رطب

رَطُبَ

To become moist, humid, succulent, soft, tender, fresh, or supple.

The basic intransitive verb for becoming the opposite of dry; the same range may be applied literally to things and figuratively to a person becoming soft or supple.

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رَطُبَ

To become supple or refreshed through repeated use; in an idiom, for the tongue to be enlivened by speaking or mentioning someone, and for the hands to become practiced through handling something useful.

Conventional idiomatic expressions, including رَطُبَ لِسَانِي بِذِكْرِكَ and خُذْ مَا رَطُبَتْ بِهِ يَدَاكَ.

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رَطِبَ

To speak whatever comes to mind, whether correct or mistaken.

A distinct speech-related use of the Form I verb.

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رَطَبَ

To feed a horse or similar animal with fresh fodder or fresh ripe dates.

The verb is used transitively for supplying the animal with رَطْبَة or رُطَب; it may also describe the animal eating what it is given.

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رَطَّبَ

To moisten or make something moist, soft, fresh, or pliant.

A causative Form II use, including moistening cloth or another object.

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رَطَّبَ

To make the tongue supple or refreshed through speaking or mentioning someone.

A conventional figurative construction parallel to the idiomatic use of رَطُبَ.

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رَطَّبَ

To feed people with fresh ripe dates.

A distinct transitive Form II usage in which the object supplied is رُطَب.

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أَرْطَبَ

For dates to ripen, or for palm trees to come to bear fresh ripe dates; for people to have or abound in such dates.

Used of dates reaching the fresh-ripe stage, of palms having such dates, and by extension of people possessing or having an abundance of them.

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أَرْطَبَ

For people or land to become amid, possess, or abound in fresh green herbage.

A Form IV use applied to pasture or vegetation rather than to dates.

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رَطْبٌ

Soft, tender, fresh, green, supple, pliant, or flexible.

A broader adjectival branch applied to such things as food, branches, twigs, plumage, and herbage; the object examples do not restrict the meaning to those classes.

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رَطْبٌ

Fresh or unpreserved produce or provisions that do not keep.

A conventional use for articles such as fruits, herbs, or leguminous plants that are not stored for preservation.

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رَطْبٌ

Soft or supple in a figurative description of a person.

An assumed figurative use, including descriptions of a soft or femininely supple girl, boy, young man, or man.

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رَطْبٌ

Supple or refreshed through speaking or repeated mention.

Used in the conventional expression for a tongue becoming supple or refreshed by mentioning someone.

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رَطْبٌ

In an insulting figurative use, an unchaste or adulterous woman.

A conventional reviling expression applied to a woman or girl.

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رَطْبٌ

Soft, delicate, or easy, said of life.

A figurative adjectival use in the expression عَيْشٌ رَطْبٌ.

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رَطْبٌ

Softly or gently, of recitation.

In the conventional expression قَرَأَ القُرْآنَ رَطْبًا, it describes reciting without a loud voice.

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رَطْبٌ

Figuratively brilliant, smooth, clear, fresh, fragrant, or fine.

A metonymical use: of pearls for their beauty, smooth exterior, and clarity, and of aloes-wood for freshness, fragrance, or fineness rather than literal moisture.

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رُطْبٌ

Fresh, juicy, or green herbage and pasture.

A collective noun for green vegetation, including seasonal pasture, herbs, leguminous plants, shrubs, or trees; dry vegetation is called حَشِيش.

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رَطْبَةٌ

Fresh green fodder, especially trefoil or clover.

Used for a species of fodder while juicy, fresh, or green before drying; secondary reports extend it to a green meadow and to similar fresh produce such as cucumber, melon, or eggplant.

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رُطَبِيٌّ

A seller of fresh ripe dates.

Also attested as a surname derived from this occupation.

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مُرْطِبٌ

Abounding in fresh or moist vegetation.

Used adjectivally of land with abundant رُطْب.

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مَرْطَبَةٌ

A well of sweet water among wells of salt water.

A specialized lexical description of a freshwater well distinguished from surrounding saline wells.

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مَرْطُوبٌ

Fed with fresh fodder or fresh ripe dates.

A passive participial description of an animal fed with رَطْبَة or a person fed with رُطَب.

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مَرْطُوبٌ

Soft or supple, as a quality present in a person.

A figurative adjectival use meaning one possessing softness or suppleness.

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رَطِيبٌ

Soft or smooth.

A distinct adjectival headword for softness or smoothness, not merely an inflectional variant of the Quranic noun.

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