رَيْطَةٌ
Root: ريط
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رَيْطَةٌ
Any [covering for the body such as is called] مُلَآءَة
not of two pieces joined together by sewing or the like, but a single piece, all one web: it is said by Az to be, without exception, white: or it signifies, or signifies also, sometimes, any garment, or piece of cloth, that is thin and soft; so says ISk, on the authority of certain of the Arabs of the desert; as also
رَائِطَةٌ : and a napkin with which the hands are wiped after food: [in Har p. 294, q. v., it seems to be applied to a kind of woollen cloth used as a turban:] pl.
رَيْطٌ [or this is rather a coll. gen. n. of which رَيْطَةٌ is the n. un.] and رِيَاطٌ.
2 You say, خَرَجَ مُشْتَمِلًا بِرَيْطَةِ الظَّلْمَآءِ
3 The pl. رِيَاطٌ
2 You say, خَرَجَ مُشْتَمِلًا بِرَيْطَةِ الظَّلْمَآءِ
3 The pl. رِيَاطٌ
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