رجع

رَجَعَ

To leave, relinquish, or abandon a thing.

A figurative construction with عَنْ; distinct from simply returning to an earlier place or state.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To turn back against someone or return to attack him.

A construction with إِلَى or عَلَى can express renewed opposition or attack.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To resume communication, return to another's saying, or have recourse to a person or matter.

Includes returning to speaking after silence, returning to an opinion, and recurring or resorting to someone for help.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To claim restitution from, sue, prosecute, or demand one's due from another.

Used with عَلَى and an object such as a partner, debtor, or suspected person.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To take back a gift or repossess something previously given.

A conventional figurative use referring to restoration of possession.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To retract or revoke a statement, judgment, or sentence.

Used with a saying or judgment as the object of retraction.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To trace one's lineage back to an honorable origin.

A figurative construction with إِلَى concerning ancestry or source.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To be reducible or referable to a meaning, word, or grammatical relation.

A technical grammatical and semantic use concerning what an expression refers back to.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To become reduced to a stated quantity.

Used of wine or another liquid after cooking or evaporation.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

For water in a trough or tank to rise back to the level from which it had poured.

A specialized description of water returning to a former height.

• Lane · entry 22594

رِجَاعٌ

The return of migratory birds after leaving for a warmer region.

رِجَاعٌ is a specialized verbal noun for birds returning after migration.

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رَجَعَ

For a she-camel or she-ass to display signs of pregnancy and then fail to fulfill that expectation, or to abort an incompletely formed fetus.

A specialized animal husbandry usage with several reported descriptions.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجْعٌ

The backward-drawing or high lifting of an animal's feet while walking.

A specialized description of an animal's stepping movement.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجْعٌ

To retrace marks, tattooing, or writing and renew their distinctness.

A figurative use of returning over an existing line or inscription.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

To sell one camel or group of camels and acquire others in exchange or with the proceeds.

Reported especially of exchanging males for females, old animals for vigorous ones, or one animal for another.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَعَ

For food or speech to produce an effect or beneficial result in someone or something.

A figurative construction describing an outcome produced by nourishment or words.

• Lane · entry 22594

رَجَّعَ

To cause something to return or move repeatedly; to repeat, reiterate, reproduce, or renew it.

Form II intensifies or iterates the act of returning; it may describe repeated movement to and fro.

• Lane · entry 22595

تَرْجِيعٌ

Repeated or modulated utterance, including repetition in the call to prayer and quavering or trilling of the voice.

Used for repeated professions in the adhan and for vocal reiteration in recitation, singing, or chanting.

• Lane · entry 22595

رَاجَعَ

To return or revert to good or evil.

A Form III use describing a person's reversion in either a favorable or unfavorable direction.

• Lane · entry 22596

رَاجَعَ

For a she-camel to change back from one pace to another.

A specialized animal movement use.

• Lane · entry 22596

رَاجَعَ

For pain or a similar condition to return to someone.

Used of a condition that comes back after departing.

• Lane · entry 22596

رَاجَعَ

To restore a divorced wife or take her back into the marriage.

A conventional marital construction concerning return after divorce.

• Lane · entry 22596

رَاجَعَ

To try to turn someone toward or away from something.

A persuasive or redirecting use, synonymous with attempting to sway someone.

• Lane · entry 22596

رَاجَعَ

To answer back, hold a dialogue or debate, or rebut another's words.

Used for reciprocal speech, consultation, disputation, and repeated address.

• Lane · entry 22596

أَرْجَعَ

For an animal or its condition to return to a former state, especially from leanness to good condition or back again.

A specialized Form IV use describing the reversal of bodily condition.

• Lane · entry 22597

أَرْجَعَ

To give or return an animal to its former owner.

A causative return construction used of handing back a she-camel.

• Lane · entry 22597

أَرْجَعَ

To make a sale productive of profit or gain.

A figurative Form IV use in which a transaction yields a return.

• Lane · entry 22597

أَرْجَعَ

To convert grief or mental distress into happiness or joy.

A figurative causative construction describing a change of emotional state.

• Lane · entry 22597

أَرْجَعَ

To extend an arm or hand backward to reach or take hold of something.

Usually understood with the hand or arm as the object or instrument.

• Lane · entry 22597

أَرْجَعَ

To eject excrement.

A specialized bodily use reported of a man.

• Lane · entry 22597

تَرَجَّعَ

To move or become agitated to and fro in the mind or bosom.

A figurative Form V use synonymous with wavering or recurring movement in thought.

• Lane · entry 22598

تَرَاجَعَ

To recede, retreat, or return gradually, by degrees or little by little.

Form VI marks a gradual or continuing reciprocal or self-directed change.

• Lane · entry 22599

تَرَاجَعَ

For circumstances to revert gradually, whether by improving toward a former condition or deteriorating into a worse one.

Used of changing conditions, fortunes, and recovery from illness.

• Lane · entry 22599

تَرَاجَعَ

For two parties to make reciprocal claims for restitution.

A reciprocal legal or financial construction.

• Lane · entry 22599

تَرَاجَعَ

For people to exchange answers, debate, or hold a dialogue with one another.

A reciprocal speech construction equivalent to mutual conversation or disputation.

• Lane · entry 22599

اِرْتَجَعَ

To seek restitution from or prosecute a debtor or suspected person.

A Form VIII construction with عَلَى, synonymous with the corresponding legal use of رَجَعَ.

• Lane · entry 22600

اِرْتَجَعَ

To put something back, restore it, or take it back into one's possession.

Includes putting a garment back over the face and recovering a gift or other possession.

• Lane · entry 22600
• Lane · entry 22601

اِرْتَجَعَ

To obtain a good return or profit from an exchange or sale.

Used when selling one group of camels yields a favorable replacement or result.

• Lane · entry 22600

اِرْتَجَعَ

To purchase camels not of one's own breeding or bearing one's marks, commonly in exchange for others.

A specialized desert-Arabian camel-trading use.

• Lane · entry 22600

اِسْتَرْجَعَ

For food to yield a wholesome or profitable result after being eaten.

A specialized passive construction concerning nourishment and its beneficial effect.

• Lane · entry 22601

اِسْتَرْجَعَ

To utter the formula إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ upon a calamity or misfortune.

A conventional religious use expressing belonging to God and eventual return to Him.

• Lane · entry 22601

رَجْعٌ

Hail, understood as giving back the water it receives.

A specialized figurative extension of the return of water.

• Lane · entry 22602

رَجْعٌ

Thunder.

A rare attributed lexical interpretation.

• Lane · entry 22602

رَجْعٌ

A pool, water, water-retaining hollow, or tract where a torrent spreads or returns.

Includes a pool left by a torrent, water fluctuating in place, and related landscape terms.

• Lane · entry 22602

رَجْعٌ

Herbage of the spring or rainy season, recurring year after year.

A figurative use based on seasonal recurrence.

• Lane · entry 22602

رَجْعٌ

The membrane emerging over an infant's head during childbirth.

A specialized anatomical meaning.

• Lane · entry 22602

رَجْعٌ

The returning action of a sword as it penetrates and is drawn back from what it strikes.

Occurs in a specialized description of a sword's penetration and withdrawal.

• Lane · entry 22602

رَجْعَةٌ

A return or a single act of returning, going back, or reverting.

The noun denotes one occurrence of return and may also be used generally for returning.

• Lane · entry 22606

رَجْعَةٌ

Return to earthly existence after death.

A doctrinal or traditional term for postmortem return.

• Lane · entry 22606

رَجْعَةٌ

The homeward course or return of a military expedition.

Contrasted with the beginning or outward departure of an expedition.

• Lane · entry 22606

رَجْعَةٌ

The return of warriors to battle after coming back from an expedition.

A specialized military use.

• Lane · entry 22606

رَجْعَةٌ

A divorced husband's right or act of restoring his wife to the marriage.

A legal marital term for revocable divorce and return without a new contract.

• Lane · entry 22606

رَجْعَةٌ

The reply or answer to an epistle, statement, or volley of arrows.

Used for a written response and, figuratively, for what is returned in opposition or reply.

• Lane · entry 22606

رِجْعَةٌ

A favorable replacement or return obtained by exchanging or selling camels and acquiring better ones.

Includes exchanges in which old animals are replaced by vigorous ones or males by females.

• Lane · entry 22608

رِجْعَةٌ

Any return, increase, profit, or gain accruing from a thing, sale, or exchange.

A figurative commercial use for a beneficial return.

• Lane · entry 22608

رِجْعَةٌ

An argument, allegation, proof, or evidence used to rebut an opponent.

A specialized argumentative use.

• Lane · entry 22608

رِجَاعٌ

The nose-rein of a camel, or the part resting on its nose.

A concrete noun derived from the act of putting the rein back in place.

• Lane · entry 22613

رَجِيعٌ

Something returned, sent back, repeated, reiterated, reproduced, renewed, or rebutted.

Applied to an object, act, or utterance; with speech it can mean returned to its author, repeated, or rejected in reply.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

An animal, especially a camel, repeatedly taken from journey to journey; by extension, one fatigued or lean from travel.

Also applied to a person or to a journey involving repeated returnings.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

Food returned to the fire for reheating, especially meat heated a second time.

A concrete use based on food being returned for another heating.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

A rope or cord undone and twisted again.

Also extended to anything done a second time.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

Writing retraced with the pen, or tattooing renewed to restore its blackness.

A figurative use for repeated or renewed marking.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

Dung or excrement, especially of a solid-hoofed animal, person, or beast of prey.

Explained as what has returned from food or fodder to a later state.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

The cud returned for rumination.

Applied to cud because it returns to be chewed and eaten again.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

Sweat.

A figurative explanation derives it from water returning as sweat.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

The axe-like part of a bit.

A rare technical extension associated with returning motion.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعٌ

Niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious.

A rare adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 22614

رَجِيعَةٌ

A she-camel purchased with the price of another, or a female purchased with the price of a male.

A specialized camel-trading term; it can also denote a camel brought from another district for sale.

• Lane · entry 22616

رَجَّاعٌ

One who returns often to God.

An intensive adjectival form describing frequent religious return.

• Lane · entry 22617

رَاجِعٌ

A woman who returns to her family after her husband's death or after divorce.

A specialized feminine social designation despite the masculine-form citation.

• Lane · entry 22618

رَاجِعٌ

A she-camel that appears pregnant but is later found not to be pregnant, or fails to fulfill the expected pregnancy.

A specialized animal term for a return from an expected result.

• Lane · entry 22618

رَاجِعٌ

A sick person whose vitality or health has returned after severe illness.

A specialized active-participial description of recovery.

• Lane · entry 22618

رَاجِعَةٌ

A watercourse of a valley.

A figurative feminine noun associated with water returning or flowing back.

• Lane · entry 22619

رَاجِعَةٌ

Varying or shifting winds.

The plural denotes winds characterized by coming and going.

• Lane · entry 22619

رَاجِعَةٌ

The leaves or panels of doors.

A specialized plural usage.

• Lane · entry 22619

أَرْجَعُ

More productive of return, profit, or gain.

A comparative adjective used of a commodity or transaction.

• Lane · entry 22620

مَرْجِعٌ

A recourse or source to which one turns.

A figurative extension of return and referral, distinct from the Quranic final-destination use.

• Lane · entry 22621

مَرْجِعٌ

The anatomical place to which a shoulder blade or elbow returns, including the lower shoulder-blade region near the armpit.

A specialized anatomical term.

• Lane · entry 22621

مَرْجِعٌ

The place or thing to which something is referred as its source.

A figurative reference or source use.

• Lane · entry 22621

مُرْجِعٌ

A she-camel becoming sound and well-conditioned after leanness.

An active-participial Form IV specialization.

• Lane · entry 22622

مُرْجِعٌ

A commodity that yields a return, profit, or gain.

A figurative active-participial commercial use.

• Lane · entry 22622

مُرْجِعَةٌ

A journey having a recompense, reward, or good result.

A figurative description of a journey that produces a favorable outcome.

• Lane · entry 22622