رَحَبَةٌ
Root: رحب
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رَحَبَةٌ
, and رَحْبَةٌ, K,) the former of which is the more chaste, or the better, or the more common, The court, open area, or spacious vacant part or portion, of a mosque, and of a house, or of a place; so called because of its ampleness: and in like manner, between, or among, houses: a desert tract, or a spacious vacant tract, or a spacious piece of ground, between, or among, the yards of the houses of a people: and sometimes thus is termed an enclosure, or a [kind of wide bench of stone or brick such as is called] دُكَّان, that is made at the doors of some of the mosques in the towns and the rural districts, for prayer: hence the saying of Aboo-'Alee Ed-Dakkák, [in which it means an enclosure outside the door of a mosque,] “ It is not fit that the حَائِض should enter the رحبْة of the mosque of a people, whether the رحبة be contiguous or separate: ” and hence, also, in a trad. of 'Alee, by the رحبة of El-Koofeh is meant a
دُكَّان
in the midst of the mosque of El-Koofeh, upon which he used to sit and to preach, and upon which he is related to have cast the spoils that he obtained from the people of En-Nahrawán:
2 Also, both words, An ample tract of land, that produces much herbage, and in which people alight, or abide, much, or often: pl. as above, accord. to the K; but accord. to IAar, رَحْبَةٌ signifies an ample tract of land; and he says that its pl. is رُحَبٌ, like as قُرًى is pl. of قَرْيَةٌ: Az says that this occurs as an anomalous pl. of words of the defective class, and that he had not heard a word of the perfect class of the measure فَعْلَةٌ having a pl. of the measure فُعَلٌ; but that IAar is an authority worthy of reliance. And رَحَبَةُ الوَادِى, and رَحْبَتُهُ The part of the valley in which its water flows into it from its two sides: pl. رِحَابٌ [Or the pl.] رِحَابٌ signifies Plain, smooth, or soft, places, in which water collects and stagnates: they are the places where vegetation is most rapid, and are at the extremity of a valley, and in its middle, and sometimes in an elevated place, where water collects and stagnates, surrounded by what is more elevated: if in a plain tract of land, people alight and sojourn there: if in the interior of water-courses, people do not alight and sojourn there: if in the interior of a valley, and retaining the water, not very deep, and in breadth equal to a bow-shot, people alight and sojourn by the side thereof: رحاب are not in sands; but they are in low and in elevated tracts of land.
3 The place of aggregation and growth of the plant called ثُمَام [i. e. panic grass].
4 The place of grapes, [where they are dried,] like the جَرِين for dates.
2 Also, both words, An ample tract of land, that produces much herbage, and in which people alight, or abide, much, or often: pl. as above, accord. to the K; but accord. to IAar, رَحْبَةٌ signifies an ample tract of land; and he says that its pl. is رُحَبٌ, like as قُرًى is pl. of قَرْيَةٌ: Az says that this occurs as an anomalous pl. of words of the defective class, and that he had not heard a word of the perfect class of the measure فَعْلَةٌ having a pl. of the measure فُعَلٌ; but that IAar is an authority worthy of reliance. And رَحَبَةُ الوَادِى, and رَحْبَتُهُ The part of the valley in which its water flows into it from its two sides: pl. رِحَابٌ [Or the pl.] رِحَابٌ signifies Plain, smooth, or soft, places, in which water collects and stagnates: they are the places where vegetation is most rapid, and are at the extremity of a valley, and in its middle, and sometimes in an elevated place, where water collects and stagnates, surrounded by what is more elevated: if in a plain tract of land, people alight and sojourn there: if in the interior of water-courses, people do not alight and sojourn there: if in the interior of a valley, and retaining the water, not very deep, and in breadth equal to a bow-shot, people alight and sojourn by the side thereof: رحاب are not in sands; but they are in low and in elevated tracts of land.
3 The place of aggregation and growth of the plant called ثُمَام [i. e. panic grass].
4 The place of grapes, [where they are dried,] like the جَرِين for dates.
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