رُودٌ
Root: رود
Full Definition
[As though he were like him who walks, or goes, gently, &c.]: but this is a mistake; for رُودٌ is not put in the place of a verb, as إِرْوَادٌ is. Accord. to Ibn-Keysán, seems to have two contr. significations; for they said, رُوَيْدَ زَيْدًا, meaning Leave thou Zeyd, or let him alone; and also meaning act thou gently towards, or with, Zeyd, and retain him, or withhold him. One says also, عَمْرًا, meaning Act thou gently, &c., towards, or with, 'Amr; syn. أَمْهِلْهُ: the ك in this case being a denotative of allocution, and having no place in the desinential syntax: it is added only when رويد is used in the sense of an imperative; and to prevent confusion of him who is meant to be addressed with him who is not meant, because رويد applies to one and to more than one and to the male and to the female; though sometimes one says رويدك to a person when one does not fear his being confounded with another, using the ك as a corroborative. In this case, is an abbreviated dim. of إِرْوَاد, the Verbal.Noun of أَرْوَدَ. In like manner also one says, to a male, [Act thou gently, &c., towards, or with, me]; and to a female, ; and to two persons; and to males more than two; and to females more than two. is used in four different manners: first, as a verbal n.; as in عَمْرًا, i. e. أَرْوِدْ عَمْرًا, meaning أَمْهِلْهُ [expl. above]: secondly, as an Verbal.Noun; as in عَمْرٍو [virtually meaning the same]; the former word being prefixed to the latter, governing it in the gen. case; like فَضَرْبَ الرِّقَابِ, in the Kur [xlvii. 4], in which the Verbal.Noun is put for its verb; and like عَذِيرَ الحَىِّ [expl. in art. عذر]: thirdly, as an epithet; as in سَارُوا سَيْرًا [They went, or journeyed, at a gentle, or leisurely, rate of going, or journeying]; and سَارُوا, in which سَيْرًا is suppressed: fourthly, as a denotative of state; as in سَارَ القَوْمُ [The people, or party, went, or journeyed, going, or journeying, gently, or leisurely]; it being here in connection with a determinate noun, and therefore a denotative of its state. When it is used as a threat, it is with nasb, without tenween; as in the saying of a poet,كَأَنَّهُ مِثْلُ مَنْ يَمْشِى عَلَى رُودِ
[Act thou, or proceed thou, gently, lest our coursers neigh, one to another, in El-'Irák: it is as though thou wert with Ed-Dahhák, his summoner to battle having already risen]. Sb mentions his having heard the saying, وَٱللّٰهِ لَوْ أَرَدْتَ الدَّرَاهِمَ لَأَعْطَيْتُكَ مَا الشِّعْرَ [By God, hadst thou desired the money, I had given thee: let alone the poetry: ما being here redundant]: like the phrase, فَدَعِ الشِّعْرَ: and similar to this is the saying, الشِّعْرَ يَغِبَّ [explained in art. غب].تَصَاهَلْ بِٱلْعِرَاقِ جِيَادُنَا كَأَنَّكَ بِالضَّحَّاكِ قَدْ قَامَ نَادِبُهْ
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