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رِزٌّ

Root: رز

Full Definition

رِزٌّ A piercing [pain] and rumbling in the belly: or pain in the belly; as also رِزِّيزَى : or pain, and pressure of the feces: or the pressure and motion of the feces in the belly, in the effort to pass forth, so that the person who feels it wants to enter the privy; whether it be with a rumbling or without: or a sound of rumbling or the like in the belly. You say, وَجَدْتُ فِى بَطْنِى رِزًّا I felt in my belly a piercing [pain] and rumbling: or a pain: (As, S: expl. in the KL by the Pers. word دَرْد:) as also رِزِّيزَى : or pain, and pressure of the feces; &c.
2 [Hence,] A vehement burning in the mouth of a camel, arising from thirst, with pain.
3 Also A low sound: any sound that is not vehement: or a sound that one hears from afar; as also رِزِّيزَى : or a sound that one hears but knows not what it is: or a sound in a more common sense; vehement or slight: or a sound; as of thunder &c.: or the sound of thunder; as also رَزِيزٌ , [in measure] like أَمِيرٌ: or the former has a more general application: and إِرْزِيزٌ [in like manner] signifies a sound: and also thunder: and رِزٌّ also signifies the braying of a stallion-camel.
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