رَاجِعٌ

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رَاجِعٌ [act. part. n. of 1. Hence the saying, إِنَّا لِلّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ, explained above: see 10.
2 Also, without ة,] A woman who returns to her family in consequence of the death of her husband or in consequence of divorcement; as also مُرَاجِعٌ : or, accord. to some, she who is divorced [and sent back to her family] is termed مَرْدُودَةٌ.
3 [In like manner without ة,] applied to a she-camel, and to a she-ass, it signifies That raises her tail, and compresses her two sides (قُطْرَيْهَا), and casts forth her urine in repeated discharges, so that she is imagined to be pregnant, and then fails of fulfilling her [apparent] promise: or that conceives, and then fails of fulfilling her promise; because she goes back from what is hoped of her: or, applied to a she-camel, that has appeared to have conceived, and is then found to be not pregnant: pl. رَوَاجِعُ. [See also رَجَعَتْ.]
4 A sick man whose soul [or health] has returned to him after his being debilitated by disease: and a man whose soul [or health] has returned to him after severe and constant illness.

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