رعش
1 رَعِشَ, (
S,
A,
K,)
aor. ـَ and رَعَشَ,
aor. ـَ (
A,
K;)
inf. n. (of the former,
S) رَعَشٌ; (
S,
K;) and [of the latter,] رَعْشٌ; (
K;) He trembled, quivered, quaked, or shivered; (
S;) as also ↓ ارتعش: (
S,
A, *
K:) or he was taken with a tremour, quivering, quaking, or shivering: (
A,
K:) [or he was made to tremble, &c.; for] رَعِشَتْ يَدُهُ is like ↓ أُرْعِشَتْ [His hand, or arm, was made to tremble, &c.]. (
Zj.) And رَعْشٌ, like مَنْعٌ [in form], signifies The shaking of the head in going along, and in sleep. (
TA.) You say also, ↓ ارتعش رَأْسُهُ His head shook by reason of old age. (
A,
TA.) And يَدُهُ ↓ ارتعشت, (
TA,) and أَنَامِلُهُ, (
A,
TA,) and مَفَاصِلُهُ, (
TA,) His hand, or arm, and the ends, or end-joints, of his fingers, and his joints, trembled, or quivered. (
TA.) 2 رَعَّشَ see what next follows.
4 ارعشه He, (God,
S,
K,) or it, (old age,
A,) made him to tremble, quiver, quake, or shiver; (
S,
A,
K;) as also ↓ رعّشهُ. (
A.) You say also, أُرْعِشَتْ يَدَاهُ [His hands, or arms, were made to tremble]. (
A.) See also 1.
b2: [Hence,] أَرْعَشَتْهُ الحَرْبُ (
tropical:) War, or the war, made him to hasten, or be quick. (
A,
TA. *) 8 إِرْتَعَشَ see 1, in three places.
رَعِشٌ, applied to a man, (
TA,) or to an old man, (
A,) Trembling, quivering, quaking, or shivering; (
A,
TA;) as also ↓ رَعِيشٌ and ↓ مُرْتَعِشٌ (
TA) and ↓ مُرْعَشٌ; (A;) and so ↓ رَعْشَنٌ, applied to a man; (
S;) in which last, the ن is augmentative. (
S,
K.) And in like manner, ↓ رَعْشَنٌ, applied to a hecamel; (
S,
TA;) and رَعِشَةٌ (A) and ↓ رَعْشَنَةٌ (
TA) and ↓ رَعْشَآءُ, (
A,
K,
TA,) applied to a she-camel; (
K,
TA;) or to a beast (دَابَّةٌ), (
A,) and the last of these epithets applied to a she-ostrich; (
S;) (
tropical:) That shakes himself, or herself, (
S,
A,
K,) in going along, (
S,
K,) by reason of speed, (
K,) or from sharpness of spirit, and briskness: (
A:) or ↓ رعشاء, applied to a she-camel, signifies longnecked. (
TA.) And ↓ رَعُوشٌ, applied to a she-camel, Whose head shakes by reason of old age; (
S,
K;) as also رَعُوسٌ; (
S,
TA;) or, as the latter is
expl. in the
K, by reason of briskness, or sprightliness. (
TA.)
b2: (
tropical:) Cowardly; or a coward; (
S,
K;) as also ↓ رِعْشِيشٌ (
K) and ↓ رَعْشَنٌ, (
K in art. رعشن,) and رَعِشُ اليَدَيْنِ; (
A,
TA;) one who trembles in war by reason of cowardice. (
TA.)
b3: (assumed
tropical:) Quick; swift; applied to a male ostrich; (
Kh;) as also ↓ رَعْشَنٌ, applied to the same, and to a camel;
fem. with ة; (
K in art. رعشن;) and ↓ رَعْشَآءُ, applied to a female ostrich: (
Kh,
K:) or the last, thus applied, signifies tall. (
TA.)
b4: فُلَانٌ رَعِشٌ إِلَى القِتَالِ, and إِلَى المَعْرُوفِ; (En-Nadr,
A,
K,
TA;) and ↓ رِعْشِيشٌ; (
K;) (
tropical:) Such a one is quick to fight, and to do good, or confer a favour or benefit. (En-Nadr,
A,
K.) In the
K it is added that it thus has two
contr. significations; but this requires consideration. (
TA.) رِعْشَةٌ: see رُعَاشٌ, in two places.
b2: Also (
tropical:) Haste, or quickness. (
A,
TA.) You say, بِهِ رِعْشَةٌ إِلَى
لِقَآءِ عَدُوِّهِ (
tropical:) In him is haste, or quickness, to meet his enemy. (
A.) رَعْشَآءُ: see رَعِشٌ, throughout.
رَعْشَنٌ: see رَعِشٌ, throughout.
رِعْشِيشٌ: see رَعِشٌ, throughout.
رُعَاشٌ [and ↓ رِعْشَةٌ] A tremour, quivering, quaking, or shivering, that befalls a man in consequence of a disease that attacks him, not quitting him. (
TA.) You say, ↓ بِهِ رِعْشَةٌ and رُعَاشٌ [In him is a tremour, &c.]. (
A.) رَعُوشٌ: see رَعِشٌ.
رَعِيشٌ: see رَعِشٌ.
مَرْعَشٌ A kind of pigeons that soar in their flight and circle in the air; as also ↓ مُرْعَشٌ: (
S,
K:) the latter form being sometimes used: (
S:) or this signifies the white pigeon: or,
accord. to Abu-l-'Alà, the vulture (نَسْر) that has become extremely aged, or old and weak. (
Ham p. 823.) مُرْعَشٌ: see رَعِشٌ:
A2: and مَرْعَشٌ.
مُرْتَعِشٌ: see رَعِشٌ.
Quasi رعشن رَعْشَنٌ;
fem. with ة: see رَعِشٌ, in art. رعش.
