Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رَضِيعٌ

Root: رضع

Full Definition

رَضِيعٌ A foster-brother; syn. مُرَاضَعٌ : pl. رُضَعَآءُ You say, هٰذَا رَضِيعِى, i. e. هٰذَا أَخِى مِنَ الرَّضَاعَةِ [This is my foster-brother].
2 [A child while it is a suckling;] a child before it is termed فَطِيمٌ [i. e. weaned]. (IAar, TA in art. طبخ. [See also رَاضَعٌ.]) [In explanations of the words وَطْبٌ and شَكْوَةٌ in the S, it is applied as an epithet to a kid, evidently as meaning Sucking; or a suckling; like رَاضِعٌ, q. v., and رَضِعٌ.]
3 See two other significations, voce رَاضَغٌ, in two places.


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