middle, thereof; or a beaten track; syn. مَحَجَّةٌ.
def.4 And Suppressed, low-sounding, occult, or secret, speech or language.
def.5 And Perfect shame or sense of shame or pudency.
[Will the muchness of thine enjoining, and the tying of the retem, be indeed of use to thee to-day, if she be desirous of them?].هَلْ يَنْفَعَنْكَ اليَوْمَ إِنْ هَمَّتْ بِهِمْ كَثْرَةُ مَا تُوصِى وَتَعْقَادُ الرَّتَمْ
2 See also رَتِيمَةٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also A [leathern water-bag such as is called] مَزَادَة that is filled with water: or a [water-skin such as is called] مَزَاد.
def.3 And A road, or way; or the middle, or main part and middle, thereof; or a beaten track; syn. مَحَجَّةٌ.
def.4 And Suppressed, low-sounding, occult, or secret, speech or language.
def.5 And Perfect shame or sense of shame or pudency.
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