رحل

رَحَلَ

To saddle a camel or put the saddle and its apparatus upon it; to bind one's equipment upon someone.

A transitive Form I use involving the camel, its saddle, or the equipment carried on it.

• Lane · entry 22775

رَحَلَ

To mount or ride a camel or another person; figuratively, to embark upon an affair.

The riding sense is also used of mounting another person or undertaking an affair, including one beyond one's capacity.

• Lane · entry 22775

رَحَلَ

Figuratively, to impose annoyance, harm, or an offensive act upon someone; to strike him with a sword.

A tropical extension of the saddle-and-riding imagery, used in constructions with a person as object.

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رَحَلَ

To remove, depart, go away, go forth, or journey from a place, country, or people.

The intransitive departure sense may also be said of a camel or a traveling group.

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رَحَّلَ

To make someone remove, depart, go forth, or journey; to send someone away.

Form II is causative and may occur with the person or thing from which someone is made to depart.

• Lane · entry 22776

تَرْحِيلٌ

The figuring or embellishment of cloth with designs representing camels' saddles.

A textile-related use derived from the saddle motif.

• Lane · entry 22776

رَاحَلَ

To assist someone in undertaking or completing a journey.

Form III expresses assistance with another person's journey.

• Lane · entry 22777

تَرَاحَلُوا

To journey together, here to a judge or arbiter.

A reciprocal or collective Form VI use.

• Lane · entry 22780

اِسْتَرْحَلَ

To ask someone to journey or remove for one's sake, or to ask him to saddle a camel.

The source records both an interpretation involving another's departure and one involving putting on the saddle.

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اِسْتَرْحَلَ

Figuratively, to abase oneself before people so that they burden or molest one, or to ask them to remove one's burden.

A tropical or figurative use of the Form X construction.

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أَرْحَلَ

To break or train a camel and make it fit to be saddled.

Form IV is used causatively of rendering an untractable camel suitable for riding.

• Lane · entry 22778

أَرْحَلَ

To give someone a riding camel.

A causative use meaning to provide a person with a رَاحِلَة.

• Lane · entry 22778

أَرْحَلَ

Of a camel or camels, to become strong in the back or fat after leanness, so as to be fit for journeying.

The intransitive Form IV use is explained through the appearance of a saddle on the camel's back.

• Lane · entry 22778

أَرْحَلَ

To possess many riding camels.

A lexical use said of a man who has many camels suitable for riding.

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رُحْلَة

Strength and fitness for journeying, especially in a camel; excellence or swiftness of pace.

This vocalization is applied chiefly to a strong, swift, or excellent camel or she-camel.

• Lane · entry 22784

رَحِيل

A camel having a saddle placed upon it.

A nominal description of the saddled animal, distinct from the act of journeying.

• Lane · entry 22787

رِحَالَة

A saddle for a horse, especially a skin saddle used for vehement running; also a vehicle or saddle for men.

The sources differ over whether this vehicle is for men or women; the reported male-only restriction is attributed to one authority and is not treated as universal.

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رِحَالَة

A ewe.

A separately attested dialectal or lexical use; the reduplicated phrase رِحَالَهْ رِحَالَهْ is a call to a ewe while milking.

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الرِّحَالَة

The name of a particular horse of ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl.

A proper-name use, not a general animal meaning.

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رَحَّال

A person skilled in saddling camels.

An intensive nominal adjective describing expertise in handling saddles.

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رَحَّال

A person who travels, journeys, or moves about very frequently.

A separate intensive use describing habitual or extensive travel.

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رَاحِل

One who departs, travels, or journeys.

An active participial description of a person or other traveler.

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رَاحِلَة

A riding camel, male or female, especially one excellent, strong, light, swift, and suitable for carrying burdens.

The feminine ending may intensify the quality rather than restrict the word to female camels; some authorities specifically use it for a she-camel.

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رَاحِلَة

Figuratively, in a poetic phrase, to become hoary and weak or to abandon foolish conduct and become obedient.

A tropical expression based on the movement or obedience of riding camels.

• Lane · entry 22793

رَاحُولَات

Variegated, figured, or embellished camel saddles.

A plural designation for decorated saddles or saddle-like coverings.

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أَرْحَل

Describing an animal marked by a contrasting white or black back at the place of the saddle.

The term is applied to a horse white-backed in the specified pattern and to sheep or goats with the reported contrasting back coloration; the exact color arrangement varies by animal and authority.

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تَرْحِيل

A whiteness, or sometimes redness, on the shoulder blades at the place where a camel's saddle lies.

An animal-color term derived from the saddle location.

• Lane · entry 22797

تَرْحِيلَة

A thing that causes someone to remove, depart, or journey.

A noun of instrument or agency from the causative departure sense.

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مُرْحِل

One who trains and renders a camel or camels fit to be saddled.

An active participle corresponding to the camel-training use of Form IV.

• Lane · entry 22799

مُرْحِل

A man who has many riding camels.

A nominal description of possession of numerous رَوَاحِل.

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مُرْحِل

A camel strong in the back after weakness, or a fat camel.

The description may concern fitness for the saddle or fatness without implying exceptional breed or speed.

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مَرْحَلَة

A travelers' station or place of alighting between two stopping places; also the distance traveled in about a day.

A conventional unit or stage of travel, plural مَرَاحِل.

• Lane · entry 22801

مُرَحَّلَة

Camels with their saddles put upon them or with their saddles taken down.

The word is reported with two contrary applications, distinguished by whether the saddles have been placed or removed.

• Lane · entry 22802

مُرَحَّل

A garment patterned with figures of camels' saddles.

Used especially of a بُرْد or similar cloth bearing saddle designs.

• Lane · entry 22802

مُرْتَحَل

The act of removing or departing.

A verbal-noun use, the opposite of settling or alighting.

• Lane · entry 22804

مُرْتَحَل

A place where one alights, descends, and stops.

A locative use referring to a stopping place during travel.

• Lane · entry 22804

مُرْتَحَل

The place of a camel's saddle or of the saddling of a camel.

A locative use tied specifically to the saddle or the act of placing it.

• Lane · entry 22804

رَحْل

The camel itself, by extension from the saddle or travel equipment associated with it.

A metonymic use recorded in the classical discussion of the noun.

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رَحْل

A dwelling, abode, refuge, or place of resort.

The sense extends from the travel equipment to the place to which one resorts; it also occurs in the fixed insult referring to the place where riders' saddles are thrown down.

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رَحْل

A euphemistic expression for sexual intercourse.

A conventional figurative use based on the related notions of abode and saddle; it is not a literal meaning of the object.

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رَحْلُ الْمُصْحَف

A small stand or desk on which a Qur'an manuscript is placed, shaped somewhat like a saddle.

A technical compound use of رَحْل.

• Lane · entry 22783

رِحَال

Carpets or figured cloths of the fabric associated with al-Ḥīrah.

A plural lexical use distinct from the ordinary plural of saddle or travel equipment.

• Lane · entry 22783

رُحْلَة

A destination or object toward which one departs or repairs; by extension, a noble or learned person whom people visit for need or knowledge.

This destination and person sense is reported with the ḍamma vocalization, distinct from the Qur'anic رِحْلَة meaning journey.

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