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ارهى

Root: رهو

Form: 4

Full Definition

ارهىIV He found, or met with, a wide, or an ample, place.
2 He took to wife a woman wide in the vulva.
3 He continued the food to his guests by reason of liberality. And أَرْهَيْتُ لَهُمُ الطَّعَامَ وَ الشَّرَابَ I continued to them the food and the beverage; like أَرْهَنْتُ.
4 He did well: they say to the shooter, or thrower, when he does ill, أَرْهِهْ, i. e. Do thou well.
5 أَرْهِ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ Be gentle with, or to, thyself: [in the CK ارْهُ; and thus in the printed edition of Har, p. 498; where it is said to be from رها فى السير, meaning رفق: but the right reading is أَرْهِ, for] one says also مَا أَرْهَيْتَ إِلَّا عَلَى نَفْسِكَ Thou wast not, or hast not been, gentle, save with, or to, thyself: or thou didst not show, or hast not shown, mercy, save to thyself.
6 ارهى لَكَ الشَّىْءُ The thing became, or has become, within thy power, or reach; or possible, or practicable, to thee.
7 And أَرْهَيْتُهُ لَكَ I made it, or have made it, to be within thy power, or reach; or possible, or practicable, to thee.
8 مَا أَرْهَيْتُهُ I did not leave it still, or motionless: and أَرْهِ ذَاكَ Leave thou that until it become still, or motionless.

def.2 He kept continually, or constantly, to the eating of the [رَهْو, or species of crane called] كُرُكِىّ.
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