رَوْضَةٌ

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رَوْضَةٌ and رِيضَةٌ and [seem to be best rendered, in general, A meadow; meaning, a verdant tract of land, somewhat watery; or ground somewhat watery, not ploughed, but covered with grass and flowers: and sometimes, a garden: accord. to the following explanations:] verdant land: a place where water collects, and the herbage becomes abundant, without trees: or fresh green herbage, with water, or having water by its side; not otherwise: or, accord. to Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee, a tract of plain land, producing [lote-trees of the kind called] سِدْر; which may be of the extent of Baghdád: and also, of herbs, or leguminous plants, and fresh green herbage: or this last [only]: or a tract of plain land, in which are جَرَاثِيم [perhaps here meaning ants' nests, as these are generally found in soft soil,] and soft hillocks, in the low, or best and most productive, parts of a country, where water stagnates, or remains, or collects, at least a hundred cubits in extent: or a tract of sand, and of fresh green herbage, where water stagnates, or remains, or collects; so called because of the stagnation, or remaining, or collecting, of the water therein: it is said that رَوْضَةٌ is mostly applied to a place where beasts pasture at pleasure: some say that it signifies a land having waters and trees, and sweet, or pleasant, flowers: or a place that is pleasant with flowers; said to be so called because the waters that flow thither rest there: it is said in the 'Ináyeh, that رَوْضٌ [perhaps a mistake for رَوْضَةٌ] signifies a garden; and in common conventional language, one having rivers, or rivulets: MF says that rivers, or rivulets, do not necessarily belong to the signification; but that having water does; though not in common conventional language: accord. to Th, رَوْضَةٌ signifies a beautiful garden: the pl. of رَوْضَةٌ is رَوْضٌ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and رِيَاضٌ, originally رِوَاضٌ, and رِيضَانٌ, originally رِوْضَانٌ, or rather رِيضَانٌ is pl. of رَوْضٌ , and رَوْضَاتٌ, in the dial. of Hudheyl رَوَضَاتٌ: Az says that the رياض of the hard and stony and rugged tracts in the desert are low level places, in which the rainwater stagnates, or remains, or collects, and which consequently produce various kinds of herbage, that do not quickly dry up and wither: that sometimes a رَوْضَة contains thickets of wild سِدْر: and sometimes it is a mile in length and breadth: but such as are very wide are termed قِيعَان. It is said in a prov., أَحْسَنُ مِنْ بَيْضَةٍ فِى رَوْضَةٍ [More beautiful than an egg in a meadow, or garden]. And one says, أَنَا عِنْدَكَ فِى رَوْضَةٍ [I, in thy presence, am as though I were in a meadow, or garden]: and مَجْلِسُكَ رَوْضَةٌ مِنْ رِيَاضِ الجَنَّةِ [Thy sittingplace is like a meadow, or garden, of the meadows, or gardens, of Paradise]. Mohammad is related to have said, “Between my grave, or between my house, and my pulpit is a رَوْضَة of the رِيَاض of Paradise:” meaning, accord. to Th, that he who abides in this place is as though he abode in a روضة of the رياض of Paradise. [See another tropical meaning of رِيَاضُ الجَنَّةِ voce رَتَعَ, last sentence.]
2 رَوْضَةٌ also signifies Any water that collects in pools left by torrents, or the like, and in places in land or in the ground to which the rain-water flows and which retain it. (K, * TA. [In the CK, الاَخّاذات and المُسّاكات are erroneously put for الإِخَاذَات and المَسَّاكَات.])
3 Also, or رَوْضٌ , About the half of a فِرْبَة [or water-skin] of water: and the former, as much of water as covers the bottom of a watering-trough.

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