Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رِئَآءٌ

Root: رأى

Full Definition

رِئَآءٌ an Verbal.Noun of 3 [q. v.].
2 [Hence,] قَوْمٌ رِئَآءٌ A party, or company of men, facing one another. And in like manner, بُيُوتُهُمْ رِئَآءٌ [Their tents, or houses, are facing one another]. And مَنَازِلُهُمْ رِئَآءٌ Their places of alighting, or abode, are facing, or opposite, one to another.
3 And دُورُ القَوْمِ مِنَّا رِئَآؤٌ The houses of the people, or party, are as far as the eye reaches, where we see them, namely, the people.
4 And هُمْ رِئَآءُ أَلْفٍ They are as many as a thousand in the sight of the eye.


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