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رَحْبٌ

Root: رحب

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رَحْبٌ and رَحِيبٌ and رُحَابٌ Ample, spacious, wide, or roomy; applied to a place, or a thing. You say بِلَدٌ رَحْبٌ, and أَرْضٌ رَحْبَةٌ, An ample, or a spacious, or wide, country, and land, and ارض also: and مَنْزِلٌ رَحْبٌ and رَحِيبٌ an ample, or a spacious, or wide, place of alighting or abode: and طَرِيقٌ رَحْبٌ a wide road. And قِدْرٌ رُحَابٌ An ample cookingpot: and رُحَابٌ alone is [elliptically] used as meaning a cooking-pot. And اِمْرَأَةٌ رُحَابٌ A wide woman; meaning wide in respect of the فَرْج. And رَجُلٌ الجَوْفِ A man ample, or wide, in the belly: and, as mentioned by Es-Suyootee, a great eater; voracious; and so رَحِيبٌ alone. And رَجُلٌ رَحْبُ الصَّدْر and الصَّدْرِ and الصَّدْرِ, A man ample, or dilated, in the breast, or bosom; [meaning free-minded; free from distress of mind; without care: and free from narrowness of mind; liberal, munificent, or generous.] And رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ Liberal, munificent, or generous; as also رَحْبُ البَاعِ; and so الذِّرَاعِ and البَاعِ And رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ means also Having ample, or extensive, power, or strength, in cases of difficulty: or having ample strength, and power, and might in war or fight, courage, valour, or prowess. (TA in art. ذرع) And فُلَانٌ رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ لِكَذَا Such a one has power, or ability, for that.
2 See also رَحَبَةٌ.
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