رِيَاغٌ
Root: ريغ
Full Definition
رِيَاغٌ
, as in the [T and] O and Tekmileh and L; in the K, erroneously, رِيغٌ ; Dust, or dust raised: or, as some say, dust, or earth, in a general sense: or such as is comminuted. Ru-beh says, describing an ass [i. e. a wild ass] and his females,
def.2 And i. q. نِفَارٌ [The act of fleeing, going away or aside or apart or to a distance, retiring to a distance, shrinking, &c.; Verbal.Noun of نَفَرَ, q. v.]: so some say.
def.3 Sgh says that this word may belong to the present art. and to art. روغ, q. v.
using an inversion, for he means أَثَارَتْ رِيَاغًا مِنْ سَمْلَقٍ [i. e. And if they raise earth from a level plain, the sides of their hoofs make it to fall down reduced to powder].وَإِنْ أَثَارَتْ مِنْ رِيَاغٍ سَمْلَقَا تَهْوِى حَوَامِيهَا بِهِ مُدَقَّقَا
def.2 And i. q. نِفَارٌ [The act of fleeing, going away or aside or apart or to a distance, retiring to a distance, shrinking, &c.; Verbal.Noun of نَفَرَ, q. v.]: so some say.
def.3 Sgh says that this word may belong to the present art. and to art. روغ, q. v.
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