Mashrabaمشربة

رفعThe opposite of placing down: to raise, lift, or elevate. (root rf)

الراء والفاء والعين أصل واحد يدل على خلاف الوضع تقول رفعت الشيء رفعا وهو خلاف الخفض ومرفوع الناقة في سيرها خلاف الموضوع …

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

رفع
Patterns computed · our data

The words of ر ف ع that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

29 words7 verbs8 verbal nouns3 participles2 places and instruments3 intensives and elatives5 other nouns1 plural

  • رَفَعَhe raised it
  • رَفِيعhigh, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent, in rank, condition, or state
  • أَرْفَعhigher, or more elevated
  • رَفْعraising; lifting
  • اِرْتَفَعَit became raised
The whole family7 groups, by pattern; tap a pattern to see what it does
Verbs7رَفَعَ · اِرْتَفَعَ · رَفَّعَ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

Form I vowels: فَعَلَ يَفْعَلُ (a – a; the imperfect from Lane's “aor.”)

Verbal nouns8رَفْع · رُفْعَان · رِفْعَة

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

  • رَفْعraising; liftingautoForm I · Lane: inf. n.library ×6LaneIbn Fāris
  • رُفْعَانForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • رِفْعَةhigh, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent, rank or condition or stateLaneForm I · Lane: inf. n.library ×1Lane
  • مَرْفُوعForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
Participles3رَافِع · مَرْفُوع · مُرْتَفِع

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

Place, time and instrument2مَرْفَع · مِرْفَع

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَرْفَعplace of elevationLanenoun of place or timeLane
  • مِرْفَعthing with which one raises, elevates, or takes upLanenoun of instrumentLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative3رَفِيع · أَرْفَع · رَفَّاع

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • رَفِيعhigh, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent, in rank, condition, or stateLanequality (faʿīl)Qurʾān ×1library ×6Lane
  • أَرْفَعhigher, or more elevatedLaneelative or colour adjective (afʿal)library ×7Lane
  • رَفَّاعone who traces up traditions to the Prophet, or to his CompanionsLaneintensive (faʿʿāl)LaneIbn Fāris
Other nouns5رَفَاع · رِفَاع · رَفِيعَة

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

  • رَفَاعnounLaneIbn Fāris
  • رِفَاعnounLaneIbn Fāris
  • رَفِيعَةcase which one communicates, or makes known, to the administrator of the lawLanenounLane
  • رُفَاعَةstring whereby he who is shackled raises his shackles , to which that …LanenounLane
  • رِفَاعَةnounLane
Plurals1رَفَائِع

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • رَفَائِعbroken plural of رُفَاعَةLane
Why this shape?What each of the 19 patterns does

What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.

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مَفْعَلَةر ف عمَرْفَعَة

Not in our sources. A possible shape, not a word we can show: the Quran, the library and Lane do not have it for this root.

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
About thisWhat “attested” means here; the sources

Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

English: AI translation
  • al-Khalīl · 170Rafaʿtuhu rafʿan fa-rtafaʿa (رفعته رفعا فارتفع), 'I raised it and it rose.' Barq rāfiʿ (برق رافع) means 'gleaming, radiant lightning,' as [the poet] said: "Alas — did it not grieve you, a sickly wind, and lightning gleam

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    Rafaʿtuhu rafʿan fa-rtafaʿa (رفعته رفعا فارتفع), 'I raised it and it rose.' Barq rāfiʿ (برق رافع) means 'gleaming, radiant lightning,' as [the poet] said: "Alas — did it not grieve you, a sickly wind, and lightning gleaming brightly (rāfiʿ) over the two ʿAqīqs?" Al-marfūʿ (المرفوع), of the gait of a horse or working-horse, is [a pace] below full gallop (ḥuḍr) and above al-mawḍūʿ (normal pace). One says: 'irfaʿ min dābbatika (ارفع من دابتك)' — this is how the Arabs speak. Rafaʿa al-rajulu yarfaʿu rafāʿatan (رفع الرجل يرفع رفاعة), so he is rafīʿ (رفيع) [i.e., if he attains nobility], and a woman is rafīʿah (رفيعة). The donkey 'raises' (yarfaʿu) in its running, tarfīʿan ([meaning] it runs) a run in which some stretches are faster than others; likewise, if you take something and lift the first part [ahead of the rest], you say rafaʿtuhu tarfīʿan (رفعته ترفيعا). Al-rafʿ (الرفع) is the opposite of al-khafḍ (lowering). [The poet] said: "So submit, and do not deny your Lord's power, for God lowers whom He wills and raises [whom He wills]." Al-rifʿah (الرفعة) is the opposite of dhillah (abasement). Al-rifāʿah (الرفاعة), al-ʿiẓāmah (العظامة), and al-zanjabah [الزنجبة] are things by which a woman pads out her buttocks to make them appear larger.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    رفعته رفعا فارتفع. وبرق رافع، أي: ساطع، قال «29» : أصاح ألم يحزنك ريح مريضة ... وبرق تلالا بالعقيقين رافع والمرفوع من حضر الفرس والبرذون دون الحضر وفوق الموضوع. يقال: ارفع من دابتك، هكذا كلام العرب. ورفع الرجل يرفع رفاعة فهو رفيع [إذا شرف] «30» وامرأة رفيعة. والحمار يرفع في عدوه ترفيعا: [أي: عدا] «31» عدوا بعضه أرفع من بعض. كذلك لو أخذت شيئا فرفعت الأول فالأول قلت: رفعته ترفيعا. والرفع: نقيض الخفض. قال «32» : فاخضع ولا تنكر لربك قدرة ... فالله يخفض من يشاء ويرفع والرفعة نقيض الذلة. والرفاعة والعظامة و [الزنجبة] «33» : شيء تعظم به المرأة عجيزتها.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Al-rafʿ (الرفع): the opposite of al-waḍʿ (الوضع, placing down).

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Al-rafʿ (الرفع): the opposite of al-waḍʿ (الوضع, placing down). One says: rafaʿtuhu fa-rtafaʿa (رفعته فارتفع), 'I raised it and it rose.' Al-rafʿ in grammatical inflection (iʿrāb) is like ḍamm in fixed (indeclinable) forms — this is one of the grammarians' conventions. 'Rafaʿa fulānun ʿalā al-ʿāmil rafīʿatan (رفع فلان على العامل رفيعة)' — so-and-so raised a report against the official, which is what he submits and conveys of his case. In the ḥadīth: 'kullu rāfiʿatin rafaʿat ʿalaynā min al-balāgh (كل رافعة رفعت علينا من البلاغ),' meaning every group conveying [word] on our behalf should convey: 'I have declared Medina sacred.' Rafʿ al-zarʿ (رفع الزرع) is carrying the crop after harvest to the threshing floor. One says: 'these are the days of rifāʿ or rifāʿ (رفاع)' [with different vocalization]. Al-Kisāʾī said: 'I heard al-jirām and al-jirām, and their like, [with both vocalizations], except al-rifāʿ, which I never heard with kasr.' Rafaʿa al-baʿīru fī al-sayr (رفع البعير في السير) means 'it exerted itself [went hard],' and rafaʿtuhu anā (رفعته أنا) — the verb is both transitive and intransitive. Marfūʿuhā (مرفوعها) is the opposite of mawḍūʿuhā (موضوعها). It is said: 'a mount has no marfūʿ,' this being a verbal noun like al-majlūd and al-maʿqūl, meaning a pace short of full gallop (ḥuḍr). Ṭarafah said: "Her mawḍūʿ (ordinary pace) is nimble, and her marfūʿ (accelerated pace) is like a downpour, thundering, amid wind." And likewise rafaʿtuhu tarfīʿan (رفعته ترفيعا). Al-rafʿ (الرفع) is 'your bringing something near.' His saying, exalted is He: 'wa-furushin marfūʿah (وفرش مرفوعة)' — they said: 'brought near to them.' From this comes rafaʿtuhu ilā al-sulṭān (رفعته إلى السلطان), whose verbal noun is al-rifʿān (الرفعان). Al-Farrāʾ said: 'wa-furushin marfūʿah' means 'some above others.' One says: 'nisāʾ mukramāt (نساء مكرمات),' from the saying 'wa-Allāhu yarfaʿu man yashāʾu wa-yakhfiḍ (والله يرفع من يشاء ويخفض),' 'God raises whom He wills and lowers [whom He wills].' A she-camel is rāfiʿ (رافع) when she raises the beestings in her udder — according to al-Aṣmaʿī. Al-rifāʿah (الرفاعة), with ḍamm, is what a flat-buttocked woman uses to enlarge herself. Rifāʿat al-muqayyad (رفاعة المقيد) is also a cord by which the shackled man lifts his shackle toward himself. Ibn al-Sikkīt said: one says 'fī ṣawtihi rifāʿatun wa-rafāʿatun (في صوته رفاعة ورفاعة),' with ḍamm and fatḥ. A man is rafīʿ (رفيع), i.e., noble. Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī said: 'They did not say rafuʿa (رفع).' Others said: 'rafuʿa rifʿatan (رفع رفعة),' meaning 'his standing rose.' Rāfaʿtu fulānan ilā al-ḥākim (رافعت فلانا إلى الحاكم) and tarāfaʿnā ilayhi (ترافعنا إليه). Rifāʿah (رفاعة), with kasr, is a man's name.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الرفع: خلاف الوضع. يقال: رفعته فارتفع. والرفع في الإعراب كالضم في البناء، وهو من أوضاع النحويين. ورفع فلان على العامل رفيعة، وهو ما يرفعه من قصته ويبلغها. وفى الحديث: " كل رافعة رفعت علينا من البلاغ "، أي كل جماعة مبلغة تبلغ عنا " فلتبلغ أنى قد حرمت المدينة ". ورفع الزرع: أن يحمل بعد الحصاد إلى البيدر. يقال: هذه أيام رفاع ورفاع. قال الكسائي: سمعت الجرام والجرام وأخواتها، إلا الرفاع فإنى لم أسمعها مكسورة. ورفع البعير في السير، أي بالغ. ورفعته أنا، يتعدى ولا يتعدى. ومرفوعها: خلاف موضوعها. يقال: دابة ليس له مرفوع، وهو مصدر مثل المجلود والمعقول، وهو عدو دون الحضر. قال طرفة: موضوعها زول ومرفوعها * كمر صوب لجب وسط ريح * وكذلك رفعته ترفيعا والرفع: تقريبك الشئ. وقوله تعالى: {وفرش مرفوعة} ، قالوا: مقربة لهم. ومن ذلك رفعته إلى السلطان، ومصدره الرفعان. وقال الفراء: {وفرش مرفوعة} : بعضها فوق بعض. ويقال: نساء مكرمات، من قولك والله يرفع من يشاء ويخفض. وناقة رافع، إذا رفعت اللبأ في ضرعها، عن الاصمعي. والرفاعة بالضم: ما تتعظم به المرأة الرسحاء. ورفاعة المقيد أيضا: خيط يرفع به قيده إليه. قال ابن السكيت: يقال في صوته رفاعة ورفاعة، بالضم والفتح. ورجل رفيع، أي شريف. قال أبو بكر محمد بن السري: ولم يقولوا رفع. وقال غيره: رفع رفعة، أي ارتفع قدره. ورافعت فلانا إلى الحاكم وترافعنا إليه. ورفاعة بالكسر: اسم رجل (1) .

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Rāʾ, fāʾ, and ʿayn (ر ف ع): a single root indicating the opposite of placing/setting down.

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    Rāʾ, fāʾ, and ʿayn (ر ف ع): a single root indicating the opposite of placing/setting down. You say rafaʿtu al-shayʾa rafʿan (رفعت الشيء رفعا), 'I raised/lifted the thing,' which is the opposite of khafḍ (lowering). Marfūʿ al-nāqah (مرفوع الناقة) in her gait is the opposite of mawḍūʿ (موضوع, her normal pace). Ṭarafah said: "Her mawḍūʿ (ordinary pace) is nimble, and her marfūʿ (accelerated pace) is like a downpour, thundering, amid wind." It is said: rafaʿa al-baʿīr (رفع البعير), 'the camel quickened,' and rafaʿtuhu anā (رفعته أنا), 'I made it quicken.' From this root also comes al-rafʿ (الرفع) meaning 'bringing a thing near.' God, exalted be His praise, said: "wa-furushin marfūʿah (وفرش مرفوعة)" [al-Baqarah 34, as cited], meaning 'brought near to them.' From this comes the saying rafaʿtuhu lil-sulṭān (رفعته للسلطان), 'I brought his matter before the ruler,' whose verbal noun is al-rifʿān (الرفعان). It is said of a she-camel when she raises the beestings in her udder: hiya rāfiʿ (هي رافع). Al-rafʿ (الرفع) also means 'spreading and disclosing a thing.' From this is the ḥadīth in which the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, said: 'kullu rāfiʿatin rafaʿat ʿalaynā min al-balāghi faqad ḥarramtuhā (كل رافعة رفعت علينا من البلاغ فقد حرمتها),' meaning 'every group conveying [word] on our behalf should convey that I have declared Medina sacred.' This is like their saying 'rafaʿa fulānun ʿalā al-ʿāmil (رفع فلان على العامل)' — so-and-so lodged a report against the official — which is when he spreads news of him. And rafʿ al-zarʿ (رفع الزرع) is the carrying of the crop after harvest to the threshing floor; one says 'these are the days of al-rifāʿ (الرفاع).' (rafgh, رفغ): The letters rāʾ, fāʾ, and ghayn form a word indicating lowliness and baseness. Al-rafgh (الرفغ) is the vilest part of a valley, worst in soil, and al-rafgh is also the root of the thigh, and any place where filth collects. In the ḥadīth: 'kayfa lā awhamu wa-rafghu aḥadikum bayna ẓufrihi wa-anmulatihi (كيف لا أوهم ورفغ أحدكم بين ظفره وأنملته),' 'How could I not err, when the rafgh [grime] of one of you lies between his nail and fingertip?' Al-arfāgh (الأرفاغ) refers to the lowly among people. As for their saying ʿaysh rāfigh (عيش رافغ) and rafīgh (رفيغ), meaning 'a pleasant, abundant life,' this has two possible explanations: either the ghayn is a substitution for hāʾ, making it derive from al-rafah (الرفه, ease/comfort); or it is likened, on account of its abundance, to the rafgh of soil, intending thereby abundance.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الراء والفاء والعين أصل واحد يدل على خلاف الوضع تقول رفعت الشيء رفعا وهو خلاف الخفض ومرفوع الناقة في سيرها خلاف الموضوع قال طرفة — موضوعها زول ومرفوعها … كمر صوب لجب وسط ريح … يقال رفع البعير ورفعته أنا ومن الباب الرفع تقريب الشيء قال الله جل ثناؤه : ( وفرش مرفوعة البقرة34 ) أي مقربة لهم ومن ذلك قوله رفعته للسلطان ومصدر ذلك الرفعان ويقال للناقة إذا رفعت اللبأ في ضرعها هي رافع والرفع إذاعة الشيء وإظهاره ومنه الحديث قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : ( كل رافعة رفعت علينا من البلاغ فقد حرمتها ) أي كل جماعة مبلغة تبلغ عنا فلتبلغ أني حرمت المدينة وذلك كقولهم رفع فلان على العامل وذلك إذا أذاع خبره ورفع الزرع أن يحمل بعد الحصاد إلى البيدر يقال هذه أيام الرفاع ( رفغ ) الراء والفاء والغين كلمة تدل على ضعة ودناءة فالرفغ ألأم الوادي وشره ترابا والرفغ أصل الفخذ وكل موضع اجتمع فيه الوسخ وفي الحديث : ( كيف لا أوهم ورفغ أحدكم بين ظفره وأنملته ) والأرفاغ من الناس السفلة فأما قولهم عيش رافغ ورفيغ طيب واسع فهذا له وجهان إما أن يكون الغين منقلبة عن الهاء فيكون من الرفه وإما أن يكون شبه ماله في كثرته برفغ التراب يراد به الكثرة

  • al-Rāghib · 502Al-rafʿ (الرفع) is used sometimes of physical bodies that have been placed, when you elevate them from their resting place, as in: "wa-rafaʿnā fawqakumu al-ṭūr (ورفعنا فوقكم الطور)" [Qur'an, al-Baqarah 93], 'And We raise

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    Al-rafʿ (الرفع) is used sometimes of physical bodies that have been placed, when you elevate them from their resting place, as in: "wa-rafaʿnā fawqakumu al-ṭūr (ورفعنا فوقكم الطور)" [Qur'an, al-Baqarah 93], 'And We raised the mount above you.' He, exalted, said: "Allāhu alladhī rafaʿa al-samāwāti bi-ghayri ʿamadin tarawnahā (الله الذي رفع السماوات بغير عمد ترونها)" [al-Raʿd 2], 'God, who raised the heavens without pillars you can see.' Sometimes it is used of building, when you make it tall, as in His saying: "wa-idh yarfaʿu Ibrāhīmu al-qawāʿida min al-bayt (وإذ يرفع إبراهيم القواعد من البيت)" [al-Baqarah 127], 'And when Abraham raised the foundations of the House.' Sometimes it is used of mention/renown, when you elevate it, as in His saying: "wa-rafaʿnā laka dhikraka (ورفعنا لك ذكرك)" [al-Sharḥ 4], 'And We raised for you your renown.' Sometimes it is used of rank, when you ennoble it, as in His saying: "wa-rafaʿnā baʿḍahum fawqa baʿḍin darajātin (ورفعنا بعضهم فوق بعض درجات)" [al-Zukhruf 32], 'And We raised some of them above others in degrees'; "narfaʿu darajātin man nashāʾ (نرفع درجات من نشاء)" [Yūsuf 76], 'We raise in degrees whom We will'; "rafīʿu al-darajāti dhū al-ʿarsh (رفيع الدرجات ذو العرش)" [Ghāfir 15], 'Exalted in degrees, Possessor of the Throne.' And His saying, exalted is He: "bal rafaʿahu Allāhu ilayhi (بل رفعه الله إليه)" [al-Nisāʾ 158], 'Rather, God raised him to Himself,' may bear the sense of raising him to heaven, or raising him in rank/honor. He said: "khāfiḍatun rāfiʿah (خافضة رافعة)" [al-Wāqiʿah 3], 'Bringing low, raising high.' And His saying: "wa-ilā al-samāʾi kayfa rufiʿat (وإلى السماء كيف رفعت)" [al-Ghāshiyah 18], 'And the sky — how it was raised,' points to both meanings: the elevation of its place, and what it has been singled out for of excellence and nobility of rank. His saying, mighty and majestic is He: "wa-furushin marfūʿah (وفرش مرفوعة)" [al-Wāqiʿah 34], means 'noble/exalted,' and likewise His saying: "fī ṣuḥufin mukarramatin marfūʿatin muṭahharah (في صحف مكرمة مرفوعة مطهرة)" [ʿAbasa 13–14], 'in honored, exalted, purified scrolls.' And His saying: "fī buyūtin adhina Allāhu an turfaʿa (في بيوت أذن الله أن ترفع)" [al-Nūr 36], means 'to be ennobled,' similar to His saying: "innamā yurīdu Allāhu li-yudhhiba ʿankumu al-rijsa ahla al-bayt (إنما يريد الله ليذهب عنكم الرجس أهل البيت)" [al-Aḥzāb 33]. It is said: rafaʿa al-baʿīru fī sayrihi (رفع البعير في سيره), 'the camel exerted itself in its gait,' and rafaʿtuhu anā (رفعته أنا), 'I urged it to do so.' Marfūʿ al-sayr (مرفوع السير) means 'a hard/fast gait.' Rafaʿa fulānun ʿalā fulānin kadhā (رفع فلان على فلان كذا) means 'he disclosed news of what [the other] had concealed.' Al-rifāʿah (الرفاعة) is what a woman uses to enlarge her buttocks, similar to al-mirfad (المرفد).

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    الرفع يقال تارة في الأجسام الموضوعة إذا أعليتها عن مقرها، نحو: ورفعنا فوقكم الطور [البقرة/ 93] ، قال تعالى: الله الذي رفع السماوات بغير عمد ترونها [الرعد/ 2] ، وتارة في البناء إذا طولته، نحو قوله: وإذ يرفع إبراهيم القواعد من البيت [البقرة/ 127] ، وتارة في الذكر إذا نوهته نحو قوله: ورفعنا لك ذكرك [الشرح/ 4] ، وتارة في المنزلة إذا شرفتها، نحو قوله: ورفعنا بعضهم فوق بعض درجات [الزخرف/ 32] ، نرفع درجات من نشاء [يوسف/ 76] ، رفيع الدرجات ذو العرش [غافر/ 15] ، وقوله تعالى: بل رفعه الله إليه [النساء/ 158] ، يحتمل رفعه إلى السماء، ورفعه من حيث التشريف. وقال تعالى: خافضة رافعة [الواقعة/ 3] ، وقوله: وإلى السماء كيف رفعت [الغاشية/ 18] ، فإشارة إلى المعنيين: إلى إعلاء مكانه، وإلى ما خص به من الفضيلة وشرف المنزلة. وقوله عز وجل: وفرش مرفوعة [الواقعة/ 34] ، أي: شريفة، وكذا قوله: في صحف مكرمة مرفوعة مطهرة [عبس/ 13- 14] ، وقوله: في بيوت أذن الله أن ترفع [النور/ 36] ، أي: تشرف، وذلك نحو قوله: إنما يريد الله ليذهب عنكم الرجس أهل البيت [الأحزاب/ 33] ، ويقال: رفع البعير في سيره، ورفعته أنا، ومرفوع السير: شديدة، ورفع فلان على فلان كذا: أذاع خبر ما احتجبه، والرفاعة: ما ترفع به المرأة عجيزتها، نحو: المرفد.

  • Lisān · 711Among the names of God, exalted, is al-Rāfiʿ (الرافع): He who raises the believer by granting felicity, and raises His close friends by drawing them near.

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Among the names of God, exalted, is al-Rāfiʿ (الرافع): He who raises the believer by granting felicity, and raises His close friends by drawing them near. Al-rafʿ (الرفع) is the opposite of al-waḍʿ (الوضع). Rafaʿtuhu fa-rtafaʿa (رفعته فارتفع), so it is the opposite of al-khafḍ (خفض) in every sense. Rafaʿahu yarfaʿuhu rafʿan (رفعه يرفعه رفعا), and rafuʿa huwa rifāʿatan (رفع هو رفاعة) wa-rtafaʿa (وارتفع). Al-marfaʿ (المرفع) is that by which a thing is raised. His saying, exalted, describing the Resurrection: "khāfiḍatun rāfiʿah (خافضة رافعة)" — al-Zajjāj said: the meaning is that it lowers the people of disobedience and raises the people of obedience. In the ḥadīth: 'inna Allāha taʿālā yarfaʿu al-ʿadla wa-yakhfiḍuhu (إن الله تعالى يرفع العدل ويخفضه)' — al-Azharī said: its meaning is that He raises justice, elevating it over injustice and its people, and at other times lowers it, letting the people of injustice prevail over the people of justice, as a trial for His creatures — this is in this world, while the [good] outcome belongs to the God-fearing. It is said: irtafaʿa al-shayʾu irtifāʿan (ارتفع الشيء ارتفاعا) by itself, when it rises. In the Nawādir it is said: irtafaʿa al-shayʾu bi-yadihi (ارتفع الشيء بيده) and rafaʿahu (رفعه). Al-Azharī said: what is well established in the speech of the Arabs is rafaʿtu al-shayʾa fa-rtafaʿa (رفعت الشيء فارتفع); I have not heard irtafaʿa used transitively in the sense of rafaʿa except in what I read in the Nawādir al-Aʿrāb. Al-rifāʿah (الرفاعة), with ḍamm, is a garment by which a flat-buttocked woman enlarges her buttocks to make them appear larger; its plural is al-rafāʾiʿ (الرفائع). Al-Rāʿī said: "Broad-flanked as sand-grouse, they do not resort to al-rafāʾiʿ (padding)." Al-rifāʿ (الرفاع) is a cord tied to the shackle, which the shackled man holds in his hand to lift it toward himself. Rifāʿat al-muqayyad (رفاعة المقيد) is a cord by which one raises one's shackle toward oneself. Al-rāfiʿ (الرافع) among camels is she that has raised the beestings in her udder. Al-Azharī said: of the she-camel that has raised her milk without it becoming clear [as beestings], it is said rāfiʿ, with rāʾ; as for al-dāfiʿ (الدافع), that is she that has pushed the beestings down into her udder. Al-rafʿ (الرفع) is your bringing something near to something else. In the revelation: "wa-furushin marfūʿah (وفرش مرفوعة)" means 'brought near to them,' and from this comes rafaʿtuhu ilā al-sulṭān (رفعته إلى السلطان), whose verbal noun is al-rifʿān (الرفعان), with ḍamm. Al-Farrāʾ said: "wa-furushin marfūʿah" means 'some above others.' One says: 'nisāʾ marfūʿāt (نساء مرفوعات),' meaning 'ennobled,' from the saying 'inna Allāha yarfaʿu man yashāʾu wa-yakhfiḍ (إن الله يرفع من يشاء ويخفض).' Rafaʿa al-sarābu al-shakhṣa yarfaʿuhu rafʿan (رفع السراب الشخص يرفعه رفعا): zahāhu (زهاه) — 'the mirage made the figure loom/appear elevated.' Rafaʿa lī al-shayʾu (رفع لي الشيء): 'I glimpsed it from afar,' as in the verse: "How keen-sighted was I once in the tracks of youthful passion — but today, indeed, the phantoms have been raised (rufiʿat) for me," it is said this means 'made distant,' because I see the near as far; but it is also transmitted 'shufiʿat li al-ashbāḥ (شفعت لي الأشباح)' meaning 'I see the figure doubled, due to weak eyesight' — and this is the more correct reading, for he says afterward: "and beside the figure walked another figure like it, while the land, its forms remote, lay open and bare." Rāfaʿtu fulānan ilā al-ḥākim (رافعت فلانا إلى الحاكم) and tarāfaʿnā ilayhi (ترافعنا إليه), and rafaʿahu ilā al-ḥukmi rafʿan wa-rifʿānan wa-rufʿānan (رفعه إلى الحكم رفعا ورفعانا ورفعانا): 'he brought him near to it and presented him before it for judgment,' and rafaʿtu qiṣṣatī (رفعت قصتي): 'I submitted my case.' The poet said: "and they put forward (rafaʿū) for the thrust the sons of Madhḥij," meaning: 'they set them forward for war.' And al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī's saying: 'wa-rafaʿtuhu (ورفعته)...' [entry continues]

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    في أسماء الله تعالى الرافع: هو الذي يرفع المؤمن بالإسعاد وأولياءه بالتقريب. والرفع: ضد الوضع، رفعته فارتفع فهو نقيض الخفض في كل شيء، رفعه يرفعه رفعا ورفع هو رفاعة وارتفع. والمرفع: ما رفع به. وقوله تعالى في صفة القيامة: خافضة رافعة ؛ قال الزجاج: المعنى أنها تخفض أهل المعاصي وترفع أهل الطاعة. وفي الحديث: إن الله تعالى يرفع العدل ويخفضه ؛ قال الأزهري: معناه أنه يرفع القسط وهو العدل فيعليه على الجور وأهله، ومرة يخفضه فيظهر أهل الجور على أهل العدل ابتلاء لخلقه، وهذا في الدنيا والعاقبة للمتقين. ويقال: ارتفع الشيء ارتفاعا بنفسه إذا علا. وفي النوادر: يقال ارتفع الشيء بيده ورفعه. قال الأزهري: المعروف في كلام العرب رفعت الشيء فارتفع، ولم أسمع ارتفع واقعا بمعنى رفع إلا ما قرأته في نوادر الأعراب. والرفاعة، بالضم، ثوب ترفع به المرأة الرسحاء عجيزتها تعظمها به، والجمع الرفائع؛ قال الراعي: عراض القطا لا يتخذن الرفائعا والرفاع: حبل «1» يشد في القيد يأخذه المقيد بيده يرفعه إليه. ورفاعة المقيد: خيط يرفع به قيده إليه. والرافع من الإبل: التي رفعت اللبأ في ضرعها؛ قال الأزهري: يقال للتي رفعت لبنها فلم تدر رافع، بالراء، فأما الدافع فهي التي دفعت اللبأ في ضرعها. والرفع تقريبك الشيء من الشيء. وفي التنزيل: وفرش مرفوعة ؛ أي مقربة لهم، ومن ذلك رفعته إلى السلطان، ومصدره الرفعان، بالضم؛ وقال الفراء: وفرش مرفوعة أي بعضها فوق بعض. ويقال: نساء مرفوعات أي مكرمات من قولك إن الله يرفع من يشاء ويخفض. ورفع السراب الشخص يرفعه رفعا: زهاه. ورفع لي الشيء: أبصرته من بعد؛ وقوله: ما كان أبصرني بغرات الصبا، ... فاليوم قد رفعت لي الأشباح قيل: بوعدت لأني أرى القريب بعيدا، ويروى: قد شفعت لي الأشباح أي أرى الشخص اثنين لضعف بصري، وهو الأصح، لأنه يقول بعد هذا: ومشى بجنب الشخص شخص مثله، ... والأرض نائية الشخوص براح ورافعت فلانا إلى الحاكم وترافعنا إليه ورفعه إلى الحكم رفعا ورفعانا ورفعانا: قربه منه وقدمه إليه ليحاكمه، ورفعت قصتي: قدمتها؛ قال الشاعر: وهم رفعوا للطعن أبناء مذحج أي قدموهم للحرب؛ وقول النابغة الذبياني: ورفعته إلى السجفين فالنضد «1» أي بلغت بالحفر وقدمته إلى موضع السجفين، وهما سترا رواق البيت، وهو من قولك ارتفع الشيء أي تقدم، وليس هو من الارتفاع الذي هو بمعنى العلو، والسير المرفوع: دون الحضر وفوق الموضوع يكون للخيل والإبل، يقال: ارفع من دابتك؛ هذا كلام العرب. قال ابن السكيت: إذا ارتفع البعير عن الهملجة فذلك السير المرفوع، والروافع إذا رفعوا في مسيرهم. قال سيبويه: المرفوع والموضوع من المصادر التي جاءت على مفعول كأنه له ما يرفعه وله ما يضعه. ورفع البعير في السير يرفع، فهو رافع أي بالغ وسار ذلك السير، ورفعه ورفع منه: ساره، كذلك، يتعدى ولا يتعدى؛ وكذلك رفعته ترفيعا. ومرفوعها: خلاف موضوعها، ويقال: دابة له مرفوع ودابة ليس له مرفوع، وهو مصدر مثل المجلود والمعقول: قال طرفة: موضوعها زول، ومرفوعها ... كمر صوب لجب وسط ريح قال ابن بري: صواب إنشاده: مرفوعها زول، وموضوعها ... كمر صوب لجب وسط ريح والمرفوع: أرفع السير، والموضوع دونه، أي أرفع سيرها عجب لا يدرك وصفه وتشبيهه، وأما موضوعها وهو دون مرفوعها، فيدرك تشبيهه وهو كمر الريح المصوتة، ويروى: كمر غيث. وفي الحديث: فرفعت ناقتي أي كلفتها المرفوع من السير، وهو فوق الموضوع ودون العدو. وفي الحديث: فرفعنا مطينا ورفع رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، مطيته وصفية خلفه. والحمار يرفع في عدوه ترفيعا، ورفع الحمار: عدا عدوا بعضه أرفع من بعض. وكل ما قدمته، فقد رفعته. قال الأزهري: وكذلك لو أخذت شيئا فرفعت الأول، فالأول رفعته ترفيعا. والرفعة: نقيض الذلة. والرفعة: خلاف الضعة، رفع يرفع رفاعة، فهو رفيع إذا شرف، والأنثى بالهاء. قال سيبويه: لا يقال رفع ولكن ارتفع، وقوله تعالى: في بيوت أذن الله أن ترفع ؛ قال الزجاج: قال الحسن تأويل أن ترفع أن تعظم؛ قال: وقيل معناه أن تبنى، كذا جاء في التفسير. الأصمعي: رفع القوم، فهم رافعون إذا أصعدوا في البلاد؛ قال الراعي: دعاهن داع للخريف، ولم تكن ... لهن بلادا، فانتجعن روافعا أي مصعدات؛ يريد لم تكن تلك البلاد التي دعتهن لهن بلادا. والرفيعة: ما رفع به على الرجل، ورفع فلان على العامل رفيعة: وهو ما يرفعه من قضية ويبلغها. وفي الحديث: كل رافعة رفعت علينا من البلاغ فقد حرمتها أن تعضد أو تخبط إلا لعصفور قتب أو مسند محالة ، أي كل نفس أو جماعة مبلغة تبلغ وتذيع عنا ما نقوله فلتبلغ ولتحك أني قد حرمت المدينة أن يقطع شجرها أو يخبط ورقها، وروي: من البلاغ ، بالتشديد، بمعنى المبلغين كالحداث بمعنى المحدثين؛ والرفع هنا من رفع فلان على العامل إذا أذاع خبره وحكى عنه. ويقال: هذه أيام رفاع ورفاع، قال الكسائي: سمعت الجرام والجرام وأخواتها إلا ا …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    رَفَعَهُ

    1. رَفَعَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. رَفَعَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. رَفْعٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) He raised it: [this is generally the best rendering, as it serves to indicate several particular significations which will be found explained in what follows:] he elevated it; upraised it; uplifted it: he took it up: contr. of خَفَضَهُ: (Msb:) or of وَضَعَهُ: (S, Mgh, K:) as also رفّعهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَرْفِيعٌ; (TA;) and ارتفعهُ; (K;) for accord. to the “ Nawádir, ” you say, ارتفعهُ بِيَدِهِ and رَفَعَهُ [he raised it, lifted it, heaved it, or took it up, with his hand]; but Az says that ارتفع is intrans., and that he has heard no authority for its being trans., in the sense of رَفَعَ, except that which he had read in the “ Nawádir el-Aaráb:” (TA:) رَفْعٌ is sometimes applied to corporeal things, meaning the raising, or elevating, a thing from the resting-place thereof: sometimes to a building, meaning the rearing it, uprearing it, or making it high or lofty: (Er-Rághib:) or in relation to corporeal things, it is used properly to denote motion, and removal: (Msb:) it signifies the putting away or removing or turning back a thing after the coming or arriving thereof; like as دَفْعٌ signifies the putting away or removing or turning back a thing before the coming or arriving [thereof]: (Kull p. 185:) but in relation to ideal things, it is [tropically used, as it is also in many other cases, and] accorded in meaning to what the case requires. (Msb.) [In its principal senses, proper and tropical, رَفْعٌ agrees with the Latin Tollere..] It is said in the Kur [ii. 60 and 87], رَفَعْنَا فَوْقَكُمُ ٱلطُّورَ We raised above you from its resting-place the mountain: and in the same [xii. 2], اَللّٰهُ ٱلَّذِى رَفَعَ السَّمٰوَاتِ بِغَيْرِ عَمَدٍ تَرَوْنَهَا [God is He who raised the heavens without pillars that ye see; or, as ye see them]: and in the same [ii. 121], وَإِذْ يَرْفَعُ إِبْرٰهِيمُ القَوَاعِدَ مِنَ البَيْتِ [And when Abraham] was rearing or uprearing or making high or lofty [the foundations of the House of God, at Mekkeh]. (Er-Rághib.) And you say, اِرْفَعْ هٰذَا Take thou this: (Mgh:) or take it and carry it [away; or take it up and remove it]. (TA.) And رَفَعَ الزَّرعَ, (Lh, K,) or رَفَعَهُ إِلَى البَيْدَرِ, (Msb,) aor. رَفَعَ , (Lh,) inf. n. رَفْعٌ (Lh, S) and رِفَاعَةٌ and رِفَاعٌ [perhaps a mistranscription for رَفَاعُ, which see below], (Lh, TA,) He removed, or transported, the seed-produce from the place in which he had reaped it, (Lh,) or carried it after the reaping, (S, K,) to the place in which the grain was to be trodden out. (Lh, S, K.) [This last signification is said in the TA to be tropical; but according to a passage of the Msb quoted in the first sentence of this art., it is proper. In most of the phrases here following, the verb is undoubtedly used tropically.] رَفَعُوا إِلَىَّ عُيُونَهُمْ (tropical:) [They raised towards me their eyes]. (TA.) دَخَلْتُ عَلَى فُلَانٍ فَلَمْ يَرْفَعْ بِى رَأْسًا (Mgh, TA *) (tropical:) I went in to such a one, and he did not look towards me, nor pay any regard, or attention, to me. (Mgh.) [بِى is not here a mistake for لِى, for the phrase is often found thus written.] رُفِعَ لِىَ الشَّىْءُ (assumed tropical:) [The thing was, as it were, raised into view, i. e. it rose into view, to me;] I saw the thing from afar. (TA.) رَفَعَ السَّرَابُ الشَّخْصَ, aor. رَفَعَ , inf. n. رَفْعٌ, (tropical:) The mirage raised, or elevated [to the eye, (see an ex. near the end of the first paragraph of art. زول)] the figure of a man or some other thing seen from a distance; [or it may be allowable to render it, made it to appear tall, and as though quivering, vibrating, or playing up and down;] syn. زَهَاهُ [of which, when it relates to the mirage, the meaning is best expressed by the latter of the two explanations here given]. (TA.) وَرَفَعْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ دَرَجَاتٍ, in the Kur [xliii. 31], means (assumed tropical:) And we have exalted some of them above others in degrees of rank, or station: and نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَاتٍ مَنْ نَشَآءُ, in the same, [vi. 83, and xii. 76,] (assumed tropical:) We exalt in degrees of rank, or station, whom We please: (Er-Rághib:) and وَٱللّٰهُ يَرْفَعُ مَنْ يَشَآءُ وَيَخْفِضُ (assumed tropical:) And God exalteth whom He pleaseth, and abaseth: (S and TA:) and [in like manner,] رَفْعُ الذِّكْرِ means the exalting of one's fame; as in the Kur xciv. 4. (Er-Rághib.) But the words, وَإِلَى السَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ, in the Kur [lxxxviii. 18], indicate two meanings; And to the heaven, how it is elevated in respect of its place; and (assumed tropical:) how it is exalted in respect of excellence, and exaltation of rank. (Er-Rághib.) [In like manner also,] فِى بُيُوتٍ أَذِنَ ٱللّٰهُ أَنْ تُرْفَعَ, in the Kur [xxiv. 36], means In houses which God hath permitted to be built; (Bd, TA;) accord. to some: (TA:) or, (assumed tropical:) to be honoured; (Zj, Bd;) so says El-Hasan; (Zj;) or, (assumed tropical:) to be exalted in estimation. (Er-Rághib.) It is said in a trad., إِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ يَرْفَعُ العَدْلَ وَيَخْفِضُهُ (assumed tropical:) Verily God exalteth the just, and maketh him to have the ascendency over the unjust, and at one time abaseth him, so that He maketh the unjust to overcome him, in order to try his creatures, in the present world. (Az, TA.) [See also art. خفض.] And you say, رَفَعَهُ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ فِى المَجْلِسِ (assumed tropical:) He advanced him above his companion [in the sitting-place, or sitting-room, or assembly]. (TA.) And رَفَعْتُكَ عَنْ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [I exalted thee, or held thee, above such a thing]: (M voce رَبَأَ:) and إِنِّى لَأَرْفَعْكَ عَنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) [Verily I exalt thee, or hold thee, above this thing]. (S voce رَبَأَ, q. v.) رَفَعَ ٱللّٰهُ عَمَلَهُ (assumed tropical:) [God honoured his work by acceptance; or] God accepted his work. (Msb.) It is said in the Kur [xxxv. 11], وَٱلْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ (assumed tropical:) And righteous work He will accept: (Jel:) or the meaning is يَرْفَعُ العَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ الكَلِمَ الطَّيَّبَ (assumed tropical:) [righteous work will cause praise, or the like, (mentioned immediately before the above-cited words of the Kur,) to ascend, and obtain acceptance]: (Mujáhid, TA:) Katádeh says, [that the meaning is,] speech will not be accepted without work. (TA.) رَفْعٌ Also signifies (assumed tropical:) The bringing a thing near; or presenting, or offering, it; syn. تَقْرِيبٌ. (S.) And hence, رَفَعْتُهُ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ, (S, Mgh, K,) and إِلَى الحَكَمِ, (TA,) inf. n. رَفْعٌ (S, * TA) and رُفْعَانٌ (S, K) and رِفْعَانٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) I presented him to, or brought him before, or brought him forward to, the Sultán, (S, * Mgh, * K, * TA,) and the judge, to arraign him and contest with him: (TA:) and إِلَى الحَاكِمِ رَافَعَهُ, (S K,) inf. n. مُرَافَعَةٌ, (TA,) [in like manner] signifies (tropical:) he preferred a complaint against him to the governor, or judge: (K:) or (tropical:) he presented him to, or brought him before, or brought him forward to, the governor, or judge, to arraign him and contest with him, and preferred a complaint against him: (TA:) [or it denotes the doing so mutually; for, accord. to Mtr,] خَصْمَهُ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ رَافَعَ signifies (tropical:) he brought his adversary before the Sultán (قَرَّبَهُ إِلَيْهِ), the latter doing the same with him. (Mgh.) [See also 2.] رَفَعَ القُرْآنَ عَلَى السُّلْطَانِ (tropical:) [He adduced, or brought forward, the Kur-án against the Sultán;] he interpreted the Kur-án against the Sultán, and judged thereby that he should rebel against him. (TA.) رَفْعْتُ الرَّجُلَ also signifies (tropical:) I traced up the man's lineage to his greatest ancestor; or I mentioned his lineage, saying, He is such a one the son of such a one, or He is of such a tribe, or city, &c.; syn. نَمَيْتُهُ, and نَسَبْتُهُ. (TA.) And hence, رَفَعَ الحَدِيثَ إِلَى النَّبِىِّ (tropical:) [He traced up, or ascribed, or attributed, the tradition to the Prophet, mentioning, in ascending order, the persons by whom it had been handed down, up to the Prophet; in the manner more fully explained in the sentence here next following]. (TA.) You say also, رَفَعَ الحَدِيثَ إِلَى قَائِلِهِ, meaning أَسْنَدَهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) He traced up, or ascribed, or attributed, the tradition to the author thereof, by mentioning him, or by mentioning, uninterruptedly, in ascending order, the persons by whom it had been transmitted, up to the Prophet; or by mentioning the person who had related it to him from the Prophet if only one person intervened, saying, “ Such a one told me, from such a one, ” (and so on if more than one intervened between him and the Prophet,) “ from the Apostle of God; ” or with an interruption in the mention of the persons by whom it had been transmitted]. (S * and Msb in art. سند.) [And hence what next follows.] It is said in a trad., رَفَعَتْ إِلَيْنَا مِنَ البَلَاغِ كُلُّ رَافِعَةٍ فَقَدْ حَرَّمْتُهَا أَنْ تُعْضَدَ أَوْتُخْبَطَ, (S, * TA, [in a very old and excellent copy of the former of which I find, as above, إِلَيْنَا, and so in some copies of the K and in the O and TA in art. بلغ; but in one copy of the S and in the TA in the present art., I find in its place عَلَيْنَا, and so in the CK in art. بلغ, where the verb preceding it is erroneously written رُفِعَتْ; and in the L, in the place of الينا is put عَنَّا; of all which three readings I prefer the first; though the last is agreeable with an explanation of رَفَعْتُهُ given in the Msb and in the sentence next following;]) i. e. (assumed tropical:) Every company of men (جَمَاعَة, S, TA), or person (نَفْس, TA), that communicates, or announces, from us, (S, TA,) and makes known, [lit. traces up to us,] what we say, (TA,) [or rather, aught of what is communicated, or announced,] or [aught] of what is communicated, or announced, of the Kur-án and of the [statutes, or ordinances, &c., termed] سُنَن, (K in art. بلغ,) or the meaning is مِنْ ذَوِى البَلَاغِ, i. e., التَّبْلِيغِ, [of those who have the office of communicating, or announcing,] the simple subst. being put in the place of the inf. n., (T, O, K, TA, all in art. بلغ,) let that company, or person, communicate, or announce, and relate, that I have forbidden [its trees' being lopped, or being beaten with a stick in order that their leaves may fall off,] referring to El-Medeeneh: (S, * TA:) but some relate it differently, saying, مِنَ البُلَّاغِ [of the communicaters, or announcers,] like حُدَّاث in the sense of مُحَدِّثُون: (TA:) and some say, مِنَ البِلَاغِ, meaning من المُبَالِغِينَ فِى التَّبْلِيغِ, i. e. of those who do their utmost in communicating, or announcing. (Hr, and K in art. بلغ.) [Hence,] رَفَعْتُهُ [alone] signifies (tropical:) I made it known. (Msb.) You say, رَفَعَ عَلَيْهِ كَلَامًا (assumed tropical:) [He told, or related, a saying against him; informed against him]. (S and K voce رَقَّى, q. v.) And رَفَعَ عَلَى العَامِلِ رَفِيعَةً (tropical:) He communicated, (S,) or made known, (Msb,) [or submitted, or referred,] a case [to the administrator of the law]; (S;) and إِلَى الحَاكِمِ [to the governor, or judge]. (TA.) And رَفَعْتُ الأَمْرَ إِلَى السُّلْطِانِ, inf. n. رُفْعَانٌ, (tropical:) I made known [or submitted, or referred, by way of appeal,] the affair, or matter, to the Sultán. (Msb.) [See also 2.] [And hence, app.,] رُفِعَتْ لَهُ غَايَةٌ فَسَمَا لَهَا (tropical:) [An object to be reached, or accomplished, was proposed to him, and he aspired to it]. (TA.) رَفَعَ البَعِيرَ, (Sb, K,) and النَّاقَةَ, (TA,) or رَفَعَ النَّاقَةَ فِى السَّيْرِ, and الدَّابَّةَ, (M in art. نص,) inf. n. رَفْعٌ, (TA in that art.,) (tropical:) He made the camel, (S, Msb, K,) and the she-camel, (TA,) and the beast, (M ubi suprà,) to exert himself, or herself, to the full, or to the utmost, or beyond measure, in going, or pace; (S, K, TA;) or to go quickly; (Msb;) or to go with the utmost celerity: (TA in art. نص:) or constrained him, or her, to go the pace termed مَرْفُوع [q. v. infrà], (TA,) which is an inf. n. of the intrans. verb رَفَعَ [q. v. infrà] said of a camel (S, TA) and of a beast: (TA:) and رفّعهُ, (S, TA,) [and رفّعها,] and رفّع مِنْهُ, (TA,) [and مِنْهَا,] inf. n. تَرْفِيعٌ, signify the same: (S, TA:) or the phrase used by the Arabs is اِرْفَعْ مِنْ دَابَّتِكَ (tropical:) [Make thou thy beast to exert itself, &c.]. (L, TA.) [You say also, app. in like manner, رَفَعَتْنِى أَرْضٌ: or in this case the verb may have a different meaning: see an ex. in the first paragraph of art. خفض.] [Hence,] رَفَعْتُهُ إِلَى حَدِّ مَا عِنْدَهُ مِنَ العِلْمِ (assumed tropical:) [I urged him to tell the utmost of what he knew;] (A in art. نص;) i. e. I went to the utmost point [with him] in questioning him, or asking him. (TA in that art.) [رَفَعَ النَّارَ (assumed tropical:) He stirred up the fire; made it to burn up.] رَفَعَتِ النَّاقَةُ لَبَنَهَا (tropical:) The she-camel [drew up, or withdrew, or withheld, her milk; i. e.,] did not yield her milk: (A, TA:) and رَفَعَتِ اللِّبَأَ فِى ضَرْعِهَا (tropical:) [She (a camel) drew up, & c., or refused to yield, the biestings in her udder]. (As, S, K.) رَفَعَهُ فِى خِزَانَتِهِ, and صُنْدُوقِهِ, (tropical:) He kept it, preserved it, laid it up, stowed it, or reposited it, in his repository, store-room, or closet, and his chest. (TA.) هُوَ لَا يَرْفَعُ العَصَا عَنْ عَاتِقِهِ, (Msb, TA,) or عَصَاهُ عن عاتقه, or عَنْ أَهْلِهِ, (Mgh,) (tropical:) [lit. He does not put away the staff, or stick, or his staff, or stick, from his shoulder, or from his wife,] is an allusion to discipline, chastisement, or punishment, (Mgh, TA,) or to severity thereof, (Msb,) and to beating (Mgh, TA) of women; (Mgh;) not meaning that the staff, or stick, is on the shoulder: (Msb:) or the first is an allusion to many journeyings. (TA.) رُفِعَ القَلَمُ عَنْ ثَلَاثٍ; (Mgh, Msb;) so in the “ Firdows, ” on the authority of 'Alee and I' Ab and 'Áïsheh, meaning ثَلَاثِ أَنْفُسٍ; (assumed tropical:) [The pen of the recording angel is withheld from three persons;] a saying of Mohammad, which means that nothing is recorded either for or against three persons; (Mgh, Msb; *) these three being the sleeper until he awakes, the afflicted with disease or the like, or the demented, until he recovers, and the child until he becomes big, or attains to puberty. (El-Jámi' -es-Sagheer of Es-Suyootee; in which we find ثَلَاثَةٍ in the place of ثَلَاثٍ.) This is like the saying next before mentioned; the pen having never been put [to the tablet to record aught] against the child. (Msb.) [رَفَعَ often signifies (assumed tropical:) He withdrew, put away, removed, did away or did away with, annulled, revoked, or remitted.] You say, اَللّٰهُمَّ ٱرْفَعْ عَنَّا هٰذِهِ الضُّغْطَةَ (assumed tropical:) [O God, withdraw, put away, or remove, from us this straitness, difficulty, distress, or affliction]. (S in art. ضغط.) [And in like manner also you say, رَفَعَ عَنْهُ العَذَابَ (assumed tropical:) He withdrew, or put away, from him the punishment; he annulled, revoked, or remitted, his punishment.] رَفَعُوا الحَرْبَ [may also be rendered in a similar manner; (assumed tropical:) They gave over, or relinquished, war; as though they put it away; like وَضَعُوهَا: but] is used by Moosà Ibn-Jábir [in the contr. sense, (assumed tropical:) they raised, or made, war;] in opposition to وضعوها. (Ham p. 180.) اِخْتَلَفُوا فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ نَرْفَعُ طَرِيقًا وَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لَا نَرْفَعُ means (assumed tropical:) [They disagreed; and some of them said,] We will exclude a way, or passage, from among the portions, or shares, (قِسْمة, [q. v.,]) of the land, or the house; and [some of them said,] We will not exclude it. (Mgh.) In the conventional language of the grammarians, رَفْعٌ, in the inflection of words, is like ضَمٌّ in the non-inflection. (S) [You say, رَفَعَ الحَرْفَ, aor. رَفَعَ , inf. n. رَفْعٌ, (assumed tropical:) He made the final letter to have رَفٌعَ or رَفُعَ in its inflection.] رَفَعَ القَوْمُ (tropical:) The people, or company of men, went up, or upwards, through the countries, or lands. (As, K, TA.) رَفَعَ البَعِيرُ, (S, Msb, K,) فِى السَّيْرِ, (S,) or فِى سَيْرِهِ, (Msb, K,) inf. n. مَرْفُوعٌ (Sb, S, TA) and رَفْعٌ, (S, A, K, all in art. خفض,) the former an inf. n. (Sb, S, TA) of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (Sb, TA,) like [its contr. مَخْفُوضٌ, and] مَجْلُودٌ, and مَعْقُولٌ, (S, TA,) and مَوْضُوعٌ, (Sb, TA,) (tropical:) The camel exerted himself to the full, or to the utmost, or beyond measure, in going, or pace, or in his going, or his pace: (S, K, TA:) or was quick therein: (Msb:) or went the pace termed مَرْفُوع, [q. v. infrà,] which is a running below that termed حُضْر: (S, TA:) as though he had that [manner of going] which raised him, as well as that which lowered him. (Sb and TA with reference to the inf. n. مرفوع and موضوع.) And رَفَعُوا فِى مَسِيرِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) They [namely men] rose above the [easy and quick pace termed] هَمْلَجَة in their going, or journeying. (ISk.) رَفُعَ, inf. n. رِفْعَةٌ; (S, K;) or, accord. to Aboo-Bekr Mohammad Ibn-Es-Sereé, [so in two copies of the S, but in others, accord. to the TA, Ibn-EsSarráj,] they did not say رَفُعَ from رَفِيعٌ in the sense of شَرِيفٌ; (S, O;) so says Sb; and he adds, but [they said] ارتفع; (TA;) (tropical:) He (a man, S) was, or became, high, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent, in rank, condition, or state; (S, K, TA;) noble, honourable, glorious, or illustrious. (TA.) And رَفُعَ فِى حَسَبِهِ وَنَسَبِهِ (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, of high or exalted rank, or noble, or honourable, in his grounds of pretension to respect, and his relationship, or race, or lineage. (Msb.) رَفُعَ الثَّوْبُ (assumed tropical:) The garment, or piece of cloth, was fine, fine in texture, delicate, or thin. (Msb.) رَفُعَ, (S, K,) inf. n. رَفَاعَةٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He (a man, S) was, or became, high, or loud, (رَفِيع,) in voice. (S, K.) [See رَفَاعَةٌ below.]

    رفّعهُ

    2. رفّعهُ, inf. n. تَرْفِيعٌ: see 1, in the first sentence. He took it, namely, a thing, and raised it, (رَفَعَهُ,) the first [part thereof] and then the first [or next in succession]: En-Nábighah EdhDhubyánee says, [She had cleared the way of a torrent coming from another quarter, which it (meaning the barrier raised around the tent to keep away the torrent, which barrier is mentioned two verses before,) confined, and raised it by degrees, the first part and then the next, to the two curtains meeting together at the entrance of the tent, and then to the goods piled up therein: or the meaning here intended is, brought it forward, or advanced it; syn. قَدَّمَتْهُ; agreeably with the next explanation of رَفَّعَ here following: see some observations on the above-cited verse in De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., 2nd. ed., vol. ii. pp. 430 and 431]. (Lth, TA.) رَفَّعَهُمْ He put them, brought them, or sent them, forward; or advanced them; لِلْحَرْبِ to the war, or fight: or, accord. to Ibn-'Abbád and the K, he put them, sent them, or removed them, far away; [app. meaning, far in advance;] فِى الحَرْبِ in the war, or fight. (TA.) You say also, رَفَّعْتُ هٰذَا الأَمْرَ إِلَى الأَمِيرِ (assumed tropical:) I brought forward this affair, or matter, to the commander, governor, or prince. (From an Arabic note on the above-cited verse of En-Nábighah, cited by De Sacy, ubi suprà.) [See also 1, in two places in which reference is made to this paragraph.] رفّع البَعِيرَ, and النَّاقَةَ, and رفّع مِنْهُ, and مِنْهَا: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. رفّع الحِمَارُ, (Lth, K,) inf. n. as above, (Lth,) (assumed tropical:) The ass ran with a running of which one part was quicker (أَرْفَع) than another. (Lth, K.)

    رافعهُ إِلَى الحَاكِمِ

    3. رافعهُ إِلَى الحَاكِمِ, inf. n. مُرَافَعَةٌ: and رافع خَصْمَهُ إِلَى السُّلْطَانِ: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph. رَافَعَنِى فُلَانٌ وَخَافَضَنِى فَلَمْ أَفْعَلْ (tropical:) Such a one endeavoured in every way to induce me to turn or incline, or endeavoured in every way to turn me by deceit or guile, but I did not [that which he desired]. (K, * TA.) رافع بِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) He spared them; or pardoned them, and forbore to slay them. (K.) And رَافَعْتُهُ (assumed tropical:) I left him; or left him unmolested; or left him, being left by him; or made peace, or reconciled myself, with him; syn. تَارَكْتُهُ. (TA.)

    ترفّع

    5. ترفّع (tropical:) He exalted himself; he was, or became, haughty, proud, or disdainful; syn. تَجَالَّ; (S in art. جل;) [and so فِى نَفْسِهِ ارتفع, occurring in the S in art. دكل, on the authority of AZ.] You say, فُلَانٌ يَتَرَفَّعُ عَنْ ذٰلِكَ (S ubi suprà, TA *) (tropical:) Such a one exalts himself above that; holds himself above it; disdains it; or is disdainful of it; syn. يَتَجَالُّ. (S ubi suprà.) And تَرَفَّعَتْ بِى هِمَّتِى عَنْ كَذَا (tropical:) [My ambition raised me above such a thing; made me to hold myself above it, or to disdain it]. (TA.) See also 8.

    تَرَافَعْنَا إِلَى الحَاكِمِ

    6. تَرَافَعْنَا إِلَى الحَاكِمِ (tropical:) [Each of us preferred a complaint against the other to the governor, or judge: or each of us presented the other to, or brought him before, or brought him forward to, the governor, or judge, to arraign him and contest with him, and preferred a complaint against him: agreeably with explanations of the phrase رَافَعَهُ إِلَى الحَاكِمِ]: (S:) or each of us communicated, or made known, his case [against the other] to the governor, or judge. (TA.)

    ارتفع

    8. ارتفع It became raised; or it rose: it rose high, or became high or elevated or lofty: [it became raised, upraised, uplifted, or elevated, or it rose, from its resting-place: and, said of a building, it became reared, upreared, or made high or lofty:] it became taken up: [it became taken away, put away, or removed; or it went away; after its coming or arriving: thus when said of corporeal things: but when said of ideal things, it is tropically used, as it is also in many other cases, and accorded in meaning to what the case requires:] quasi-pass. of رَفَعَهُ as signifying the contr. of وَضَعَهُ. (S, K.) [See 1; first sentence.] It (the water of a well) rose, by its becoming copious: and also it went away: (A in art. قلص:) [in which latter sense, likewise, it is said of milk in the udder; or as meaning it became drawn up, or withdrawn, or withheld: see 1. See also a usage of this verb voce رَقَأَ.] (tropical:) Said of a man: see 1, voce رَفُعَ, near the end of the paragraph. ارتفع قَدْرُهُ (tropical:) [His rank became high, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent]. (S, TA.) اِرْتَفِعْ, said to a man entering a sittingplace, sitting-room, or assembly, means (tropical:) Advance thou: it is not from اِرْتِفَاعٌ denoting height. (TA.) See also 5. ارتفعت الضُّحَى (tropical:) [The morning became advanced; meaning] the sun became high: الضُّحَى being originally a pl., namely, of الضَّحْوَةُ; [wherefore the verb is fem.;] but afterwards used as a sing. [as in the next ex. here following]. (Msb.) You say also, الضُّحَى تَرَفَّعَ (tropical:) [meaning the same]. (TA.) And ارتفع النَّهَارُ (assumed tropical:) [The day became advanced, the sun being somewhat high: a phrase said by the doctors of the law in the present day to be employed when the sun has risen the measure of a رُمْح or more]. (S and K in art. متع; &c.) ارتفع السِّعْرُ وَٱنْحَطَّ (tropical:) [The price rose, or advanced, and became low, or abated]. (TA.) [ارتفعوا (assumed tropical:) They removed from, or to, a place. ارتفع عَنْهُ, said of a disease, pain, an affliction, and the like, (assumed tropical:) It quitted him; became withdrawn from him.] النَّقِيضَانِ لَا يَجْتَمِعَانِ وَلَا يَرْتَفِعَانِ (assumed tropical:) [What are termed نقيضان cannot be coexistent in the same thing, nor simul taneously nonexistent in the same thing]; as existence itself and nonexistence, and motion and rest. (Kull pp. 231 and 232.) ارتفعهُ: see 1; first sentence.

    استرفعهُ

    10. استرفعهُ He desired, required, demanded, or asked, that it should be raised, elevated, taken up, or removed. (K.) You say, استرفع الوَاعِظُ الأَيْدِىَ لِلدُّعَآءِ The preacher asked that the hands of the people should be raised for supplication. (TA.) [And hence, as though meaning استرفع نَفْسَهُ i. e. It required that itself should be re moved,] استرفع الخُوَانُ (assumed tropical:) What was on the table became consumed, and it was time for it to be taken up, or removed. (K.)

    رَفْعٌ

    رَفْعٌ [see رَفَعَ, (of which it is the inf. n.,) throughout].

    رِفْعَةٌ

    رِفْعَةٌ [see رَفُعَ, near the end of the first para graph: used as a simple subst., which it seems properly to be accord. to some of the lexicologists,] (tropical:) High, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent, rank or condition or state; nobility, honourableness, gloriousness, or illustriousness; (TA;) as also رِفَاعَةٌ, a subst. from رَفُعَ. (Msb.)

    هٰذِهِ أَيَّامُ رَفَاعٍ

    هٰذِهِ أَيَّامُ رَفَاعٍ, and رِفَاعٍ; (AA, ISk, Az, S, Mgh, * Msb, * K;) but As disallows the latter; (TA;) and Ks says, I have heard الجِرَام and الجَرَام, and their coordinates, [such as الصِّرَام and الصَّرَام, &c.,] but الرفاع with kesr I have not heard; (S, TA;) These are days of removal, or transport, of seed-produce from the place in which it has been reaped, (TA,) or of carriage thereof after reaping, (S, Mgh, K,) to the place in which the grain is trodden out. (S, Mgh, K, TA.) [See 1, near the beginning.] رَفَاعٌ, or رِفَاعٌ, (accord. to different copies of the K,) or each, (TA,) also signifies The storing-up of seed produce. (K.)

    رِفَاعٌ

    رِفَاعٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

    رَفِيعٌ

    رَفِيعٌ (tropical:) High, elevated, exalted, lofty, or eminent, in rank, condition, or state; noble, honourable, or glorious; (S, Msb, K, TA;) applied to a man: (S, Msb, TA:) fem. with ة. (TA.) You say, هُوَ رَفِيعُ الحَسَبِ وَالقَدْرِ (tropical:) [He is high, &c., in respect of grounds of pretension to honour, and of rank]. (TA.) And hence the phrase used by letter-writers, الجَنَابُ الرَّفِيعُ (tropical:) [The exalted object of recourse]. (TA.) Hence also the phrase in the Kur [xl. 15], رَفِيعُ الدَّرَجَاتِ (assumed tropical:) The Exalted in respect of degrees of dignity: (Er-Rághib:) or this means (assumed tropical:) Great in respect of attributes: or the Exalter of the degrees of dignity of the believers in Paradise. (Jel.) Applied to a garment, or piece of cloth, (assumed tropical:) Fine, fine in texture, delicate, or thin. (Msb.) رَفِيعُ الصَّوْتِ (tropical:) [High, or loud, in voice]; (K, TA;) applied to a man. (TA.) سَيْرٌ رَفِيعٌ (tropical:) [A pace in which a beast is made to exert itself to the full, or to the utmost, or beyond measure; or in which the utmost pos sible celerity is elicited: see رَفَعَ البَعِيرَ, in the latter half of the first paragraph: and see also مَرْفُوعٌ]. (K in art. نص.)

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗
Technical definitions1 · Ibn ʿArabī’s Iṣṭilāḥ, al-Jurjānī’s Taʿrīfāt
  • المرفوع من الحديث

    ما أخبر الصحابي عن قول رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.

    Al-marfūʿ min al-ḥadīth (المرفوع من الحديث): that which a Companion reports as the saying of the Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 4246 ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

ر ف ع

الراء والفاء والعين أصل واحد يدل على خلاف الوضع تقول رفعت الشيء رفعا وهو خلاف الخفض ومرفوع الناقة في سيرها خلاف الموضوع

r-f-ʿ is a single root indicating the opposite of placing down; you say "rafaʿtu al-shayʾa rafʿan," which is the opposite of lowering; and "marfūʿ" of a she-camel in her gait is the opposite of "mawḍūʿ."

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×29

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ر

ومن مخرج النون غير أنه أدخل في ظهر اللسان قليلا لانحرافه إلى اللام مخرج الراء

From the place of the nūn, except that it goes a little further onto the back of the tongue, because it leans towards the lām, is the place of the rāʾ. Sībawayh, lines 26557–26558 ↗

ومن مخرج النون غير أنه أدخل في ظهر اللسان قليلا، لانحرافه إلى اللام، مخرج الراء

From the place of the nūn, except that it goes a little further onto the back of the tongue, because it leans towards the lām, is the place of the rāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, lines 980–981 ↗

ف

ومن باطن الشفة السفلى وأطراف الثنايا العلى مخرج الفاء

From the inside of the lower lip and the edges of the upper front teeth is the place of the fāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26562 ↗

ومن باطن الشفة السفلى وأطراف الثنايا العلى، مخرج الفاء

From the inside of the lower lip and the edges of the upper front teeth is the place of the fāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 985 ↗

ع

ومن أوسط الحلق مخرج العين والحاء

From the middle of the throat is the place of the ʿayn and the ḥāʾ. Sībawayh, lines 26548–26549 ↗

ومن وسط الحلق مخرج العين والحاء

From the middle of the throat is the place of the ʿayn and the ḥāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 970 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ر

Level of existence: السماء الخامسة · the fifth heaven

Divine Name: المصور · the Form-Giver (al-Muṣawwir)

Lunar mansion: الغفر · al-Ghafr

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64675

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ف

Level of existence: الملائكة · the angels

Divine Name: القوى · the Strong (al-Qawī)

Lunar mansion: سعد الأخبية · Saʿd al-Akhbiya

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 65823

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ع

Level of existence: الطبيعة · Nature

Divine Name: الباطن · The Inward (al-Bāṭin)

Lunar mansion: الثريا · al-Thurayyā (the Pleiades)

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 63825

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 9 line 2572 ↗

Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

ر

فهي إشارة إلى جميع الخيرات الظاهرة والباطنة.

It is an indication of all goods, outward and inward.

فهي إشارة إلى الواحد في نفسه وهو ظاهر.

It is an indication of the one in itself, and it is manifest.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي فيه الروح وليس من بني آدم، أو إشارة إلى الروح نفسها.

It is an indication of a thing that has spirit in it but is not of the children of Adam, or an indication of the spirit itself.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ف

فهي لنفي الخبث بعد ما كان جنسه معلوما بالخبث، فهي إشارة إلى أنه طاهر وجنسه خبيث، والخبث مثل المعاصي وما أشبهها.

It is for negating foulness in something whose genus is known for foulness. It thus indicates that the thing is pure while its genus is foul; foulness being like sins and the like.

فهي لتزويل الخبث.

It is for removing foulness.

فهي إشارة إلى الذات وما احتوت عليه، وفي بعض الأحيان قد يكون معها التقليل.

It is an indication of the self and what it contains; at times it may carry a sense of diminution.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ع

فهي اسم لقدوم أو رحيل.

It is a name for arrival or departure.

فهي اسم للساكن في الذات التي تقوم به.

It is a name for that which dwells in the self and by which the self subsists.

فهي اسم لخبث الذات.

It is a name for the foulness of the self.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
Two-letter nucleus13 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterر ف

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 11651 ↗

  • رفقالراء والفاء والقاف أصل واحد يدل على موافقة ومقاربة بلا عنف فالرفق خلاف العنفQ 5 · L11652
  • رفلالراء والفاء واللام أصل واحد يدل على سعة ووفورL11667
  • رفنالراء والفاء والنون ليس أصلا وإنما النون في رفن مبدلة من لام لأنه في الأصل رفل فأما قولهم ارفأن إذا سكن فإن النون فيه زائدةL11669
  • رفةالراء والفاء والهاء أصل واحد يدل على نعمة وسعة مطلبL11671
  • رفوأالراء والفاء والحرف المعتل أو الهمزة أصل واحد يدل على موافقة وسكون وملاءمةL11677
  • رفتالراء والفاء والتاء أصل واحد يدل على فت وليQ 2 · L11687
  • رفثالراء والفاء والثاء أصل واحد وهو كل كلام يستحيا من إظهاره وأصله الرفث وهو النكاحQ 2 · L11689
  • رفدالراء والفاء والدال أصل واحد مطرد منقاس وهو المعاونة والمظاهرة بالعطاء وغيره فالرفد مصدر رفده يرفده إذا أعطاه والاسم الرفد وجاء في الحديث ( ويكون الفيQ 2 · L11692
  • رفزالراء والفاء والزاء ليس هو عندنا أصلا لكنهمL11707
  • رفشالراء والفاء والشين ليس شيئا ويقولون الرفش الأكلL11711
  • رفصالراء والفاء والصاد فيه كلمة واحدة يقولون ارتفص السعر غلا فأما الرفصة فالماء يكون بين القوم نوبة ويقال إنه مقلوب من الفرصةL11712
  • رفضالراء والفاء والضاد أصل واحد وهو الترك ثم يشتق منهL11715
  • رفعالراء والفاء والعين أصل واحد يدل على خلاف الوضع تقول رفعت الشيء رفعا وهو خلاف الخفض ومرفوع الناقة في سيرها خلاف الموضوعQ 29 · L11727
In the sister scriptsHebrew ר פ עSyriac ܪ ܦ ܥ
Arabicر ف ع
Hebrewר פ ע
Syriacܪ ܦ ܥ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩧 𐩰 𐩲
Phoenician𐤓 𐤐 𐤏

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconAl-Khalīl gives the base sense rafaʿtu...well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    Al-Khalīl gives the base sense rafaʿtu... fa-irtafaʿa, and extends it to lightning that blazes upward (barq rāfiʿ), to a mount's gait that is "raised" above mere walking (marfūʿ, opposite of mawḍūʿ), and to a man's rising in nobility (rafīʿ). Al-Jawharī confirms rafʿ as the plain contrary of waḍʿ, then adds two specialized idioms: rafaʿa 'alā al-ʿāmil, to lodge a report or complaint against an official with higher authority, and rafʿ al-zarʿ, to carry the harvested crop to the threshing floor. Ibn Fāris fixes khilāf al-waḍʿ as the single core sense, from which he derives the quickened gait of a she-camel (rāfiʿ), and — importantly — the sense of making something known or public (idhāʿa), citing the ḥadīth "kullu rāfiʿatin rafaʿat ʿalaynā min al-balāgh," every group that conveys a report to us. Al-Rāghib distinguishes four registers: raising solid bodies from their place (rafaʿnā fawqakum al-ṭūr, Q2:93), raising in construction (yarfaʿu Ibrāhīm al-qawāʿid, Q2:127), raising in renown (rafaʿnā laka dhikrak, Q94:4), raising in rank (rafaʿnā baʿḍahum fawqa baʿḍ darajāt, Q43:32) and, as a distinct case, God's bodily raising of Jesus to Himself (rafaʿahu Allāh ilayh, Q4:158). Ibn Manẓūr collects these and adds the divine name al-Rāfiʿ, He who raises the believer through felicity and His friends through nearness, and glosses khāfiḍatun rāfiʿah (Q56:3) — per al-Zajjāj — as the Day that lowers the disobedient and raises the obedient. Lane's entry confirms rafaʿahu as the general verb of upraising, contrary to waḍaʿahu, with the same range of concrete and figurative extensions.

    Draws on: al-Khalīl, al-ʿAyn · al-Jawharī, al-Ṣiḥāḥ · Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs · al-Rāghib, al-Mufradāt · Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab · Lane, Lexicon

  • Letters & soundIn the correspondences given, rāʾ is assigned to the fifth heaven, and by al-Dabbāgh to all goods, outward and inward;speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    In the correspondences given, rāʾ is assigned to the fifth heaven, and by al-Dabbāgh to all goods, outward and inward; fāʾ to the angels, and by al-Dabbāgh to the negation of foulness within a foul genus; ʿayn to Nature (al-Ṭabīʿa), and by al-Dabbāgh to a name for arrival or departure. One could read ر-ف-ع as a movement through the heavenly (ر) by angelic mediation (ف) away from Nature (ع) — a reading that happens to echo the verb's own sense of ascent — but this is speculative resonance only, not a linguistic derivation, and mainstream philology assigns no fixed meaning to individual Arabic letters.

    Draws on: Ibn ʿArabī, letters in the Breath (akbari198) · al-Dabbāgh, letter meanings

  • Root structureIbn Fāris's nucleus for ر-ف-ع is khilāf al-waḍʿ, contrary of placing down.uncertain

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Ibn Fāris's nucleus for ر-ف-ع is khilāf al-waḍʿ, contrary of placing down. Its chapter-neighbors under ر-ف- cluster around gentleness without violence (رفق), ampleness and abundance (رفل, رفة), concord and stillness (رفوأ), and aid given by extending something to another (رفد) — a family loosely oriented toward upward or outward extension and ease, into which "raising" fits comfortably though this is juxtaposition, not proof. The permutation فرع (elevation, branching, height — the one Qurʾānic occurrence being the tall tree of Q14:24) shares both letters and the semantic field of height with رفع; whether this reflects Ibn Jinnī's greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar) or mere coincidence of small root-inventory is left open.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris nucleus ر-ف-ع · sibling chapters ر-ف-ق/ر-ف-ل/ر-ف-د · permutation ف-ر-ع

  • Semitic kin & loanwordsNo confident Semitic cognate for ر-ف-ع in this specific sense of "to raise" is evident from the standard comparanda: Hebrew instead uses rûm/hērîm and nāśāʾ for elevation, and Aramaic likewise has other roots (e.g.uncertain

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    No confident Semitic cognate for ر-ف-ع in this specific sense of "to raise" is evident from the standard comparanda: Hebrew instead uses rûm/hērîm and nāśāʾ for elevation, and Aramaic likewise has other roots (e.g. zqp, ʿly) for this sense, not a reflex of r-f-ʿ. Any resemblance to distantly attested Akkadian rapû, "to be wide/broad," would be semantically distant and is not put forward with confidence. The root should be treated as Arabic-internal for present comparative purposes, with no established loan relationship.

    Draws on: no confident cognate identified

  • Quranic exegesisAt Q2:63 and 2:93, "wa-rafaʿnā fawqakum al-ṭūr," al-Ṭabarī and later exegetes read the raising of the mountain as a literal miracle, the mountain lifted like a canopy over the Israelites at the moment of covenant, meant to compel their assent.well attested

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At Q2:63 and 2:93, "wa-rafaʿnā fawqakum al-ṭūr," al-Ṭabarī and later exegetes read the raising of the mountain as a literal miracle, the mountain lifted like a canopy over the Israelites at the moment of covenant, meant to compel their assent. At Q3:55, "innī mutawaffīka wa-rāfiʿuka ilayya," concerning Jesus, al-Ṭabarī records the majority reading as a bodily raising to heaven prior to any death, while al-Rāzī engages the theological stakes given the Qurʾān's denial of the crucifixion at 4:157, treating rafʿ here as preservation from death by ascent rather than mere elevation of rank. At Q56:34 and 80:14, marfūʿah describes couches and scrolls that are "raised" — al-Zamakhsharī glosses this as elevation in honor and worth, the scrolls held by honored, purified scribes and the couches signifying rank in Paradise rather than mere physical height.

    Draws on: al-Ṭabarī · al-Zamakhsharī · al-Rāzī

  • Akbarian readingIn Faṣṣ Ādam, Ibn ʿArabī uses rafīʿah for the lofty station the angels claim for themselves on the ground of their divine comprehensiveness (jamʿiyya ilāhiyya), a claim the chapter goes on to relativize.plausible

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    In Faṣṣ Ādam, Ibn ʿArabī uses rafīʿah for the lofty station the angels claim for themselves on the ground of their divine comprehensiveness (jamʿiyya ilāhiyya), a claim the chapter goes on to relativize. Elsewhere he uses rafʿ in a logical-technical sense: universal realities (al-umūr al-kulliyya) cannot be "lifted away" (lā yumkin rafʿuhā) from the intellect, even though they have no independent existence in the concrete particular — rafʿ here means removal or negation, not spatial elevation. A third passage speaks of a veil that "is never lifted" (lā yurfaʿ), despite the creature's knowledge of its own ontological poverty before its Originator — rafʿ as the removal of a cognitive/existential barrier that, in this life, never actually occurs.

    Draws on: Faṣṣ Ādam, three occurrences of ر-ف-ع

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