تَرْوِيحَةٌ
Root: روح
Full Definition
2 Hence, the تَرْوِيحَة of the month of Ramadán, or صَلَاةُ التَّرَاوِيحِ [A form of prayer performed at some period of the night in the month of Ramadán, after the ordinary prayer of nightfall, consisting of twenty, or more, rek'ahs, according to different persuasions]; so called because the per former rests after each ترويحة, which consists of four rek'ahs; or because they used to rest between every two [pairs of] salutations. [See De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., i. 167-8.] You say, صَلَّيْتُ بِهِمُ التَّرَاوِيحَ [I performed with them the prayer of the تراويح].
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