رِتَاجٌ

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رِتَاجٌ A door: or a great door; as also رَتَجٌ : or a door locked, or shut or closed, having a small door, or wicket: or it signifies also a door that is locked, or shat or closed: pl. رُتُجٌ and رَتَائِجُ, and, accord. to MF, أَرْتَاجٌ, but this is irreg., and he has given no authority for it. Hence رِتَاجُ الكَعْبَةِ [The door of the Kaabeh]: and the Kaabeh itself: and [hence also] الِرّتَاجُ is a name of Mekkeh. جَعَلَ مَالَهُ فِى رِتَاجِ الكَعْبَةِ, occurring in a trad., means, or is said to mean, He made his property, or cattle, a votive offering to be taken to the Kaabeh; not the door itself; the Kaabeh being thus called because by the door one enters it.
2 Also The part of the womb that closes upon the fœtus; as being likened to a door.
3 أَرْضٌ ذَاتُ رِتَاجٍ occurs in a trad. [app. as meaning A land having a place of ingress that is, or may be, closed: or it may mean a land having in it rocks: see رِتَاجَةٌ, of which رِتَاجٌ may be a coll. gen. n.].

def.2 نَاقَةٌ رِتَاجُ الصَّلَا A she-camel firm or compact [in the middle of the back, or in the part on either side of the tail, &c.].

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