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رَغَثَهَا

Root: رغث

Form: 1

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رَغَثَهَاI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun رَغَثٌ; and ; said of a kid, [and app. of a lamb, or of any young animal,] He sucked her; namely, his mother.
2 Hence, in a trad., ذَهَبَ رَسُولُ ٱللّٰهِ صَلَّى ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأَنْتُمْ تَرْغَثُونَهَا [The Apostle of God has departed from the world, and ye suck the sweets of it]; meaning the world; i. e. تَرْضَعُونَهَا.
3 [Hence also,] رَغَثَهُ النَّاسُ The people, or men, asked, or begged, of him so much that all that he had passed away. And رُغِثَ, Verbal.Noun رِغَاثٌ, He was asked of, or begged of, so much that all that he had became exhausted.

def.2 رُغِثَ, or رُغِثَتْ said of a woman, He, or she, had a complaint of, or a pain in, the رُغَثَآء.
2 رَغَثَهُ He thrust, pierced, stuck, or stabbed, him time after time; and so .
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