ارتعد
Root: رعد
Form: 8
Full Definition
ارتعدVIII
He trembled, quivered, quaked, shivered, or became in a state of commotion, by reason of fear, or cold, &c.; as also رعد, Present.T يرعد: (Msb: [written in my copy without any syll. signs; but it seems to be indicated that it is
Present.T يَرْعُدُ: I believe, however, that
is also used in this sense, and in the sense here following:]) he was affected with a tremour, quivering, quaking, shivering, or commotion; as also
, and
تَرَعْدَدَ , and
ترعّد ; by fear, or cold, &c. You say, فَرَائِصُهُ عِنْدَ الفَزَعِ [His muscles called the
فرائصَ (pl. of فَرِيصَةٌ q. v.) quivered on the occasion of fright]. And الأَلْيَةُ, or, as in some of the Lexicons, , The
الية [or buttock, or buttocks, &c.,] quivered, or moved to and fro: and in like manner one says of anything subject to such motion; as [the kinds of food called] قَرِيس and فَالُوذ, and a hill or heap of sand, and the like.