[1]
رَتَعَ , aor.
رَتَعَ , inf. n.
رُتُوعٌ (S, Msb, K) and
رَتْعٌ (Msb, K) and
رِتَاعٌ, (IAar, K,)
He (a beast)
pastured at pleasure; (Msb;)
he (a beast, S, TA)
ate (S, K)
and drank (K)
what he pleased, (S,
K,)
and came and went in the pasturage, by day,
(TA,)
amid abundance of herbage, and plenty:
(K:) or (tropical:)
he ate and drank plentifully and pleasantly, in land of seed-produce and fruitfulness,
of green herbs or
leguminous plants and of waters:
(Lth, K, TA:) or (tropical:)
he ate (IAar, K)
and drank
(K)
with great greediness. (IAar, K.) In its
primary acceptation, it is said of a beast. (TA.)
―
2-b2- It is metaphorically said of a man, as meaning
(tropical:)
He ate much; accord. to El-Isbahánee in the
Mufradát, and the A and the B. (TA.) ―
2-b3- You
say,
رَتَعَ فُلَانٌ فِى مَالِ فُلَانٍ (tropical:)
Such a one acted
as he pleased in eating and drinking the property
of such a one. (TA.) ―
2-b4- And
خَرَجْنَا نَلْعَبُ وَنَرْتَعُ
(tropical:)
We went forth [
playing, or
sporting, and enjoying ourselves; or]
enjoying ourselves; and playing,
or
sporting. (S, TA. *) It is said in the Kur
[xii. 12], (TA,) accord. to different readings,
(K, TA,)
أَرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا يَرْتَعْ وَيَلْعَبْ (tropical:) [
Send thou
him with us to-morrow]
that he may play, or
sport, and enjoy himself: or the meaning is,
that
he may walk [
abroad at his pleasure]
and become
cheerful in countenance, or
dilated in heart:
(TA:) and
نُرْتِعْ ↓
وَيَلْعَبُ that we may put our
beasts to eat and drink what they please, amid
abundance of herbage, and plenty, [or
to pasture
at pleasure,]
and he shall play: (K, TA:) and
the reverse, (K,)
يُرْتِعْ وَنَلْعَبُ, (TA,) i. e.
that he
may put our beasts to eat and drink &c.,
and we
will play together: (K, TA:) and with
ن in
each case. (K.) ―
2-b5- And it is said in a trad.,
مَنْ يَرْتَعْ حَوْلَ الحِمَى يُوشِكْ أَنْ يَخَالِطَهُ, i. e.
(assumed tropical:)
He who goes round about [
the prohibited place
of pasturage will soon enter into it]. (TA.) ―
2-b6-
And in another trad.,
إِذَا مَرَرْتُمْ بِرِيَاضِ الجَنَّةِ
فَٱرْتَعُوا, meaning (tropical:) [
When ye pass by a scene of]
the commemoration of the praises of God, enter
ye thereinto; the entering thereinto being thus
likened to the eating and drinking what one
pleases, amid abundance of herbage. (TA.)