مَرْتَعٌ
Root: رتع
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مَرْتَعٌ
A place of pasturing: [or of unrestrained and plentiful pasturing;] a place where beasts pasture at pleasure; where they eat and drink what they please, going and coming therein, by day, amid abundance of herbage, and plenty: [see 1:] pl. مَرَاتِعُ.
2 [And Pasture itself:] one says, أَكَلُوا مَرْتَعَ الأَرْضِ [They consumed, or ate, the pasture of the land]. (M in art. ردم.)
2 [And Pasture itself:] one says, أَكَلُوا مَرْتَعَ الأَرْضِ [They consumed, or ate, the pasture of the land]. (M in art. ردم.)
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