رَجًا

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رَجًا The side, in a general sense: or the side of a well, and of the sky, and of anything; and رَجَآءٌ signifies the same: the side of a well from its top to its bottom; and the two sides thereof: which last is also [or properly] the meaning of the dual; which is رَجَوَانِ: pl. أَرْجَآءٌ. Hence, in the Kur [lxix. 17], وَٱلْمَلَكُ عَلَى أَرْجَائِهَا [The angels being at the sides thereof]. They said, رُمِىَ بِهِ الرَّجَوَانِ, meaning He was cast into places of destruction: or it is said of one who is held in mean estimation: اِسْتِهْزَآءٌ in the K is a mistake for اُسْتُهِينَ بِهِ, the reading in the M: as though the two [opposite] sides of the well were cast at with him. And one says of him who will not be deceived so as to be turned away from one course to another, لَا تُرْمَى بِهِ الرَّجَوَانِ [lit. The two sides of the well will not be cast at with him]; in allusion to the well's two [opposite] sides' being cast at with the bucket.

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