Mashrabaمشربة

روحa large, regular root denoting spaciousness, ease and continuity, all traced back to rīḥ, … (root rwh)

الراء والواو والحاء أصل كبير مطرد يدل على سعة وفسحة واطراد وأصل ذلك كله الريح وأصل الياء في الريح الواو وإنما قلبت ياء …

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

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

64 words8 verbs9 verbal nouns7 participles7 places and instruments5 intensives and elatives15 other nouns7 plurals6 relatives and abstracts

  • رُوحthe soul, spirit, or vital principle
  • رِيحsuch a one inclines, or turns, with every wind
  • أَرْوَاح—
  • رِيَاح—
  • رَوْحrepose; refreshment
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Verbs8راحَ · اراحَ · اِسْتَراحَ

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

Verbal nouns9رِيح · رَوْح · رَوَاح

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

Participles7مُرَاح · مُرَوَّح · رَائِح

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

  • مُرَاحthe place to which camels, and sheep or goats, and cows or bulls, are driven, …Lanepassive, Form IVLaneIbn Fāris
  • مُرَوَّحperfumedLanepassive, Form IILaneIbn Fāris
  • رَائِحactive, Form ILane
  • مُرَاوِحshe-camel that lies down behind the other camelsLaneactive, Form IIILane
Place, time and instrument7مَرَاح · مَرُوح · مَرْوَحَة

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

  • مَرَاحplace from which people go, or to which they return, in the evening or …Lanenoun of place or timeLaneIbn Fāris
  • مَرُوحnoun of place or timeLaneIbn Fāris
  • مَرْوَحَةplace in which, or through which, the winds blow, and in which they efface …Lanenoun of place (with -a)LaneIbn Fāris
  • مِرْوَحnoun of instrumentLaneIbn Fāris
Intensives, qualities and the elative5رَيْحَان · أَرْيَح · رَوَّاح

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

  • رَيْحَانcertain plant, well known, of sweet odourLaneintensive (faʿlān)Qurʾān ×2Lane
  • أَرْيَحelative or colour adjective (afʿal)LaneIbn Fāris
  • رَوَّاحvery brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, or quickLaneintensive (faʿʿāl)LaneIbn Fāris
  • رَؤُوحintensive (faʿūl)Lane
  • رَيُوحintensive (faʿūl)Lane
Other nouns15رُوح · أَرْوَاح · تَرْوِيحَة

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

Plurals7أَرْوَاح · رِيَاح · رُوح

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

Relative and abstract6رُوحِيّ · أَرْيَحِيَّة · أَرْيَحِيّ

-iyy relates a thing to its source; -iyya makes an abstract noun.grammar →

  • رُوحِيّalcoholicautorelative adjective (-iyy)library ×3
  • أَرْيَحِيَّةlargeness, or liberality, of dispositionLaneabstract noun (-iyya)LaneIbn Fāris
  • أَرْيَحِيّlarge, or liberal, in dispositionLanerelative adjective (-iyy)LaneIbn Fāris
  • رَوْحَانِيّrelative adjective (-iyy)Lane
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مَفْعَلَةر و حمَرْوَحَة
  • Attested: مَرْوَحَة, noun of place (with -a), “place in which, or through which, the winds blow, and in which they efface …” (Lane, Ibn Fāris)

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

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  • al-Khalīl · 170Al-rūḥ (الروح): the soul/spirit by which the body lives.

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

    Al-rūḥ (الروح): the soul/spirit by which the body lives. One says: kharajat rūḥuhu (خرجت روحه) 'his spirit departed,' i.e., his soul; it is also expressed as kharaja [passively] mentioned [in this sense]; plural arwāḥ (أرواح). Al-rūḥānī (الروحاني) [refers to] created beings such as the angels, and [also] a being created as pure spirit without a body. Al-rūḥ (الروح) [also means] Gabriel, peace be upon him — [he is] Rūḥ al-Qudus (روح القدس, 'the Holy Spirit'). It is also said: al-rūḥ (الروح) is an angel who stands alone and forms an entire row [by himself]. Irwāḥ al-laḥm (إرواح اللحم) means the meat's smell has changed [spoiled]. Al-rawāḥ (الرواح) is [the period] from the sun's decline until night; ruḥnā rawāḥan (رحنا رواحا) means traveling and working in the afternoon/evening. Tarawwaḥa al-qawm (تروح القوم) has the sense of rāḥū (راحوا); he said: 'Let us go in the evening (tarawwaḥ), O ʿAmr, for the afternoon has grown short.' Al-marāḥ (المراح) is the place to or from which one goes in the evening, like al-maghdā (المغدى) in the morning (al-ghudūw). It is said: 'so-and-so has no rawāḥ (رواح) in such a matter,' i.e., no rest (rāḥa). Al-irāḥa (الإراحة) is bringing the camels back in the evening — yarmaḥuhā (يرمحها); and in another dialect, yuharīḥuhā (يهريحها), harāḥahā harāḥatan (هراحها هراحة). And his saying: 'What do you divine today from the scattered/returning birds (al-ṭayr al-rūḥ)...' [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الروح: النفس التي يحيا بها البدن. يقال: خرجت روحه، أي: نفسه، ويقال: خرج فيذكر، والجميع أرواح. والروحاني من الخلق نحو الملائكة، وخلق روحا بلا جسم «1» . والروح: جبرئيل عليه السلام. [وهو] روح القدس ويقال: الروح ملك يقوم وحده فيكون صفا. وإرواح اللحم: تغير ريحه. والرواح من لدن زوال الشمس إلى الليل. رحنا رواحا، يعني السير والعمل بالعشي. وتروح القوم في معنى: راحوا. قال: «2» تروح بنا يا عمرو قد قصر العصر والمراح: الموضع الذي تروح إليه أو منه كالمغدى من الغداة. ويقال: ما لفلان في كذا من رواح، أي من راحة. والإراحة: رد الإبل بالعشي يرمحها، وفي لغة: يهريحها، هراحها هراحة، وقوله: «3» ما تعيف اليوم في الطير الروح

  • al-Jawharī · 393Al-rūḥ (الروح) may be masculine or feminine, plural al-arwāḥ (الأرواح).

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

    Al-rūḥ (الروح) may be masculine or feminine, plural al-arwāḥ (الأرواح). The Qurʾān is called rūḥ (روح), as are Gabriel and Jesus, peace be upon them. Abū al-Khaṭṭāb claimed he heard some Arabs, when relating something to the angels and jinn, say rūḥānī (روحاني) with ḍamma on the rāʾ, plural rūḥāniyyūn (روحانيون). Abū ʿUbayda claimed the Arabs apply this to anything possessing a spirit. A place [called] rūḥānī (روحاني), with fatḥa, means pleasant/fragrant. Al-rīḥ (الريح) is the singular of riyāḥ (رياح) and aryāḥ (أرياح), and may also be pluralized arwāḥ (أرواح), since its origin is wāw, coming as yāʾ only because of the kasra before it; when returned to fatḥa it reverts to wāw, as in arwaḥa al-māʾ (أروح الماء) and tarawwaḥtu bi-l-mirwaḥa (تروحت بالمروحة). One says rīḥ (ريح) and rīḥa (ريحة), as they said dār (دار) and dāra (دارة). Riyāḥ (رياح) is [also] a clan of Yarbūʿ. Al-riyāḥ (الرياح), with fatḥa, [means] al-rāḥ (الراح), i.e., wine; he said: "As though the small birds of al-Jawāʾ at daybreak — were drunkards given to drink pepper-spiced wine (al-riyāḥ al-mufalfal)." Al-rīḥ (الريح) may also mean domination and strength; the poet said: "Will you two wait a little for their heedlessness — or attack, for victory (al-rīḥ) belongs to the attacker?" from which comes His saying, exalted be He: 'and your power (rīḥakum) will depart' [Q. 8:46]. Al-rawḥ (الروح) and al-rāḥa (الراحة) come from al-istirāḥa (الاستراحة) 'resting.' Al-rawḥ (الروح) [also] means the breeze of the wind. One also says yawm rawḥ (يوم روح) and rayyūḥ (ريوح), meaning pleasant. Rawḥ wa rayḥān (روح وريحان) means mercy and provision. Al-rāḥ (الراح) [means] wine. Al-rāḥ (الراح) [is also] the plural of rāḥa (راحة), the palm. Al-rāḥ (الراح) [also means] exhilaration/joy (al-irtiyāḥ); the poet said: "I met with all that all of Maʿadd met — and lost my exhilaration (rāḥī) in youth, and my pride (khālī)," i.e., my vanity. One says: wajadtu rīḥa al-shayʾ (ريح الشيء) and rāʾiḥatahu (رائحته), synonymously. Al-duhn al-muraw waḥ (الدهن المروح) is scented oil. In the Ḥadīth: he commanded [the use of] scented kohl (al-ithmid al-muraw waḥ) at bedtime. Arāḥa al-laḥm (أراح اللحم) means the meat went rotten. Arāḥa al-rajul (أراح الرجل) means the man died. Al-ʿAjjāj said: 'He found rest (arāḥa) after grief and gloom.' Arāḥa ibilahu (أراح إبله) means he returned his camels to the marāḥ (المراح); likewise al-tarwīḥ (الترويح), which occurs only after midday. Araḥtu ʿalā al-rajuli ḥaqqahu (أرحت على الرجل حقه) means I restored his right to him; he said: "Unless you willingly restore (turīḥī) to us our right — apart from the judges, our judge is the ruling [itself]." Arāḥahu Allāhu fa-istarāḥa (أراحه الله فاستراح) 'God gave him rest, so he rested.' Arāḥa al-rajul (أراح الرجل): his breath returned to him after exhaustion. Arāḥa (أراح): he breathed. Imruʾ al-Qays said: "It has a nostril like the den of hyenas — from which it breathes heavily (turīḥu) when it pants." Arāḥa al-qawm (أراح القوم): the people entered into the wind. Arāḥa al-shayʾ (أراح الشيء) means he caught its scent. One says: arāḥanī al-ṣaydu (أراحني الصيد) when the game caught the scent of a human. And likewise... [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الروح يذكر ويؤنث، والجمع الأرواح. ويسمى القرآن روحا، وكذلك جبريل وعيسى عليهما السلام. وزعم أبو الخطاب أنه سمع من العرب من يقول في النسبة إلى الملائكة والجن روحاني، بضم الراء، والجمع روحانيون. وزعم أبو عبيدة أن العرب تقوله لكل شئ فيه روح. ومكان روحاني، بالفتح، أي طيب. والريح: واحدة الرياح والأرياح، وقد تجمع على أرواح، لأن أصلها الواو، وإنما جاءت بالياء لانكسار ما قبلها، فإذا رجعوا إلى الفتح عادت إلى الواو، كقولك: أروح الماء، وتروحت بالمروحة. ويقال ريح وريحة، كما قالوا دار ودارة. ورياح: حى من يربوع. والرياح بالفتح: الراح، وهي الخمر، وقال: كأن مكاكي الجواء غدية * نشاوى تساقوا بالرياح المفلفل (1) وقد تكون الريح بمعنى الغلبة والقوة. قال الشاعر (2) : أتنظران قليلا ريث غفلتهم * أو تعدو ان فإن الريح للعادي ومنه قوله تعالى: (وتذهب ريحكم) . والروح والراحة من الاستراحة. والروح: نسيم الريح. ويقال أيضا: يوم روح وريوح، أي طيب. وروح وريحان، أي رحمة ورزق. والراح: الخمر. والراح: جمع راحة، وهي الكف. والراح: الارتياح. قال الشاعر (3) : ولقيت ما لقيت معد كلها * وفقدت راحي في الشباب وخالي أي اختيالي. وتقول: وجدت ريح الشئ ورائحته، بمعنى. والدهن المروح: المطيب. وفي الحديث: أنه أمر بالاثمد المروح عند النوم. وأراح اللحم، أي أنتن. وأراح الرجل، أي مات. قال العجاج: أراح بعد الغم والتغمم (1) * وأراح إبله، أي ردها إلى المراح. وكذلك الترويح، ولا يكون ذلك إلا بعد الزوال. وأرحت على الرجل حقه، إذا رددته عليه. وقال: إلا تريحي علينا الحق طائعة * دون القضاة فقاضينا إلى حكم وأراحه الله فاستراح. وأراح الرجل: رجعت إليه نفسه بعد الإعياء. وأراح: تنفس. وقال امرؤ القيس (2) : لها منخر كوجار الضباع * فمنه تريح إذا تنبهر وأراح القوم: دخلوا في الريح. وأراح الشئ، أي وجد ريحه. يقال: أراحني الصيد، إذا وجد ريح الإنسي. وكذلك أروح واستروح واستراح، كله بمعنى. والرواح: نقيض الصباح، وهو اسم للوقت من زوال الشمس إلى الليل. وقد يكون مصدر قولك راح يروح رواحا، وهو نقيض قولك غدا يغدو غدوا. وتقول: خرجوا برواح من العشي ورياح بمعنى. وسرحت الماشية بالغداة وراحت بالعشي، أي رجعت. وتقول: افعل ذاك في سراح ورواح، أي سهولة. والمراح بالضم: حيث تأوي إليه الإبل والغنم بالليل. والمراح بالفتح: الموضع الذي يروح منه القوم أو يروحون إليه، كالمغدى من الغداة. يقال: ما ترك فلان من أبيه مغدى ولا مراحا، إذا أشبهه في أحواله كلها. والمروحة بالكسر: ما يتروح بها، والجمع المراوح. والمروحة بالفتح: المفازة. قال الشاعر (1) : كأن راكبها غصن بمروحة * إذا تدلت به أو شارب ثمل والجمع المراويح، وهي المواضع التى تخترق فيها الرياح. وأروح الماء وغيره، أي تغيرت ريحه. وأروحني الصيد، أي وجد ريحي. وتقول: أروحت من فلان طيبا. وراح اليوم يراح، إذا اشتدت ريحه. ويوم راح: شديد الريح. فإذا كان طيب الريح قالوا: ريح بالتشديد، ومكان ريح أيضا. وريح الغدير على ما لم يسم فاعله، إذا ضربته الريح، فهو مروح. وقال يصف رمادا: مكتئب اللون مروح ممطور (1) * ومريح أيضا. وقال يصف الدمع: كأنه غصن مريح ممطور * مثل مشوب ومشيب، بنى على شيب. وراح الشجر يراح، مثل تروح، أي تفطر بورق. قال الراعي: وخالف المجد أقوام لهم ورق * راح العضاه بهم (2) والعرق مدخول وراح فلان للمعروف يراح راحة، إذا أخذته له خفة وأريحية (3) . وراحت يده بكذا، أي خفت له. وقال يصف صائدا: تراح يداه بمحشورة * خواظى القداح عجاف النصال (4) وراح الفرس يراح راحة، إذا تحصن، أي صار فحلا. وراح الشئ يراحه ويريحه، إذا وجد ريح …

  • Ibn Fāris · 395The letters rāʾ, wāw, ḥāʾ form a major, regular root indicating breadth, spaciousness, and regularity, and the origin of all this is al-rīḥ (الريح) 'the wind.' The origin of the yāʾ in rīḥ (الريح) is wāw, but it was chan

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

    The letters rāʾ, wāw, ḥāʾ form a major, regular root indicating breadth, spaciousness, and regularity, and the origin of all this is al-rīḥ (الريح) 'the wind.' The origin of the yāʾ in rīḥ (الريح) is wāw, but it was changed to yāʾ because of the kasra before it. Thus al-rūḥ (الروح) 'the spirit' of a person is derived from al-rīḥ (الريح), and likewise this whole chapter [of the root]. Al-rawḥ (الروح) is the breeze of the wind. It is said: arāḥa (أراح), of a person, when he breathed — this occurs in the poetry of Imruʾ al-Qays. It is said: arwaḥa (أروح), of water and the like, meaning its odor changed. Al-rūḥ (الروح) [also means] Gabriel, peace be upon him; God, exalted be His praise, said: 'The Faithful Spirit (al-rūḥ al-amīn) brought it down upon your heart' (al-Shuʿarāʾ 193). Al-rawāḥ (الرواح) is the afternoon/evening period, so named from the rawḥ (روح) of the wind, since it generally blows after midday; they say 'rāḥū (راحوا)' [they went] at that time, which is from the sun's decline until nightfall. Araḥnā ibilanā (أرحنا إبلنا) means 'we brought our camels back' at that time. As for the saying of al-Aʿshā: "What do you divine today from the scattering birds (al-ṭayr al-rūḥ) — from the raven of separation, or the ill-omened billy-goat?" some said [al-rūḥ] means 'the scattered ones,' others that it means 'those returning to their nests in the evening.' Al-murāwaḥa (المراوحة) in two tasks is doing this one time and that another. Al-arwaḥ (الأروح) is one whose front feet are splayed; one says rawiḥa yarwaḥu rawaḥan (روح يروح روحا). A qaṣʿa rawḥāʾ (قصعة روحاء) is a bowl shallow near the bottom. It is said: al-arwaḥ (الأروح) of people is one whose forefeet are wide apart while his heels are close together — this condition is al-rawaḥ (الروح). It is said: fulānun yurāḥu lil-maʿrūf (فلان يراح للمعروف) 'so-and-so is stirred to good deeds,' when he is seized by an arīḥiyya (أريحية, generous eagerness) for it. Rīḥa al-ghadīr (ريح الغدير) [passive] means the pool was struck by the wind. Arāḥa al-qawm (أراح القوم) means the people entered into the wind. It is said of the dead, when he has died: qad arāḥa (قد أراح) 'he has found rest.' It is said: arāḥa al-rajul (أراح الرجل), when his breath/spirit returns after exhaustion. Arwaḥa al-ṣayd (أروح الصيد) means the game caught the scent of a human. One says: atānā wa mā fī wajhihi rāʾiḥatu dam (أتانا وما في وجهه رائحة دم) 'he came to us with not a trace of blood on his face.' One says: araḥtu ʿalā al-rajuli ḥaqqahu (أرحت على الرجل حقه) 'I restored his right to him.' One says: 'do that fī sarāḥin wa rawāḥin (في سراح ورواح)' i.e., with ease. Al-marāḥ (المراح) is where livestock shelter at night. Al-duhn al-muraw waḥ (الدهن المروح) is scented oil. Tarawwaḥa al-shajar (تروح الشجر) and rāḥa yarāḥu (راح يراح) both mean that it burst into leaf; he said: "The thorn-trees burst into leaf (rāḥa al-ʿiḍāh) among them, while the sweat-vein was faulty..." Abū Zayd: arwaḥanī al-ṣaydu irwāḥan (أروحني الصيد إرواحا) means the game caught your scent. Arwaḥtu min fulānin ṭīban (أروحت من فلان طيبا) [I caught a pleasant scent from so-and-so]. Al-Kisāʾī used to say: lam yariḥ rāʾiḥata al-jannati (لم يرح رائحة الجنة) 'he did not catch the scent of Paradise,' from arahtu (أرحت); but it is also permissible to say lam yariḥ (لم يرح), from rāḥa yarāḥu (راح يراح) meaning to catch a scent. It is said: kharajū bi-riyāḥin min al-ʿashiyyi wa bi-rawāḥin wa irwāḥin (خرجوا برياح من العشي وبرواح وإرواح) [they went out in the evening breeze/at evening]. Abū Zayd said: rāḥat al-ibilu tarāḥu (راحت الإبل تراح) and arahtuhā anā (أرحتها أنا) 'I brought them back,' from His saying, exalted be His majesty: 'when you bring [them] back (ḥīna turīḥūn)' (al-Naḥl 6). Rāḥa al-farasu yarāḥu rāḥatan (راح الفرس يراح راحة) means the horse became strong/hardy. Al-mirwaḥa (المروحة) is a place through which the wind passes; it is said this was [coined by] ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, though it is also said he merely quoted it: "As though its rider were a branch in a windy spot (mirwaḥa) — when it dangled with him, or [like] a drunken drinker." Al-rīḥ (الريح) is that which has scent; one says yawm rīḥ (يوم ريح) 'a pleasant day,' and yawm rāḥ (يوم راح) 'a day of strong wind' — they said this is formed like their saying kabsh ṣāf (كبش صاف) 'a ram thick with wool.' As for the saying of Abū Kabīr: "And water I came upon at a watering-place — like the gait of the fierce wolf catching the cool breeze (yurāḥu al-shafīfā)" that refers to its catching the scent/breeze (al-rawḥ). Al-tarwīḥa (الترويحة) in Ramaḍān was so named for the people's resting (istirāḥa) after every four rakʿas. Al-rāḥ (الراح) is the plural of rāḥa (راحة) 'the palm of the hand'; ʿAbīd said: "Near, trailing low above the ground its fringe — it is about to push away whoever stands with palms upraised (al-rāḥ)." Al-rāḥ (الراح) [also means] wine; al-Aʿshā said: "And I have indeed drunk wine (al-rāḥ), well you know — on the day of encampment and the day of departure." And one says: a calamity befell so-and-so, then God gave relief (fa-irtāḥa Allāhu)... [entry continues]

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    الراء والواو والحاء أصل كبير مطرد يدل على سعة وفسحة واطراد وأصل ذلك كله الريح وأصل الياء في الريح الواو وإنما قلبت ياء لكسرة ما قبلها فالروح روح الإنسان وإنما هو مشتق من الريح وكذلك الباب كله والروح نسيم الريح ويقال أراح الإنسان إذا تنفس وهو في شعر امرئ القيس ويقال أروح الماء وغيره تغيرت رائحته والروح جبرئيل عليه السلام قال الله جل ثناؤه ( نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك الشعراء193 ) والرواح العشي وسمي بذلك لروح الريح فإنها في الأغلب تهب بعد الزوال وراحوا في ذلك الوقت وذلك من لدن زوال الشمس إلى الليل وأرحنا إبلنا رددناها ذلك الوقت فأما قول الأعشى : — ما تعيف اليوم في الطير الروح … من غراب البين أو تيس برح … فقال قوم هي المتفرقة وقال آخرون هي الرائحة إلى أوكارها والمراوحة في العملين أن يعمل هذا مرة و هذا مرة والأروح الذي في صدور قدميه انبساط يقال روح يروح روحا وقصعة روحاء قريبة القمر ويقال الأروح من الناس الذي يتباعد صدور قدميه ويتدانى عقباه وهو بين الروح ويقال فلان يراح للمعروف إذا أخذته له أريحية وقد ريح الغدير أصابته الريح وأراح القوم دخلوا في الريح ويقال للميت إذا قضى قد أراح ويقال أراح الرجل إذا رجعت إليه نفسه بعد الإعياء وأروح الصيد إذا وجد ريح الإنسي ويقال أتانا وما في وجهه رائحة دم ويقال أرحت على الرجل حقه إذا رددته إليه وأفعل ذلك في سراح ورواح أي في سهولة والمراح حيث تأوي الماشية بالليل والدهن المروح المطيب وقد تروح الشجر وراح يراح معناهما أن يتفطر بالورق قال : — راح العضاه بهم والعرق مدخول … أبو زيد أروحني الصيد إرواحا إذا وجد ريحك وأروحت من فلان طيبا وكان الكسائي يقول لم يرح رائحة الجنة من أرحت ويجوز أن يقال لم يرح من راح يراح إذا وجد الريح ويقال خرجوا برياح من العشي وبرواح وإرواح قال أبو زيد راحت الإبل تراح وأرحتها أنا من قوله جل جلاله ( حين تريحون النحل6 ) وراح الفرس يراح راحة إذا تحصن والمروحة الموضع تخترق فيه الريح قيل إنه لعمر بن الخطاب وقيل بل تمثل به : — كأن راكبها غصن بمروحة … إذا تدلت به أو شارب ثمل … والريح ذو الروح يقال يوم ريح طيب ويوم راح ذو ريح شديدة قالوا بني على قولهم كبش صاف كثير الصوف وأما قول أبي كبير : — وماء وردت على زورة … كمشي السبنتي يراح الشفيفا … فذلك وجدانه الروح وسميت الترويحة في شهر رمضان لاستراحة القوم بعد كل أربع ركعات والراح جماعة راحة الكف قال عبيد : — دان مسف فويق الأرض هيدبه … يكاد يدفعه من قام بالراح … الراح الخمر قال الأعشى : — وقد أشرب الراح قد تعلمين … يوم المقام ويوم الظعن … وتقول نزلت بفلان بلية فارتاح الله جل وعز له برحمة فأنقذه منها قال العجاج : — فارتاح رب وأراد رحمتي … ونعمتي أتمها فتمت … قال وتفسير ارتاح نظر إلي ورحمني وقال الأعشى في الأريحي : — أريحي صلت يظل له القوم … ركودا قيامهم للهلال … قال الخليل يقال لكل شيء واسع أريح ومحمل أريح وقال بعضهم محمل أروح ولو كان كذلك لكان ذمه لأن الروح الانبطاح وهو عيب في المحمل قال الخليل الأريحي مأخوذ من راح يراح كما يقال للصلت أصلتي

  • Lisān · 711Al-rīḥ (الريح): the breeze of the air, and likewise the scent of anything;

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

    Al-rīḥ (الريح): the breeze of the air, and likewise the scent of anything; it is feminine. In the Revelation: 'like a wind (rīḥ) in which is bitter cold, that struck the tilth of a people' — this is, according to Sībawayh, of the pattern fiʿl (فعل), and according to Abū al-Ḥasan, of the pattern fiʿl or faʿl. Al-rīḥa (الريحة) is a portion of the wind, according to Sībawayh, who said it is permissible for the singular to convey what the plural conveys; and some have related both rīḥ (ريح) and rīḥa (ريحة), like kawkab (كوكب) and kawkaba (كوكبة), suggesting the two are dialectal variants. The plural of rīḥ (ريح) is arwāḥ (أرواح), and arāwīḥ (أراويح) is the plural of the plural; aryāḥ (أرياح) and arāyiḥ (أرايح) have also been reported, both anomalous. Abū Ḥātim rejected ʿUmāra ibn ʿAqīl's pluralizing of al-rīḥ (الريح) as aryāḥ (أرياح); [Abū Ḥātim] said: 'I told him it is properly arwāḥ (أرواح),' whereupon [ʿUmāra] replied: 'God, blessed and exalted, has said: "and We sent the winds (wa-arsalnā al-riyāḥ)"' [Q. 15:22]; but al-arwāḥ (الأرواح) is [actually] the plural of rūḥ (روح) [spirit]. [Abū Ḥātim] said: 'By this I knew he was not one from whom [knowledge] should be taken.' Al-Tahdhīb: the yāʾ of al-rīḥ (الريح) is [originally] wāw, made yāʾ because of the kasra before it; its diminutive is ruwayḥa (رويحة), and its plurals are riyāḥ (رياح) and arwāḥ (أرواح). Al-Jawharī said: al-rīḥ (الريح) is the singular of riyāḥ (رياح), and may also be pluralized arwāḥ (أرواح) because its origin is wāw, coming as yāʾ only due to the kasra before it; when reverted to fatḥa it returns to wāw, as in arwaḥa al-māʾ (أروح الماء) and tarawwaḥtu bi-l-mirwaḥa (تروحت بالمروحة); one says rīḥ (ريح) and rīḥa (ريحة), as they said dār (دار) and dāra (دارة). In the Ḥadīth: 'the winds of victory blew (habbat arwāḥ al-naṣr)' — al-arwāḥ (الأرواح) here is the plural of rīḥ (ريح). It is said: 'al-rīḥ (الريح) belongs to the family of so-and-so,' meaning victory and dominion; and 'so-and-so had rīḥ (ريح)' [i.e., fortune/power]. In the Ḥadīth: when the wind rose he would say: 'O God, make it winds (riyāḥan), and do not make it a [single destructive] wind (rīḥan)' — the Arabs say clouds are fertilized only by differing winds; meaning: 'make it fertilizing for the clouds, not a punishment' — confirmed by the plural occurring in verses of mercy, and the singular in accounts of punishment, such as 'the barren wind (al-rīḥ al-ʿaqīm)' and 'a bitterly cold wind (rīḥan ṣarṣaran).' In the Ḥadīth: 'the wind is from the mercy of God (min rawḥ Allāh),' meaning from His mercy toward His servants. Yawm rāḥ (يوم راح): a day of strong wind; it may be [grammatically] an active participle (fāʿil) with an elided middle radical, or of the pattern faʿl; and laylatun rāḥa (ليلة راحة) [feminine equivalent]. One says rāḥa yarāḥu rīḥan (راح يراح ريحا) when its wind grows strong. In the Ḥadīth: a dying man told his children: 'Burn me, then watch for a windy day (yawman rāḥan) and scatter me in it' — yawm rāḥ (يوم راح) means 'a day possessing wind,' like their saying rajul māl (رجل مال) [a wealthy man, formed similarly]. Rīḥa al-ghadīr (ريح الغدير) and the like, in the passive, means the pool was struck by the wind, hence it is [called] marwūḥ (مروح); Manẓūr ibn Marthad al-Asadī said, describing ashes: "Do you know the abode atop the hillocks (al-qūr)? — it has faded, leaving nothing but wind-scattered ashes (rammādin makfūr), dull in color, wind-struck (marwūḥ), rained upon." Al-qūr (القور) are small hillocks, singular qāra (قارة). Al-makfūr (المكفور) is that upon which the wind has blown dust; also [called] marīḥ (مريح); and he said, describing tears: "As though it were a wind-bent branch (ghuṣnun marīḥ), rained upon..." [entry continues]

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    الريح: نسيم الهواء، وكذلك نسيم كل شيء، وهي مؤنثة؛ وفي التنزيل: مثل ريح فيها صر أصابت حرث قوم ؛ هو عند سيبويه فعل، وهو عند أبي الحسن فعل وفعل. والريحة: طائفة من الريح؛ عن سيبويه، قال: وقد يجوز أن يدل الواحد على ما يدل عليه الجمع، وحكى بعضهم: ريح وريحة مع كوكب وكوكبة وأشعر أنهما لغتان، وجمع الريح أرواح، وأراويح جمع الجمع، وقد حكيت أرياح وأرايح، وكلاهما شاذ، وأنكر أبو حاتم على عمارة بن عقيل جمعه الريح على أرياح، قال فقلت له فيه: إنما هو أرواح، فقال: قد قال الله تبارك وتعالى: وأرسلنا الرياح ؛ وإنما الأرواح جمع روح، قال: فعلمت بذلك أنه ليس ممن يؤخذ عنه. التهذيب: الريح ياؤها واو صيرت ياء لانكسار ما قبلها، وتصغيرها رويحة، وجمعها رياح وأرواح. قال الجوهري: الريح واحدة الرياح، وقد تجمع على أرواح لأن أصلها الواو وإنما جاءت بالياء لانكسار ما قبلها، وإذا رجعوا إلى الفتح عادت إلى الواو كقولك: أروح الماء وتروحت بالمروحة؛ ويقال: ريح وريحة كما قالوا: دار ودارة. وفي الحديث: هبت أرواح النصر ؛ الأرواح جمع ريح. ويقال: الريح لآل فلان أي النصر والدولة؛ وكان لفلان ريح. وفي الحديث: كان يقول إذا هاجت الريح: اللهم اجعلها رياحا ولا تجعلها ريحا ؛ العرب تقول: لا تلقح السحاب إلا من رياح مختلفة؛ يريد: اجعلها لقاحا للسحاب ولا تجعلها عذابا، ويحقق ذلك مجيء الجمع في آيات الرحمة، والواحد في قصص العذاب: كالريح العقيم؛ وريحا صرصرا. وفي الحديث: الريح من روح الله أي من رحمته بعباده. ويوم راح: شديد الريح؛ يجوز أن يكون فاعلا ذهبت عينه، وأن يكون فعلا؛ وليلة راحة. وقد راح يراح ريحا إذا اشتدت ريحه. وفي الحديث: أن رجلا حضره الموت، فقال لأولاده: أحرقوني ثم انظروا يوما راحا فأذروني فيه ؛ يوم راح أي ذو ريح كقولهم: رجل مال. وريح الغدير وغيره، على ما لم يسم فاعله: أصابته الريح، فهو مروح؛ قال منظور بن مرثد الأسدي يصف رمادا: هل تعرف الدار بأعلى ذي القور؟ ... قد درست غير رماد مكفور مكتئب اللون مروح ممطور القور: جبيلات صغار، واحدها قارة. والمكفور: الذي سفت عليه الريح التراب، ومريح أيضا؛ وقال يصف الدمع: كأنه غصن مريح ممطور مثل مشوب ومشيب بني على شيب. وغصن مريح ومروح: أصابته الريح؛ وكذلك مكان مريح ومروح، وشجرة مروحة ومريحة: صفقتها الريح فألقت ورقها. وراحت الريح الشيء: أصابته؛ قال أبو ذؤيب يصف ثورا: ويعوذ بالأرطى، إذا ما شفه ... قطر، وراحته بليل زعزع وراح الشجر: وجد الريح وأحسها؛ حكاه أبو حنيفة؛ وأنشد: تعوج، إذا ما أقبلت نحو ملعب، ... كما انعاج غصن البان راح الجنائبا ويقال: ريحت الشجرة، فهي مروحة. وشجرة مروحة إذا هبت بها الريح؛ مروحة كانت في الأصل مريوحة. وريح القوم وأراحوا: دخلوا في الريح، وقيل: أراحوا دخلوا في الريح، وريحوا: أصابتهم الريح فجاحتهم. والمروحة، بالفتح: المفازة، وهي الموضع الذي تخترقه الريح؛ قال: كأن راكبها غصن بمروحة، ... إذا تدلت به، أو شارب ثمل والجمع المراويح؛ قال ابن بري: البيت لعمر بن الخطاب، رضي الله عنه، وقيل: إنه تمثل به، وهو لغيره قاله وقد ركب راحلته في بعض المفاوز فأسرعت؛ يقول: كأن راكب هذه الناقة لسرعتها غصن بموضع تخترق فيه الريح، كالغصن لا يزال يتمايل يمينا وشمالا، فشبه راكبها بغصن هذه حاله أو شارب ثمل يتمايل من شدة سكره، وقوله إذا تدلت به أي إذا هبطت به من نشز إلى مطمئن، ويقال إن هذا البيت قديم. وراح ريح الروضة يراحها، وأراح يريح إذا وجد ريحها؛ وقال الهذلي: وماء وردت على زورة، ... كمشي السبنتى يراح الشفيفا الجوهري: راح الشيء يراحه ويريحه إذا وجد ريحه، وأنشد البيت [وماء وردت] قال ابن بري: هو لصخر الغي، والزورة هاهنا: البعد؛ وقيل: انحراف عن الطريق. والشفيف: لذع البرد. والسبنتى: النمر. والمروحة، بكسر الميم: التي يتروح بها، كسرت لأنها آلة؛ وقال اللحياني: هي المروح، والجمع المراوح؛ وفي الحديث: فقد رأيتهم يتروحون في الضحى أي احتاجوا إلى الترويح من الحر بالمروحة، أو يكون من الرواح: العود إلى بيوتهم، أو من طلب الراحة. والمروح والمرواح: الذي يذرى به الطعام في الريح. ويقال: فلان بمروحة أي بممر الريح. وقالوا: فلان يميل مع كل ريح، على المثل؛ وفي حديث علي: ورعاع الهمج يميلون مع كل ريح. واستروح الغصن: اهتز بالريح. ويوم ريح وروح وريوح: طيب الريح؛ ومكان ريح أيضا، وعشية ريحة وروحة، كذلك. الليث: يوم ريح ويوم راح: ذو ريح شديدة، قال: وهو كقولك كبش صاف، والأصل يوم رائح وكبش صائف، فقلبوا، وكما خففوا الحائجة، فقالوا حاجة؛ ويقال: قالوا صاف وراح على صوف وروح، فلما خففوا استنامت الفتحة قبلها فصارت ألفا. ويوم ريح: طيب، وليلة ريحة. ويوم راح إذا اشتدت ريحه. وقد راح، وهو يروح رؤوحا وبعضهم يراح، فإذا كان اليوم ريحا طيبا، قيل: يوم ريح وليلة ريحة، وقد راح، وهو يروح روحا. والروح: برد نسيم ا …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

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

    رَاحَ

    1. رَاحَ, (S, Msb, K,) sec. pers. رِحْتَ, (Msb,) aor. يَرَاحُ, (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. رِيحٌ; (K;) and aor. يَرُوحُ, (Msb, TA,) inf. n. رَوْحٌ, (Msb,) or رُؤُوحٌ; (TA;) It (a day) was violently windy. (S, Msb, K.) And راح, aor. يَرُوحُ, inf. n. رُؤُوحٌ, It (a day) was one of good, or pleasant, wind. (TA.) راح, aor. يَرَاحُ, inf. n. رَوْحٌ, It was, or became, cool and pleasant [by means of the wind]. (L.) It (a house, or tent, the door being opened,) [was, or became, aired by the wind; or] was entered by the wind. (L.) راح الشَّجَرُ The trees felt the wind. (AHn, K.) [See also another meaning below.] [Hence, perhaps,] راح, aor. يَرَاحُ, inf. n. رَاحٌ, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, or quick; [as though he felt the wind and was refreshed by it;] (L;) as also ارتاح: (S, A, L, K:) رَاحٌ and اِرْتِيَاحٌ signify the same: (S, L, K: [in the CK, الاِرْتِياحِ is erroneously put for الاِرْتِيَاحُ:]) and اِسْتَرْوَحَ (assumed tropical:) he (a man) became light, or active, and quick; syn. شَمَّرَ. (Msb.) You say, راح لِلشَّىْءِ [and إِلَى الشَّىْءِ] and ارتاح [and ارتاح بِهِ] (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, brisk, lively, &c., as above, at the thing, [or betook himself with briskness, liveliness, &c., to the thing,] and was rejoiced by it. (Lth, TA.) A poet says, [(assumed tropical:) And thou assertedst that thou dost not, or wilt not, betake thyself with briskness, &c., to women, nor be rejoiced by them]. (Lth, TA.) And راح لِلْأَمْرِ i. q. ارتاح [He betook himself with briskness, &c., to the thing, or affair; or was brisk, &c., to do it]. (TA.) And راح لِذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ, (L, K,) and إِلَيْهِ, (L,) aor. يَرَاحٌ, inf. n. رَوَاحٌ and رُؤُوحٌ and رَاحٌ and رِيَاحَةٌ (L, K) and رَاحَةٌ and أَرْيَحِيَّةٌ, (L,) (assumed tropical:) He brightened in countenance at that thing, (L, [there explained by أَشْرَقَ لَهُ, and this I regard as the right reading, rather than that which I find in the copies of the K, which is أَشْرَفَ لَهُ, perhaps meaning the same as أَشْرَفَ عَلَيْهِ, i. e. he became acquainted with that thing, or knew it, syn. اِطَّلَعَ عَلَيْهِ,]) and rejoiced in it, or at it, (L, K,) and was thereby affected with alacrity, cheerfulness, briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, disposing him to promptness in acts of kindness or beneficence: said of a generous man when he is asked to confer a gift; and sometimes, metaphorically, of dogs when called by their owner, and of other animals. (L.) [It is also said that] رَوَاحٌ and رَوَاحَةٌ and رَاحَةٌ and رَوْحَةٌ and رَوِيحَةٌ [all app. inf. ns. of رَاحَ, or some of them may be simple substs.,] and مُرَايَحَةٌ [as though inf. n. of رَايَحَ] (L, K) signify (assumed tropical:) The experiencing relief from grief or sorrow, after suffering therefrom: (L:) or the experiencing the joy, or happiness, arising from certainty. (K. [See also رَوْحٌ, below.]) You say also, إِلَى حَدِيثِهِ اِسْتَرْوَحْتُ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) I was affected with cheerfulness, liveliness, or the like, at his discourse, or narration; as seems to be indicated by the context in the place where it is mentioned: or perhaps, he trusted to his discourse, and became quiet, or easy, in mind; agreeably with an explanation of the verb which see below]: (A:) or الى حديثه استراح (assumed tropical:) he inclined to his discourse. (MA.) And راح لِلْمَعْرُوفِ, (S, A, L, K,) sec. pers. رِحْتَ, (L,) aor. يَرَاحُ, inf. n. رَاحَةٌ (S, L, K) and رِيحٌ; (L;) and له ارتاح; (A, L;) (tropical:) He was affected with alacrity, cheerfulness, briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, disposing him to promptness to do what was kind or beneficent: (As, S, L, K:) he inclined to, and loved, kindness or beneficence. (L.) And لِلنَّدَى ارتاح (assumed tropical:) [He was affected with alacrity, &c., and so disposed to bounty or liberality]. (S, K.) And نَزَلَتْ ٱللّٰهُ بِرَحْمَتِهِ فَأَنْقَذَهُ مِنْهَا بِهِ بَلِيَّةٌ فَٱرْتَاحَ (tropical:) [A trial, or an affliction, befell him, and God was active and prompt with his mercy, and delivered him from it]: (T:) but ISd disapproves of thus speaking of God; and El-Fárisee says that it is an instance of the rudeness of speech characteristic of Arabs of the desert. (TA.) [Hence seems to have originated, as is app. implied in the TA, the assertion that] الاِرْتِيَاحُ signifies (assumed tropical:) The being merciful: and ٱللّٰهُ لَهُ بِرَحْمَتِهِ ارتاح, (assumed tropical:) God delivered him from trial, or affliction: (K:) or ٱللّٰهُ لِفُلَانٍ ارتاح (assumed tropical:) God was merciful to such a one. (S.) One also says, راحت يَدُهُ لِكَذَا, (K,) or بِكَذَا, (S L,) (tropical:) His hand was active, prompt, or quick, (S, L, K, TA,) to do such a thing, (K, TA,) or with such a thing; (S, L, TA;) as, for instance, with a sword, to strike with it. (L.) Hence the saying of the Prophet, مَنْ رَاحَ إِلَى الجُمُعَةِ فِى السَّاعَةِ الأُولَى فَكَأَنَّمَا قَدَّمَ بَدَنَةً (tropical:) [Whosoever is brisk, or prompt, or quick, in repairing to the Friday-prayers in the first hour, he is as though he offered a camel, or a cow or bull, for sacrifice at Mekkeh]: (K, * TA:) the meaning is, خَفَّ إِلَيْهَا, (K, TA,) and مَضَى; (TA;) not the going in the latter part of the day. (K, * TA.) [See also what follows.] رَاحَ, aor. يَرُوحُ, inf. n. رَوَاحٌ; and تروّح; both signify the same; (S, Msb, K, &c.;) contr. of غَدَا; (S;) said of a man, (TA,) and of a company of men, (K, TA,) He, and they, went, or journeyed, or worked, or did a thing, in the evening, (K, TA,) or in the afternoon, i. e., from the declining of the sun from the meridian until night: (IF, Msb, K, TA:) this is said to be the primary meaning: (TA:) but they also mean he, or they, returned: (Msb:) and went, or journeyed, at any time: (Msb, * TA:) [for] الرَّوَاحُ is not, as some imagine it to be, only [the going, or journeying,] in the last, or latter, part of the day; but is used by the Arabs as meaning the going, or journeying, at any time of the night or day; as also الغُدُوُّ: so say Az and others: (Msb:) or راح, inf. n. رَوَاحٌ, signifies he came, or went, after the declining of the sun from the meridian: but is sometimes used as meaning he went in an absolute sense: (Mgh:) and thus it means in the trad. commencing مَنْ رَاحَ إِلَى الجُمُعَةِ [mentioned above, where a different explanation of the verb is given]: (Mgh, * Msb:) and [in like manner] one says to his companion or companions, تَرَوَّحْ or تَرَوَّحُوا as meaning Go, or journey: (TA:) but رَاحَتِ الإِبِلُ, (S, L, K,) aor. تَرُوحُ and تَرَاحُ, inf. n. رَوَاحٌ (L) and رَائِحَةٌ, (AZ, L, K,) signifies only The camels returned in the evening, or afternoon, (S, * Msb,) when their pastors drove or brought them back to their owners: so says Az. (Msb.) You say, رُحْتُ إِلَيْهِمْ and عِنْدَهُمْ, inf. n. رَوْحٌ and رَوَاحٌ, I went, (K, TA,) and I came, (TA,) to them in the evening, or afternoon; [or at any time, as appears from what has been said above;] and so رُحْتُهُمْ, (K, TA,) inf. n. رَوْحٌ; (TA;) and رَوَّحْتُهُمْ, (K, TA,) inf. n. تَرْوِيحٌ; (TA;) and تَرَوَّحْتُهُمْ: (K, TA:) and أَنَا أُغَادِيهِ وَ أُرَاوِحُهُ [I go, or come, to him early in the morning, in the first part of the day, or between the time of the prayer of daybreak and sunrise, and I go, or come, to him in the evening, or afternoon, app. he doing the like to me]. (A. [See also 6.]) And رَاحَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِبِلُهُ, and غَنَمُهُ, and مَالُهُ, His camels, and his sheep or goats, and his cattle, returned to him after the declining of the sun from the meridian; only at that time: and اراحت may perhaps be a dial. var. thereof: (L, TA:) or راحت بِالعَشِىِّ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا they (i. e. camels) returned from the place of pasture in the evening, or afternoon, to their owners. (S, * Msb.) راح الشَّجَرُ, (S, A, K,) aor. يَزَاحُ; (S, A;) and تروّح; (S, A;) [said in the TA to be tropical, but not so in the A;] The trees broke forth with leaves: (S, A, K:) or the former, the trees broke forth with leaves before the winter, when the night became cold, without rain; (As, TA;) and so the latter: (L:) or the latter, the trees broke forth with leaves after the close of the صَيْف [or summer]: (S, TA:) and الغُصْنُ تروّح The branch put forth leaves after other leaves had fallen from it. (R, TA.) [See another meaning of راح الشجر near the beginning of this art.] راح, (S, K,) aor. يَرَاحُ, inf. n. رَاحَةٌ, (S,) said of a horse, [perhaps from the same verb as signifying “ he was, or became, brisk, lively, ” &c.,] He became a stallion, or fit to cover. (S, K.) رَاحَتْهُ الرِّيحُ, aor. تَرَاحُ, The wind smote it; namely, a thing; (L, K;) as, for instance, a tree, and said of a tempestuous wind. (L.) And رِيحَ, said of a pool of water left by a torrent, It was smitten [or blown upon] by the wind. (S, A, K.) In like manner also it is said of other things. (TA.) One says, رِيحَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ The tree was blown upon by the wind: or was blown about, or shaken, by the wind, so that its leaves were made to fall: or had the dust scattered upon it by the wind. (L.) And رِيحُوا They (a people, or party,) were smitten and destroyed by the wind: (K, TA:) or they entered upon [a time of] wind; (K;) as also, in this latter sense, أَرَاحُوا, (S, K,) or أَرْوَحُوا. (A.) راح الشَّىْءَ, (A 'Obeyd, S, K,) first pers. رِحْتُ, (A 'Obeyd, S,) aor. يَرَاحُ (A 'Obeyd, S, K,) and يَرِيحُ, (AA, S, K,) [inf. n., app., of the former رَوْحٌ and of the latter رِيحٌ as in the phrase of similar meaning following;] and أَرَاحَهُ, (Ks, S, K,) and أَرْوَحَهُ; (AZ, K;) He smelt the thing; perceived its smell, or odour; (S, K, &c.;) as also استراحهُ and اِسْتَرْوَحَهُ: (Ham p. 228:) and راح الرِّيحَ, aor. يَرَاحُ, inf. n. رَوْحٌ; and aor. يَرِيحُ, inf. n. رِيحٌ; and أَرَاحَهَا; He smelt the odour. (Msb.) You say of an object of the chase, أَرَاحَنِى, (S,) and أَرْوَحَنِى, (AZ, S, A,) inf. n. of the latter إِرْوَاحٌ, (AZ, TA,) He smelt me; perceived my smell, or odour: (AZ, S, A, TA:) and of the same, اراح, (K,) and أَرْوَحَ, (T, S, K,) and اِسْتَرْوَحَ, and استراح, (T, S,) He smelt a human being; perceived his smell, or odour: (T, S, K:) and the second of these four, (K, TA,) and the third and fourth, (TA,) he smelt gently, that he might perceive the odour of a thing: (K, TA:) or the third and fourth of the same, he smelt, or perceived, odour: (A:) and these two, said of a stallion, he perceived the smell of the female: and of a beast of prey you say, الرِّيحَ أَرْوَحَ, and أَرَاحَهَا, and استراحها, and اِسْتَرْوَحَهَا, meaning he smelt, or perceived, the odour; and accord. to Lh, some say, رَاحَهَا; but this is seldom used. (TA) [It is asserted (in Har p. 324) that استراح is only from الرَّاحَةُ; but this assertion is of no weight against the authorities cited above.] It is said in a trad., مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا مُعَاهِدَةً لَمْ يَرَحٌ رَائِحَةَ الجَنَّةِ, (A 'Obeyd, S, Mgh, * Msb, *) or لم يَرِحْ, (AA, S, Msb,) or لم يُرِحْ, (Ks, S, Mgh, Msb,) i. e. [He who slays a person with whom he is on terms of peace, (or, as in' the TA, مُؤْمِنًا, i. e. a believer,)] he will not perceive the odour of Paradise: (S, Mgh, Msb:) As says, I know not whether it be from رِحْتُ or from أَرَحْتُ. (S.) You say also, مِنْهُ طِيبًا أَرْوَحْتُ I perceived from him (a man, S) a sweet odour. (S, A.) [And hence, app.,] راح مِنْكَ مَعْرُوفًا, and اراحهُ, (assumed tropical:) He obtained from thee a favour, or benefit. (K.) رَوِحَ, aor. يَرْوَحُ, inf. n. رَوَحٌ, He (a man) had the quality termed رَوَحٌ, [explained below, i. e. width in the space between the thighs or legs; &c.; or] a spreading in the fore part of each foot. (Lth, TA.) And رَوِحَتْ قَدَمُهُ His foot had the quality so termed. (TA.)

    روّح

    2. روّح [He fanned]. You say, روّح عَلَيْهِ بِالمِرْوَحَةِ [He fanned him with the fan]. (A, TA.) And اِحْتَاجُوا إِلَى التَّرْوِيحِ مِنَ الحَرِّ بِالمِرْوَحَةِ [They required to be fanned, by reason of the heat, with the fan]. (TA.) Also, (A, Msb,) inf. n. تَرْوِيحٌ, (Msb,) He perfumed oil; rendered it sweet in odour, (A, Msb,) by putting perfume in it. (Msb.) روّح عَنْهُ; and رَوِّحُوا بِنَا: see 4. روّح بِهِمْ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. as above, (A, Msb,) He performed with them the prayers termed التَّرَاوِيح. (A, Mgh, Msb.) روّح having for its objects camels, and sheeep or goats: see 4. رَوَّحْتُهُمْ: see رُحْتُ إِلَيْهِمْ, in the latter half of the first paragraph.

    أَنَا أُغَادِيهِ وَ أُرَاوِحُهُ

    3. أَنَا أُغَادِيهِ وَ أُرَاوِحُهُ: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. المُرَاوَحَةُ فِى العَمَلَيْنِ, (S,) or بَيْنَ العَمَلَيْنِ, (Mgh, K,) signifies The doing the two deeds, or works, alternately; this one time, and that one time: (S, Mgh, K:) as, for instance, reading, or reciting, at one time, and writing at another time: (Mgh:) and المراوحة بين الرِّجْلَيْنِ the standing upon the two legs alternately; upon each in turn: and المراوحة بين الجَنْبَيْنِ the turning over [upon the two sides alternately, or] from side to side. (K.) You say, راوح بَيْنَ عَمَلَيْنِ [He did two deeds, or works, alternately; he alternated them]. (A.) And راوح بَيْنَ رِجْلَيْهِ He stood upon one of his legs one time and upon the other another time: (S, Mgh:) it is said also of one walking [as meaning he moved his legs alternately]. (A.) And it is said in a trad., كَانَ يُرَاوِحُ بَيْنَ قَدَمَيْهِ مِنْ طُولِ القِيَامِ He used to rest upon one of his feet one time and upon the other another time to give relief to each of them [in consequence of long standing]. (TA.) One says also, راوحهُ He did a thing with him by turns, each of them taking his turn [and so relieving the other: for المُرَاوَحَةُ signifies the giving mutual relief, or rest]. (TA in art. عقب.) [See also 6.] رَايَحَ, inf. n. مُرَايَحَةٌ: see 1, in the former part of the paragraph.

    اراح

    4. اراح He breathed: (S, A, K:) said of a man, (A,) and of a horse. (S.) [It emitted an odour:] it (a thing, Msb) stank; (S, Msb, K;) as also أَرْوَحَ: (Msb, TA:) the former said of flesh-meat, (S, K,) and of water; (K;) and so the latter: (TA:) or the latter, it became altered [for the worse] in odour; (Lh, S, M, A, Msb;) said of flesh-meat, (Lh, M, A, * Msb,) and of water, (Lh, S, M, A, Msb,) &c.; (S;) and so the former, said of water: (L, TA:) ISd makes a distinction between اروح and تروّح [q. v., as does also J,] said of water. (Msb, TA.) Also, (inf. n. إِرَاحَةٌ, L,) He (a man, S, and a beast, Lh) revived, or his spirit returned to him, after fatigue; (Lh, S, K;) like استراح, q. v.: (TA:) and he had rest. (K.) And [hence], (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِرَاحَةٌ, (TA,) or إِرْوَاحٌ, (Msb,) (assumed tropical:) He (a man) died; (S, Msb, K;) as though he found rest: and he (a camel) died, or perished. (TA.) You say, أَرَاحَ فَأَرَاحَ [He rested, i. e. had rest, and so rested others], meaning (assumed tropical:) he died, and so people became at rest from him. (A.) [Hence also,] أَرَحْنَا بِالصَّلَاةِ We performed the act of prayer: because its performance is [a cause of] rest to the soul; the waiting for the time thereof being troublesome. (Msb.) أَرَاحَتْ said of camels &c. [as though meaning They returned in the evening, or afternoon, to rest]: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. اراح, inf. n. إِرَاحَةٌ and إِرَاحٌ, said of a man, His camels, and sheep or goats, and cattle, returned to him in the evening, or afternoon, from pasture. (L.) And اراح, [app. for اراح بَعِيرَهُ,] like wise said of a man, He alighted from his camel to rest him and to alleviate him. (L.) أَرَاحُوا, or أَرْوَحُوا: see 1, in the last quarter of the paragraph. أَرَاحَهُ and أَرْوَحَهُ, and اراح الرِّيحَ, &c.: see 1, in the last quarter of the paragraph, in twelve places. اراحهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِرَاحَةٌ, (Msb, TA,) and رَاحَةٌ is a subst. used as an inf. n., [i. e. a quasi-inf. n.,] like طَاعَةٌ and عَارَةٌ used as inf. ns. of أَطَاعَهُ and أَعَارَهُ, (TA,) said of God, (S, K,) or of a man, (A, Msb,) He rested him, made him to be at rest or at ease, or gave him rest; (S, * A, * Msb;) namely, a hired man, (Msb,) or any man; as also عَنْهُ روّح: (TA:) and the former, He (God) caused him to enter into a state of rest, (K, TA,) or of mercy. (TA.) And بِنَا رَوِّحُوا (K in art. لث) Give ye us rest. (TK in that art.) And اراح بَعِيرَهُ He revived, or recovered, his camel. (TA.) [Hence,] اراح النَّاسَ بِالصَّلَاةِ He chanted the call to prayer, and so made the people to ease their hearts by performing the act of prayer. (L.) And اراح, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. إِرَاحَةٌ; (M, Mgh;) accord. to one dial., هَرَاحَ, aor. يُهَرِيحُ; (TA;) and روّح, (S, * A, TA,) inf. n. تَرْوِيحٌ; (S;) He (the pastor, Msb) drove back, or brought back, (S, M, Msb, K,) camels, (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) and sheep or goats, (M, A, * Mgh,) and cows or bulls, (A, * Mgh,) in the evening, or afternoon, (M, Msb,) after the declining of the sun from the meridian, (S,) [from their place of pasture,] to their nightly resting-place, (S, M, K,) or إِلَى أَهْلِهَا [and عَلَى أَهْلِهَا (for you say رَاحَتْ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا) i. e. to their owners]. (Msb.) [Hence,] اراح عَلَيْهِ حَقَّهُ (assumed tropical:) He restored to him his right, or due; (S, K;) as also أَرْوَحَ. (K.) And the saying, in a trad., of Umm-Zara, اراح عَلَىَّ نَعَمًا ثَرِيًّا (assumed tropical:) He gave me much cattle: because she was [as though she were] a مُرَاح for his bounty. (L.)

    تروّح

    5. تروّح [He fanned himself]. (A, TA.) And تروّح بِمِرْوَحَةٍ [He fanned himself with a fan]. (S, Msb, K.) رَأَيْتُهُمْ يَتَرَوَّحُونَ فِى الضُّحَى, occurring in a trad., means I saw them requiring the being fanned with the fan (التَّرْوِيح بِالمِرْوَحَة) by reason of the heat [in the morning after sunrise]: or it may mean returning to their tents or houses: or seeking rest. (TA.) تروّحت الرَّائِحَةُ The odour exhaled, or diffused itself. (Msb.) تروّح said of water, It acquired the odour of another thing by reason of its nearness thereto. (S, A, Msb, K.) See also 4. See also 10: and see 1, in five places. تروّح said of herbage, It became tall: (S, K:) and in like manner said of trees; as well as in well as in another sense explained in the first paragraph. (TA.) تَرَيُّحٌ, thought by ISd to be an inf. n., of which the verb is تَرَيَّحَ: see أَرْيَحِيَّةٌ.

    تَرَاوَحَا عَمَلًا

    6. تَرَاوَحَا عَمَلًا (TA) and اِرْتَوَحَاهُ, (K, TA,) [like تَعَاوَرَاهُ and اِعْتَوَرَاهُ,] They two did a deed, or work, by turns, [resting by turns,] or alternately; syn. تَعَاقَبَاهُ. (K, TA.) And تراوحوا أَمْرًا They did a thing by turns; syn. تعاوروهُ. (TA.) [Hence,] إِنَّ يَدَيْهِ لَتَتَرَاوَحَانِ بِالمَعْرُوفِ (S, A *) [in the S, the context implies that the meaning is, Verily his two hands are occupied alternately in doing that which is kind, or beneficent: in the A, it is said to be tropical, and the context seems to indicate that the meaning is, (tropical:) his two hands vie, one with the other, in promptness to do that which is kind, or beneficent]. تراوحوا لِبُيُوتِهِمْ and تراوحوا بُيُوتَهُمْ [They went in the evening, or afternoon, to their tents, or houses, app. meaning one to another's tent, or house, by turns]. (A.) [See also 3.]

    ارتاح

    8. ارتاح, and its inf. n. اِرْتِيَاحٌ: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph, in ten places: and see also 10. اِرْتَوَحَا عَمَلًا: see 6.

    اِسْتَرْوَحَ

    10. اِسْتَرْوَحَ, said of a branch, (Msb, TA,) It became shaken by the wind: (TA:) or it inclined from side to side. (Msb.) See also 1, near the beginning of the paragraph; and see اِسْتَرْوَحْتُ إِلَى حَدِيثِهِ, and استراح الى حديثه, in the former part of the same paragraph. Also, (K,) and استراح, (S, A, Msb, K,) [which latter is the more common in this sense,] and ارتاح, (TA,) and sometimes اراح, q. v., (Msb,) [and تروّح, as quasi-pass. of رَوَّحَ عَنْهُ or بِهِ,] said of a hired man, (Msb,) [and of any man,] He found, or experienced, rest, or ease; [was, or became, at rest, or at ease; rested;] (S, * A, * Msb, * K;) مِنْهُ [from him, or it], (A,) and بِهِ [by means of it]; (Msb;) from الرَّاحَةُ; (S;) quasi-pass. of أَرَحْتُهُ, (A, Msb,) and of أَرَاحَهُ ٱللّٰهُ. (S.) استروح إِلَيْهِ (accord. to the S and K, but in other lexicons استراح, TA) He trusted to, or relied upon, him, or it, and became quiet, or easy, in mind. (S, K, TA.) See also 1, in the last quarter of the paragraph, in seven places. استروح المَطَرُ الشَّجَرَ The rain revived the trees. (L.)

    رَاحٌ

    رَاحٌ Windy; applied to a day: (TA:) or, so applied, violently-windy; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also رَائِحٌ, which is the original form, (Msb,) or may be so: (TA:) fem. of the former with ة, applied to a night (لَيْلَةٌ). (A, TA.) [See also رَيِّحٌ.] One says, هٰذِهِ لَيْلَةٌ رَاحَةٌ لِلْمَكْرُوبِ فِيهَا رَاحَةٌ [This is a windy night: the oppressed in mind has rest therein]. (A.) It is also syn. with اِرْتِيَاحٌ. (S, L, K. [See 1, near the beginning of the paragraph.]) And [hence,] Wine; (S, A, * K;) as also رَيَاحٌ: (S, K:) so called because the drinker thereof becomes brisk, lively, or sprightly; or, accord. to IHsh, because he becomes affected with briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness, disposing him to generous actions: in the L, [which mentions these two words in art. ريح,] the ا in the former word is said to be substituted for ى [and hence the ى in the latter if such be the case]. (TA.) See also رَاحَةٌ, in four places.

    رَوْحٌ

    رَوْحٌ, as an epithet; fem. with ة: see رَيِّحٌ, in two places. Also A gentle wind; a gentle gale; a breeze; the commencement of a wind before it becomes strong; or the breath of the wind when weak: (S, K, TA:) or the cold, or coolness, of such gentle wind. (A, TA.) I. q. نفس [app. نَفَسٌ i. e. Breath; like رُوحٌ]: said to be the primary signification: (MF:) or spirit; [like رُوحٌ;] syn. نَفْسٌ; as in the saying, أَحْيَا النَّاسَ بِرَوْحِهِ [He (meaning God) hath quickened, or vivified, mankind with his spirit: or perhaps the right reading is بِرُوحِهِ]. (A.) See also رَاحَةٌ, with which it is syn. (S, K.) Also (assumed tropical:) Joy, happiness, or gladness; (AA, MF, TA;) said to be a metaphorical meaning, from the same word as syn. with نفس; (MF;) and رُوحٌ likewise has this meaning: (IAar, TA:) or the former, rest, or ease, from grief, or sorrow, of heart. (As, TA.) In the saying of 'Alee, فَبَاشَرُوا رَوْحَ اليَقِينِ or اليقين رُوحَ, the phrase روح اليقين is thought by ISd to mean (assumed tropical:) The joy and happiness that arise from certainty. (TA. [See art. بشر.]) Also (assumed tropical:) Mercy (S, K, TA) of God; thus called as being a cause of rest, or ease; (TA;) and so رِيحٌ; (K;) and رَيْحَانٌ; (L;) and رُوحٌ is said by Az to have this meaning in the Kur iv. 169: the pl. of the first of these three words [and of the last, and accord. to some a pl. of the second also,] is أَرْوَاحٌ. (TA.)

    رُوحٌ

    رُوحٌ The soul, spirit, or vital principle; syn. نَفْسٌ; (IAar, IAmb, L, Msb, TA, and S and K &c. in art. نفس; [but there is a difference between these two words, for they are not always interchangeable, as I have shown in art. نفس;]) [i. e.] مَا بِهِ حَيَاةُ الأَنْفُسِ; (K; [see also رَوْحٌ, third sentence;]) often occurring in the Kur and the Traditions in different senses, but generally signifying [as explained above, i. e.] the vital principle; (IAth, TA;) [or the nervous fluid; or animal spirit;] a subtile vaporous substance, which is the principle of vitality and of sensation and of voluntary motion; also called the رُوح حَيَوَانِىّ; (KT in explanation of the term نَفْسٌ;) or a subtile body, the source of which is the hollow of the corporeal heart, and which diffuses itself into all the other parts of the body by means of the pulsing veins, or arteries: (KT in explanation of the term الرُّوحُ الحَيَوَانِىُّ: [so too نَفْسٌ; q. v.: see also Gen. ix. 4: many of the ancients believed the soul to reside in the blood: see Aristotle, De Anim. i. 2, and Virgil's Æn. ix. 349:]) or the vital principle in man: (Fr, TA:) or the breath which a man breathes, and which pervades the whole body: [and this seems to be the original idea expressed by the word:] after its exit, he ceases to breathe; and when it has completely gone forth, his eyes remain gazing towards it until they close; called in Pers. جَانْ: (AHeyth, TA:) accord. to the Sunnees, the rational soul, (النَّفْسُ النَّاطِقَةُ, [also termed الرُّوحُ الإِنْسَانِىُّ,]) which is adapted to the faculty of making known its ideas by means of speech, and of understanding speech, and which perishes not with the perishing of the body, being a substance, not an accident; as is shown by the words in the Kur iii. 163, which refer to the روح: (Msb:) most of the doctors of the fundamentals of religion forbid the diving into this matter, because God has abstained from making it known: (TA:) the philosophers say that it is the blood, by the exhausting of which the life ceases: (Msb:) the word is masc., (IAar, IAmb, Az, S, M, A, Msb, K, *) thus, with the Arabs, differing from نَفْسٌ, for this they make fem., (IAar, IAmb, Msb,) but the former is also fem., (S, M, A, Msb, K,) app. as meaning نَفْسٌ, (Msb,) as is said in the R; (TA;) and most hold it to be as often fem. as it is masc.: (MF:) one says خَرَجَ رُوحُهُ (IAar, Az, TA) [and also خَرَجَتْ رُوحُهُ, meaning His soul departed, or went forth]: the pl. is أَرْوَاحٌ. (S, Msb.) Also i. q. نَفْخٌ (K) [properly A blowing with the mouth; but here] meaning wind that issues from the رُوح; (TA;) wind, or breath. (ADk, TA.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, respecting fire that he had struck, and upon which he bade his companion to blow, أَحْيِهَا بِرُوحِكَ Give life to it, or enliven it, with thy wind [or breath]. (TA.) And one says, مَلَأَ القِرْبَةَ مِنْ رُوحِهِ He filled the skin with his wind; with his breath. (ADk, TA.) [Hence,] الرُّوحُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) Inspiration, or divine revelation; (Zj, Th, K;) such as is imparted by means of an angel: thus in the Kur xvi. 2 and xl. 15: so called because it quickens from the death of infidelity, and thus is, to a man, like the رُوح which is the vital principle of his body: (T:) or (so says Zj accord. to the L, but in the K “ and ”) the prophetic commission. (Zj, K.) And (assumed tropical:) The Kur-án; (IAar, Zj, S, * A, * K;) whereby God's creatures are [spiritually] quickened, and guided to the right way. (TA.) So in the trad., تَحَايَوْا بِذِكْرِ ٱللّٰهِ وَ رُوحِهِ (tropical:) [Revive yourselves with God's book of religion and religious laws, (or ذِكْر may here have some other meaning,) and his Kur-án]. (TA. [Mentioned also in the A; in a copy of which, in the place of تَحَايَوْا, I find تَحَابُوا, an evident mistranscription.]) And (assumed tropical:) What God ordains and commands (K, TA) by means of his assistants and angels. (TA.) Also Jibreel [i. e. Gabriel]; (S, * A, * K;) called in the Kur [xxvi. 193] الرُّوحُ الأَمِينُ, and [in ii. 81] رُوحُ القُدُسِ or القُدْسِ, as related by Az on the authority of Th. (TA.) [The last of these appellations, or generally, but incorrectly, الرُّوحُ القُدُسُ, is applied by the Eastern Christians among the Arabs to The Holy Spirit; the Third Person of the Trinity.] And [sometimes Our Lord] Jesus. (S, * A, * K.) And A certain angel, (I'Ab, K,) in the Seventh Heaven, (I'Ab, TA,) whose face is like that of a man, and his body like that of the [other] angels: (I'Ab, K:) or certain creatures resembling mankind, but not men: so in the Kur lxxviii. 38: (Zj:) or the watchers over the angels who are watchers over the sons of Adam, whose faces are said to be like the faces of men, and whom the other angels see not, like as we see not the watchers nor the [other] angels. (Th.) See also رَوْحٌ, in three places. Also pl. of رَؤُوحٌ: (L:) and of أَرْوَحُ. (S &c.)

    رَوَحٌ

    رَوَحٌ: see رَائِحٌ, of which it is said to be a quasi-pl. n., in three places. Also Width, wideness, or ampleness. (S, K.) El-Mutanakhkhil [in the TA El-Muntakhal] El-Hudhalee says, (S, TA,) meaning But Kebeer Ibn-Hind, a tribe of Hudheyl, on that day, were lax in the joints of the left hands by reason of vehement pulling [of the bows], having wideness in their right hands by reason of vehement striking with the sword. (TA.) And [particularly] Width, or wideness, in the space between the thighs: (TA:) or width, or wideness, (S, Mgh, K,) in, (S, K,) or of, (Mgh,) [or between,] the two legs, (S, Mgh, K,) less than what is termed فَحَجٌ, (S, K,) or less than فَجَجٌ, (A, Mgh,) with wideness between the fore parts of the feet, and nearness of the heels, each to the other: (S:) or [simply] wideness between the fore parts of the feet, and nearness of the heels, each to the other: (Msb:) or a spreading in the fore part of each foot: (Lth, Mgh, Msb:) or a turning over of the foot upon its outer side: IAar says that رَوَحٌ in the legs is less than فَدَعٌ, and this is less than عَقَلٌ. (TA.) هٰذَا الأَمْرُ بَيْنَنَا رَوَحٌ means This is a thing, or an affair, which we do by turns; as also عَوَرٌ. (TA.)

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗

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

ر و ح

الراء والواو والحاء أصل كبير مطرد يدل على سعة وفسحة واطراد وأصل ذلك كله الريح وأصل الياء في الريح الواو وإنما قلبت ياء لكسرة ما قبلها فالروح روح الإنسان وإنما هو مشتق من الريح وكذلك الباب كله والروح نسيم الريح ويقال أراح …

r-w-ḥ is a great, consistent root indicating breadth, spaciousness, and continuity, the origin of all this being al-rīḥ (wind); and the origin of the yā' in al-rīḥ is wāw, but it was changed to yā' because of the kasra before it. Al-rūḥ is the spirit of man, derived from al-rīḥ, and likewise the whole chapter; al-rawḥ is the breeze of the wind; and it is said 'arāḥa…'

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×57

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

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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 ↗

و

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء، والميم، والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Sībawayh, line 26563 ↗

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء والميم والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Ibn Jinnī, line 986 ↗

ح

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

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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

و

Level of existence: تعيين الرتب والمقامات والمنازل · the determination of ranks, stations and waystations

Divine Name: رفيع الدرجات · Rafīʿ al-Darajāt, Exalted in Degrees

Lunar mansion: الرشا · al-Rashāʾ

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62121

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

ح

Level of existence: الجوهر الهبابي · the dust-like substance (spelled الهبابي in the text)

Divine Name: الآخر · al-Ākhir, the Last

Lunar mansion: الدبران · al-Dabarān

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62076

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

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

و

فهي الأشياء المشتبكة في الإنسان مثل العروق والأصابع وما أشبه ذلك.

It is the intertwined things in the human being, such as veins, fingers and the like.

فهي الأشياء المباينة لبني آدم مثل الأفلاك والجبال وما أشبه ذلك

It is things distinct from the children of Adam, such as the celestial spheres, mountains and the like.

فهي الأشياء المشتبكة المستقذرة أو المبغوضة كالأمعاء ونحوها.

It is intertwined things that are filthy or detested, such as the intestines and the like.

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

ح

فهي تدل على الإحاطة والشمول للجميع.

It denotes encompassing and inclusion of everything.

فهي العدد الكثير الخارج عن بني آدم كالنجوم.

It is a great number external to the children of Adam, such as the stars.

فهي العدد الداخل في الذات أو للذات عليه ولاية كملكية العبيد والدنانير والدراهم وغير ذلك.

It is a number contained within the self, or over which the self has authority, such as ownership of slaves, dinars, dirhams and the like.

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

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 12134 ↗

  • رويالراء والواو والياء أصل واحد ثم يشتق منه فالأصل ما كان خلاف العطش ثم يصرف في الكلام لحامل ما يروى منه فالأصل رويت من الماء ريا وقال الأصمعي رويت على أL12135
  • روثالراء والواو والثاء كلمتان متباينتان جدا فالروثة طرف الأرنبة والواحدة من روث الدوابL12143
  • روجالراء والواو والجيم ليس أصلا على أن الخليل ذكر روجت الدراهم وفلان مروج وراج الشيء يروج إذا عجل به وكل قد قيل والله أعلم بصحته إلا أني أراه كله دخيلاL12145
  • روحالراء والواو والحاء أصل كبير مطرد يدل على سعة وفسحة واطراد وأصل ذلك كله الريح وأصل الياء في الريح الواو وإنما قلبت ياء لكسرة ما قبلها فالروح روح الإنسQ 57 · L12147
  • رودالراء والواو والدال معظم بابه يدل على مجيء وذهاب من انطلاق في جهة واحدة تقول راودته على أن يفعل كذا إذا أردته على فعله والرود فعل الرائدQ 148 · L12190
  • روزالراء والواو والزاء كلمة واحدة وهي تدل على اختبار وتجريبL12204
  • روضالراء والواو والضاد أصلان متقاربان في القياس أحدهما يدل على اتساع والآخر على تليين وتسهيلQ 2 · L12206
  • روغالراء والواو والغين أصل واحد يدل على ميل وقلة استقرارQ 3 · L12221
  • روقالراء والواو والقاف أصلان يدل أحدهما على تقدم شيء والآخر على حسن وجمالL12228
  • رولالراء والواو واللام أصل يدل على لطخ شيء بشيءL12250
  • رومالراء والواو والميم أصل يدل على طلب الشيء ويقال رمت الشيء أرومه روما والمرام المطلبL12252
  • روهالراء والواو والهاء ليس بشيء على أن بعضهم يقول الروه مصدر راه يروه روهاL12255
  • رونالراء والواو والنون يدل على شدة حر أو صوت يقولون يوم أرونان وليلة أرونانة أي شديدة الحر والغمL12257
In the sister scriptsHebrew ר ו חSyriac ܪ ܘ ܚ
Arabicر و ح
Hebrewר ו ח
Syriacܪ ܘ ܚ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩧 𐩥 𐩢
Phoenician𐤓 𐤅 𐤇

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 defines rūḥ as the nafs by which the body lives, and calls the angels rūḥānī, 'created spirit without body'.well attested

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

    Al-Khalīl defines rūḥ as the nafs by which the body lives, and calls the angels rūḥānī, 'created spirit without body'. He names Jibrīl as al-rūḥ and rūḥ al-qudus, and also cites the view that al-rūḥ is an angel who stands alone as a whole row. Under the same head he lists meat whose smell has turned (irwāḥ), and rawāḥ, travel or work from noon to nightfall. Al-Jawharī adds that rūḥ is both masculine and feminine, and that the Quran, Jibrīl and ʿĪsā are each called rūḥ. He also records rūḥānī for angels and jinn, and shows that the yāʾ of rīḥ is an underlying wāw (plural arwāḥ). Ibn Fāris makes rīḥ the origin of the whole root, from which he derives the human spirit, the breeze (rawḥ), breathing (arāḥa), and evening (rawāḥ), 'because the wind mostly blows after noon'. Ibn Manẓūr defines rīḥ as the moving breath of the air and of anything, and reports Abū Ḥātim's dispute over the plural aryāḥ. Lane's form I is concrete: a day that is windy, breezy or cool, and a tent aired by wind. No Mufradāt excerpt was supplied.

    Draws on: al-Khalīl · al-Jawharī · Ibn Fāris · Ibn Manẓūr · Lane

  • Letters & soundAccording to al-Dabbāgh, rāʾ indicates all goods, outward and inward.speculative

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

    According to al-Dabbāgh, rāʾ indicates all goods, outward and inward. Wāw stands for intertwined things in the human being, such as veins and fingers, and ḥāʾ denotes encompassing and inclusion of everything. A symbolist reader might connect ḥāʾ's encompassing with a spirit that pervades the body. In the chapter 198 data supplied, Ibn ʿArabī assigns rāʾ to the Fifth Heaven; wāw and ḥāʾ have no entry. Ibn Jinnī's imsās treats ḥāʾ as a softer, breathier sound than khāʾ (as in naḍaḥa beside naḍakha). A reader in that tradition might find it apt that the word for wind and breath ends in a breathed fricative. Mainstream linguistics treats this as suggestive at most.

    Draws on: al-Dabbāgh · Futūḥāt ch. 198 data · imsās

  • Root structureAmong Ibn Fāris's r-w siblings are several roots of motion or openness: r-w-d (coming and going in one direction), r-w-gh (swerving, lack of fixity), and r-w-ḍ, one of whose two bases is wideness.uncertain

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

    Among Ibn Fāris's r-w siblings are several roots of motion or openness: r-w-d (coming and going in one direction), r-w-gh (swerving, lack of fixity), and r-w-ḍ, one of whose two bases is wideness. These can be set beside r-w-ḥ's 'spaciousness and continuity'. Other siblings show no such link: r-w-y (quenching thirst), r-w-z (testing), and r-w-j, which Ibn Fāris judges to be loanwords. Among the permutations, ḥ-w-r (13 Quranic occurrences) includes 'returning' and 'turning round'. r-ḥ-w, the rotating millstone, is defective in Maqāyīs, and w-ḥ-r (a lizard; rancour in the breast) stands apart. The motifs of turning and return in ḥ-w-r and r-ḥ-w may be juxtaposed with rawāḥ as the evening return of herds, without any claim of derivation.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris r-w chapter · permutations

  • Semitic kin & loanwordsHebrew rûaḥ, Aramaic/Syriac rūḥā and Ugaritic rḥ ('wind, breath, spirit', and in Ugaritic also 'scent') are secure cognates.well attested

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

    Hebrew rûaḥ, Aramaic/Syriac rūḥā and Ugaritic rḥ ('wind, breath, spirit', and in Ugaritic also 'scent') are secure cognates. They show the same union of moving air, breath, smell and spirit found in the Arabic root. The word is inherited. However, the specialised Quranic phrase rūḥ al-qudus closely matches Syriac rūḥā d-qudshā. Jeffery and others treat it as a phrase shaped by Christian Aramaic usage, which would make it a semantic calque on a native word.

    Draws on: Hebrew · Aramaic/Syriac · Ugaritic · Jeffery

  • Quranic exegesisAt Q 2:87 ('We strengthened him with rūḥ al-qudus'), al-Ṭabarī reports readings of the phrase as Jibrīl, the Gospel, and the name by which ʿĪsā raised the dead, and prefers Jibrīl.plausible

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At Q 2:87 ('We strengthened him with rūḥ al-qudus'), al-Ṭabarī reports readings of the phrase as Jibrīl, the Gospel, and the name by which ʿĪsā raised the dead, and prefers Jibrīl. For Q 17:85 ('they ask you about the rūḥ'), the exegetes record opinions that it means the human spirit, Jibrīl, a great angel, or the Quran. Al-Rāzī uses the verse for an extended discussion of the nature of the soul. In Q 15:29 ('I breathed into him of My spirit'), al-Zamakhsharī and others read the possessive as a genitive of honour. The variant rawḥ in 12:87 ('do not despair of the rawḥ of God') is glossed as relief and mercy. The plural riyāḥ (2:164) is the winds whose turning is a sign, and the singular rīḥ in 3:117 is a freezing, destructive wind.

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

  • Philosophy & kalāmIn the medical and philosophical tradition, Avicenna uses rūḥ for the pneuma.plausible

    The word as a technical term in falsafa and theology.

    In the medical and philosophical tradition, Avicenna uses rūḥ for the pneuma. This is a subtle vapour generated in the heart that carries the faculties through the body, and it is distinct from the nafs, which is the incorporeal rational soul. Al-Ghazālī, in the Iḥyāʾ's book on the marvels of the heart, separates two senses of rūḥ. One is this subtle bodily vapour; the other is the knowing subtle entity (laṭīfa) that is the true human reality. Many mutakallimūn held the rūḥ to be a subtle body (jism laṭīf) pervading the physical body. They were cautious about identifying it with an immaterial substance.

    Draws on: Avicenna · al-Ghazālī · kalām

  • Akbarian readingFaṣṣ Ādam opens with the world brought into being as a proportioned phantom (shabaḥ musawwā) without spirit, like an unpolished mirror.well attested

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    Faṣṣ Ādam opens with the world brought into being as a proportioned phantom (shabaḥ musawwā) without spirit, like an unpolished mirror. It is a rule of the divine decree that every proportioned locus receives a divine spirit, referred to as inbreathing (nafkh). Ibn ʿArabī says this is nothing other than the locus's attaining the preparedness (istiʿdād) to receive the ongoing self-disclosure. Adam is both the polishing of that mirror and the spirit of that form. The angels stand to this form, the 'great human', as the spiritual (rūḥāniyya) and sensory faculties stand within a human being. No Iṣṭilāḥ definition was supplied for this root.

    Draws on: Faṣṣ Ādam contexts

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