Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and al-Mufradat — All in One Search

Try Now
Home › Dictionary › ردع

رَدَعَهُ

Root: ردع

Form: 1

Full Definition

رَدَعَهُI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun رَدْعٌ, He restrained, withheld, prevented, or hindered, him; made him to restrain himself, withhold himself, refrain, forbear, or abstain; turned him back, repelled him, or averted him; عَنِ الشَّىْءِ from the thing.
2 [Hence, app.,] رَدَعَ جَيْبَهُ عَنْهُ He cleared his bosom, or heart, of it; syn. فَرَجَهُ, or فَرَّجَهُ; [as though he withheld his mind from it;] meaning, grief, and perturbation; جيب being used to signify the “ bosom, ” and the “ heart: ” mentioned by Sgh.
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mufradat

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more

Related Words from the Same Root

Verbs

Nouns