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مُرْتِعٌ

Root: رتع

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مُرْتِعٌ One who leaves his travelling-camels to pasture at their pleasure, or to eat and drink what they please, coming and going in the pasturage, by day, amid abundance of herbage, and plenty.
2 A man having abundance of herbage, or of the goods or conveniences and comforts of life, not lacking anything that he may desire. You say also قَوْمٌ مُرْتِعُونَ, meaning A people, or company of men, who are scarcely ever without abundance of herbage, or of the goods or conveniences and comforts of life; syn. مَخَاصِيبُ; and قَوْمٌ , after the manner of a rel. n., like طَعِمٌ: and in like manner رَتِعٌ is applied to herbage [as meaning scarcely ever other than abundant, or generally abundant].
3 Rain that produces, or gives growth to , herbage in which the camels may pasture at pleasure, or eat and drink what they please, amid abundance thereof and plenty.
4 أَرْضٌ مُرْتِعَةٌ Land in which the beasts eagerly desire to satiate themselves.
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