Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رَجِزَ

Root: رجز

Form: 1

Full Definition

رَجِزَI , [Present.T ـَ] Verbal.Noun رَجَزٌ, He had the disease termed رَجَزٌ [expl. below].

def.2 رَجَزَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun رَجْزٌ, He said, spoke, uttered, or recited, poetry, or verse, of the metre termed رَجَزٌ; [see this word below;] he spoke in verse of that metre; he poetized, or versified, in that metre; as also ; and in like manner , he composed verses of that metre. (Ibn-Buzurj, L in art. قصد.) You say also, رَجَزَبِهِ He recited to him (أَنْشَدَهُ [so in more than one MS. copy of the K, and in the TA, but in the CK أَنْشَدَ, without the affixed pronoun, which is probably wrong,]) a poem of that metre; as also رجّزهُ , Verbal.Noun تَرْجِيزٌ. And ترجّز He urged, or excited, his camels by singing رَجَز, or his رَجَز: so accord. to different copies of the K.
2 [Hence,] رَجَزَتِ الرِّيحُ, Verbal.Noun رَجْزٌ, The wind was continuous, or lasting. And الرَّعْدُ The thunder made uninterrupted sounds, like the recitation of the رَاجِز: or, as also ترجّز , made a sound: or made consecutive sounds. And البَحْرُ بَآذِيِّهِ [The sea makes a continuous sound, or murmuring, with its waves]; as also . [And hence, perhaps,] ترجّز السَّحَابُ The clouds moved slowly by reason of the abundance of their water. [See also 6.]


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