رَاعِدٌ
Root: رعد
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رَاعِدٌ
[Thundering clouds]: and سَحَابَةٌ
رَاعِدَةٌ [a thundering cloud]: pl. of the fem. رَوَاعِدُ. [See an ex. in a verse cited voce إِمَّا.] صَلَفٌ تَحْتَ الرَّاعِدَةِ [A lack, or paucity, of rain beneath the thundering cloud], or رُبَّ صَلِفٍ تَحْتَ الرَّاعِدَةِ, (S and K &c. in art. صلف,) or رُبَّ صَلَفٍ (A, and S and K &c. in art. صلف,) [i. e., accord. as we read صَلِفٍ or صَلَفٍ, Many a cloud lacking, or having little, rain, or oftentimes a lack, or paucity, of rain, is there beneath the thundering cloud,] is a prov., applied to a loquacious man destitute of good: or to a loquacious man who speaks much of that which he has not done: or to one who threatens and does not perform: (S and O and K in art. صلف:) or to the wealthy niggard: or to him who praises himself much and is destitute of good.
2 See also رَعْدٌ, in two places.
2 See also رَعْدٌ, in two places.
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