رَضْخٌ

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رَضْخٌ , originally an Verbal.Noun, used as a subst. [properly so termed]; or of the measure فَعْلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, like ضَرْبُ الأَمِيرِ [applied to a dirhem]; [app., in its primary acceptation when thus used, A fragment: for] you say, عِنْدَهُ رَضْخٌ مِنْ خُبْزٍ [He has a fragment of bread]: (A: [so in a copy of that work; and this is agreeable with significations of رَضَخَ: or the right reading may be خَبَرٍ: or it may be that which here next follows:]) عِنْدَهُ رَضْخُ خَيْرٍ He has somewhat of good, or of good things. Also A small gift; and so رَضْخَةٌ (JK, A, [in my copy of the Mgh, erroneously, رَضِخَةٌ,]) and رَضِيخَةٌ and رُضَاخَةٌ : or a moderate gift, neither good nor bad; and so رَضِيخَةٌ : and a small gift, less than one's share, of booty.
2 Also, [or رَضْخٌ مِنْ خَبَرٍ,] News, or tidings, or a little thereof, which one hears, but of which one is not sure, or with which one is not clearly, or plainly, acquainted: in some copies of the K, in the place of تَسْتَيْقِنُهُ, we find تَسْتَبِينُهُ.

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