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رَدَّةٌ

Root: رد

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رَدَّةٌ , or , [A quality that repels the eye:] unseemliness, or ugliness, with somewhat of comeliness, in the face: or somewhat of unseemliness or ugliness in the face of a woman who has some comeliness, or in the face of a comely woman: or unseemliness, or ugliness, from which the eye reverts: and a fault, or defect, in a man, or in the face.
2 And the former, or ↓ the latter, A receding (تَقَاعَسٌ) in the chin, when there is in the face somewhat of unseemliness, or ugliness, and somewhat of comeliness.
3 And the former, or ↓ the latter, The returned sound of the echo; as in the phrase, سَمِعْتُ رَدَّةَ الصَّدَى [I heard the returned sound of the echo]: or the echo of a mountain.
4 Also the former, A gift, or stipend; syn. عَطِيَّةٌ.
5 And Affection, and desire: so in the phrase, لَهُ رَدَّةٌ فِينَا [He has affection, and desire, for us], in a verse of 'Orweh Ibn-El-Ward.
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