رَائِعٌ
Root: روع
Full Definition
2 Applied to beauty, That excites admiration and approval in the رُوع [i. e. heart, or mind,] of him who beholds it, and pleases him, or rejoices him. Applied to a man, as also أَرْوَعُ so applied, Who excites admiration and approval by his beauty and pleasingness of aspect, with generousness, or nobleness, and excellence, and lordly condition; or by his courage: or the former, beautiful in countenance, who excites admiration and approval by his pleasingness of aspect and by the goodliness of his form or figure or state of apparel and the like: or, as some say, who frightens men by his aspect, inspiring reverence or awe: but the former explanation is the more reasonable: and ↓ the latter epithet, a beautiful man, who excites admiration and approval in him who beholds him: or, as some say, sharp; lively in spirit, and sharp in intellect: [see also the next preceding paragraph:] the fem. of the former is with ة: that of the latter, : the pl. of رَائِعٌ is أَرْوَاعٌ, applied to men, like as رَوَائِعُ [the pl. of رَائِعَةٌ] is to women: and the pl. of أَرْوَعُ and رَوْعَآءُ is رُوعٌ , applied to men and to women. You say also, فَرَسٌ رَائِعٌ A beautiful horse, that frightens (يُرُوعُ, i. e. يُخَوِّفُ, [or rather startles, but better rendered excites admiration and approval in, or pleases, or rejoices,]) the beholder by his beauty: and فَرَسٌ رَائِعَةٌ, and , [but see, respecting the latter, a remark of IAar in the next preceding paragraph,] a mare that excites admiration and approval, or pleases, or rejoices, (تَرُوعُ,) by her generousness, or excellence, or high blood, and her description. [See also art. ريع, to which, as well as to the present art., رَائِعٌ, applied to a horse, is said, in the TA, to belong.] And زِينَةٌ رَائِعَةٌ Beautiful ornament. And كَلَامٌ رَائِعٌ
def.2 Also Frightened, or afraid; and so رَوِعٌ , with the و unaltered, as though it were of the measure فَعِيلٌ: [or both signify having fright or fear: for] each is a possessive epithet: or the former may be of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ [and therefore have the signification first given].
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