رِجْلَةٌ
Root: رجل
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رِجْلَةٌ
: see the next preceding paragraph, first sentence.
def.2 [Also, accord. to the K, a pl. of رَاجلٌ or of one of its syns.]
def.3 And A herd, or detached number collected together, of wild animals.
def.4 And A place in which grow [plants, or trees, of the kind called] عَرْفَج, accord. to Az, in which grow many thereof, in one رَوْضَة [or meadow].
2 And A water-course, or channel in which water flows, from a [stony tract such as is called] حَرَّة to a soft, or plain, tract: pl. رِجَلٌ; a term similar to مَذَانِبُ [pl. of مِذْنَبٌ]: so says Er-Rághib: the waters pour to it, and it retains them: and on one occasion he says, the رِجْلَة is like the قَرِيّ; it is wide, and people alight in it: he says also, it is a water-course of a plain, or soft, tract, such as is ملباث, or, as in one copy, مِنْبَات [which is app. the right reading, meaning productive of much herbage].
def.5 الرِجْلَةُ also signifies A species of the [kind of plants called] حَيْض.
2 And, accord. to [some of] the copies of the K [in this place], The عَرْفَج; but correctly the فَرْفَخ [as in the CK here, and in the K &c. in art. فرفخ]; i. q. البَقْلَةُ الحَمُقَآءُ; thus the people commonly called it; i. e. البقلةالحمقآء; [all of these three appellations being applied to Purslane, or purslain; and generally to the garden purslane:] it is [said to be] called الحمقآء because it grows not save in a water-course: (S: [i. e. the wild sort: but see art. حمق:]) whence the saying, أَحْمَقُ مِنْ رِجْلَةٍ [explained in art. حمق], meaning this بَقْلَة: the vulgar say, مِنْ رِجْلِهِ. (S, K, TA. [In the CK, erroneously, من رَجْلَةٍ.])
def.2 [Also, accord. to the K, a pl. of رَاجلٌ or of one of its syns.]
def.3 And A herd, or detached number collected together, of wild animals.
def.4 And A place in which grow [plants, or trees, of the kind called] عَرْفَج, accord. to Az, in which grow many thereof, in one رَوْضَة [or meadow].
2 And A water-course, or channel in which water flows, from a [stony tract such as is called] حَرَّة to a soft, or plain, tract: pl. رِجَلٌ; a term similar to مَذَانِبُ [pl. of مِذْنَبٌ]: so says Er-Rághib: the waters pour to it, and it retains them: and on one occasion he says, the رِجْلَة is like the قَرِيّ; it is wide, and people alight in it: he says also, it is a water-course of a plain, or soft, tract, such as is ملباث, or, as in one copy, مِنْبَات [which is app. the right reading, meaning productive of much herbage].
def.5 الرِجْلَةُ also signifies A species of the [kind of plants called] حَيْض.
2 And, accord. to [some of] the copies of the K [in this place], The عَرْفَج; but correctly the فَرْفَخ [as in the CK here, and in the K &c. in art. فرفخ]; i. q. البَقْلَةُ الحَمُقَآءُ; thus the people commonly called it; i. e. البقلةالحمقآء; [all of these three appellations being applied to Purslane, or purslain; and generally to the garden purslane:] it is [said to be] called الحمقآء because it grows not save in a water-course: (S: [i. e. the wild sort: but see art. حمق:]) whence the saying, أَحْمَقُ مِنْ رِجْلَةٍ [explained in art. حمق], meaning this بَقْلَة: the vulgar say, مِنْ رِجْلِهِ. (S, K, TA. [In the CK, erroneously, من رَجْلَةٍ.])
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