رَتْعَةٌ
Root: رتع
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رَتْعَةٌ
Abundance of herbage; or of the goods, conveniences, and comforts, of life; fruitfulness; plenty: and a state of ampleness in respect thereof: a subst. from 1. Hence the prov., القَيْدُ وَالرَّتْعَةُ, and
; the former on the authority of Fr, and the latter from some other, accord. to the O; but in the L, the latter is ascribed to Fr; [Bonds and plenty; the latter word] meaning الخَصْبُ: said by 'Amr Ibn-Es-Saak: he had been taken prisoner by Shákir Ibn-Rabee'ah, a tribe of Hemdán, who treated him well; and when he left his people, he was slender; then he fled from Shákir; and when he came to his people, they said, “ O 'Amr, thou wentest forth from us slender, and now thon art corpulent; ” and he replied in the words above.
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