رَجَعَ

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رَجَعَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun رُجُوعٌ and رَجْعٌ, but the former is that which commonly obtains and is agreeable with analogy as Verbal.Noun of the intrans. v., and the latter as Verbal.Noun of the trans. v., and مَرْجَعٌ, which is anomalous, because inf. ns. [of this kind] of verbs of the measure فَعَلَ having the Present.T of the measure يَفْعِلُ are [by rule] only with fet-h [to the medial radical], and مَرْجِعَةٌ, which is in like manner anomalous, and رُجْعَى, [not رُجْعًى as in the Lexicons of Golius and Freytag,] and رُجْعَانٌ, He returned; he went, or came, back [to the same place, or person, or state, or occupation, or action, or saying, &c.]; he reverted; contr. of ذَهَبَ; i. q. انْصَرَفَ: رُجُوعٌ signifies the returning to a former place, or quality, or state; the returning to that from which was the commencement, or from which the commencement is supposed to have been, whether it be a place, or an action, or a saying, and whether the returning be by the [whole] person or thing, or by a part thereof, or by an action thereof. Hence the saying in the Kur [lxiii. 8], لَئِنْ رَجَعْنَا إِلَى المَدِينَةِ [Verily if we return to the city]. And [in the same, xii. 63,] فَلَمَّا رَجَعُوا إِلَى أَبِيهِمْ [And when they returned to their father]. And in the same, [vi. 164, and xxxix. 9,] ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ مَرْجِعُكُمْ [Then unto your Lord shall be your return]: the like of which occurs in the same, vi. 60: but it may be either from [the intrans. Verbal.Noun] رُجُوعٌ or from [the trans.] رَجْعٌ: it cannot be a n. of place, because it is made trans. by means of إِلَى, and also because it occurs in the Kur [v. 53, &c.], followed by جَمِيعًا, as a denotative of state: in like manner الرُّجْعَى also occurs in the Kur xcvi. 8. You say also, رَجَعَتِ المَرْأَةُ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا The woman returned to her family by reason of the death of her husband or by reason of divorcement.
2 رَجَعَ إِلَى الصِّحَّةِ [He returned to soundness, or health], or المَرَضِ [disease, or sickness]; and إِلَى حَالَةِ الفَقْرِ [to the state of poverty], or الغِنَى [wealth, or competence, or sufficiency].
3 رَجَعَ عَوْدَهُ عَلَى بَدْئِهِ He returned in the way by which he had come.
4 رَجَعَ مِنْ سَفَرِهِ He returned from his journey.
5 رَجَعَ عَنِ الأِمْرِ He returned [or reverted] from the affair.
6 رَجَعَ عَنِ الشَّىْءِ He left, or relinquished, the thing.
7 رَجَعَ عَنِ الذَّنْبِ [He relinquished sin; i. e.] he repented; and so رَجَعَ alone, agreeably with the usage in the Kur iii. 65, &c.
8 [Several other phrases, in which this verb occurs, will be found in other arts.: as رَجَعَ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ in art. ظهر: رَجَعْتُ القَهْقَرَى in art. قهقر: رَجَعَ دَرَجَهُ, and variations thereof, in art. درج: &c.]
9 رَجَعَ إِلَيْهِ [sometimes signifies the same as رَجَعَ عَلَيْهِ] He returned against him; he returned to attack him.
10 صَرَمّنِى ثُمَّ رَجَعَ يَكَلِّمُنِى [He cut me, or ceased to speak to me; then he returned to speaking to me].
11 خَالَفَنِى ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى قَوْلِى [He opposed me, or disagreed with me; then he returned, or had regard, to my saying].
12 مَا رُجِعَ إِلَيْهِ فِى خَطْبٍ إِلَّا كَفَى [Re course was not had to him in an affair, or an affliction, but he sufficed.] [رَجَعَ إِلَيْهِ often means He had recourse, or he recurred, to him, or it.]
13 رَجَعَ بِهِ عَلَى شَرِيكِهِ He made a claim for restitution of it upon his co-partner. (IAth, TA in art. خلط.) And [in like manner you say,] عَلَى الغَرِيمِ, and المُتَّهَمِ, He sued, prosecuted, or made a demand upon, the debtor, and the suspected, for his right, or due. (TA: [in which it is said, immediately before this, that ارتجع is like رَجَعَ.])
14 رَجَعَ الكَلْبُ فِى قَيْئِهِ The dog returned to his vomit, and ate it.
15 Hence, رَجَعَ فِى هِبَتِهِ He took back his gift; repossessed himself of it; restored it to his possession; as also , and . And مِنْهُ الشَّىْء He took back from him the thing which he had given to him.
16 [Hence also, رَجَعَ فِى قَوْلِهِ, and فِى حُكْمِهِ He retracted, or revoked, his saying, and his judgment, or sentence.]
17 هُوَ يَرْجِعُ إِلَى مَنْصِبِ صِدْقٍ He traces back his lineage to an excellent origin. (TA in art. نصب.)
18 [يَرْجِعُ إِلَى مَعْنَى كَذَا It is referrible, or reducible, to such a meaning. And يُرْجِعُ إِلَى كَذَا, said of a word, also means It relates to such a thing; i. e., to such another word, in grammatical construction.]
19 رَجَعَ إِلَى قَدْرِ كَذَا It became reduced to such a quantity; syn. آلَ. (S in art. اول.)
20 رَجَعَ الحَوْضُ إِلَى إِزَائِهِ The water of the trough, or tank, became much in quantity [so that it returned to the height of the place whence it poured in].
21 رِجَاعٌ , also, is an Verbal.Noun of this verb, and is used as signifying The returning of birds after their migrating to a hot country. You say, رَجَعَتِ الطَّيْرُ القَوَاطِعُ, Verbal.Noun رِجَاعٌ and رَجْعٌ, The migratory birds returned.
22 Also Verbal.Noun of رَجَعَتْ said of a-she camel, and of a she-ass, signifying She raised her tail, and compressed her two sides (قُطْرَيْهَا), and cast forth her urine in repeated discharges, so that she was imagined to be pregnant, and then failed of fulfilling her [apparent] promise: (S: [in some copies of which, as is said in the TA, the Verbal.Noun of the verb in this sense is written رُجُوع:]) or she conceived, and then failed of fulfilling her promise; because she who does so goes back from what is hoped of her: or, said of a she-camel, she cast forth her fœtus in an imperfect state: or, as some say, her embryo in a fluid state: or in an unformed state; Verbal.Noun رِجَاعٌ. (Msb in art. خدج.) [See also رَاجِعٌ, below.]

def.2 , Present.T رَجَعَهُ, Verbal.Noun رَجْعٌ and مَرْجَعٌ and مَرْجِعٌ, He made, or caused, him, or it, to return, go back, come back, or revert; sent back, turned back, or returned, him, or it; syn. رَدَّهُ; and صَرَفَهُ; عَنِ الشَّىْءِ from the thing; and إِلَيْهِ to it; as also ; but the former is the more chaste word, and is that which is used in the Kur-án, in ix. 84 [and other places]: the latter is of the dial. of Hudheyl; and is said by MF to be of weak authority, and bad; but [SM says,] I do not find this asserted by any of the leading authorities: , also, signifies [the same, i. e.] the same as رَدَّهُ in like manner followed by إِلَى. Thus in the Kur ix. 84, referred to above, فَإِنْ رَجَعَكَ ٱللّٰهُ [And if God make thee to return, or restore thee].
2 رَجَعَ فُلَانٌ عَلِى أَنْفِ بَعِيِرهِ Such a one put back, or restored, the nose-rein [الخِطَامَ being understood] upon the nose of his camel; it having become displaced.
3 رَجَعَ إِلَىَّ الجَوَابَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun رَجْعٌ and رُجْعَانٌ, He returned to me the answer.
4 رَجَعْتُ الكَلَامَ I returned the speech; or I repeated it; or I rebutted, or rejected, or repudiated, it, in reply, or replication; syn. رَدَدْتُهُ. [In like manner,] يَرْجِعُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ القَوْلَ, in the Kur [xxxiv. 30], means Holding a colloquy, or a disputation, or debate, one with another: [or it means rebutting one another's sayings:] or blaming one another.
5 الرَّجْعُ, or رَجْعُ الدَّابَّةِ يَدَيْهَا فِى السَّيْرِ, The stepping of the beast, or her returning her fore legs, [drawing the fore feet backwards towards the body, by lifting them high,] in going; and , or تَرْجِيعُ الدَّابّةِ يَدَيْهَا فِى السَّيْرِ, signifies the same: or رَجْعٌ signifies a beast's elevating, or lifting high, the fore foot and hind foot, in going. You say, الدَّابَّةُ يَدَيْهَا فِى السَّيْرِ [The beast stepped, &c.; like as you say, رَجَعَت].
6 رَجْعُ الوَاشمَةِ, and , The female tattooer's making marks or lines [upon the skin]: [or rather, as the former phrase is explained in the EM p. 143, “ her retracing ” those marks or lines, and renewing their blackness; for] you say also, النَقْشَ, and الوَشْمَ, [and رَجَعَهُ,] He retraced the marks, or lines, of the variegated work, and of the tattooing, and renewed their blackness, one time after another. And الكِتَابَةَ, [and رَجَعَهَا,] He retraced, or renewed, the writing.
7 رَجَعَ نَاقَةً, and , and ترجّعها , He purchased a she-camel with the price of another that he sold: or he purchased a she-camel with the price of a he-camel that he sold; and رِجَعٌ , which is app. an Verbal.Noun, signifies the selling males and purchasing females: or مَالًا signifies he sold the aged and the younglings of his came's, and purchased such as were in a state of youthful vigour: or, as some say, he sold the males, and purchased females: or signifies the selling a thing, and purchasing in its place what one imagines to be more youthful, and better: regard is bad, therein, to the meaning of a return, virtual, or understood, though not real: also إِبِلًا he sold old and weak camels, and purchased such as were in a state of youthful vigour: or he sold male camels, and purchased females: and إِبِلًا بِإِبِلِهِ he took camels in exchange for his camels: or, as some say, signifies the taking one in the place, and with the price, of two.
8 رَجَعَ العَلَفُ فِى الدَّابَّةِ The fodder, or food, produced an effect, or showed its effect, upon the beast. And رَجَعَ كَلَامِى فِيهِ My speech produced a beneficial effect upon him.

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