رند
رَنْدٌ [a
coll. gen. n.] A kind of tree of sweet odour, (
AO,
T,
S,
A,
Msb,
K,) which distils much (سَيَّالٌ); (A;) of the trees of the desert; (
AO,
T,
S,
A,
Msb;) a kind of tree of the desert, of sweet odour, with the wood of which the teeth are cleaned; not large; and having a berry; (حَبَّة); called [i. e., the tree is called, and not the berry, for the verb is masculine,] غار [a name commonly and properly applied to the laurus nobilis, or sweet bay]:
n. un. رَنْدَةٌ: (
M:) or the myrtle (آس); (
M, A;) this is also called رند, (
Kh,
Msb,
K,) on account of its sweet odour; (
Kh,
Msb;) and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says that the رند is the آس
accord. to all the lexicologists except Aboo- 'Amr Esh-Sheybánee and
IAar, who assert that the رند is the plant called حَنْوَة, and is of sweet odour; but
AO also denies it to be the آس; (
T;) and so does
As: (
S:) or aloes-wood, (عُود,) with which one fumigates; (
M;) عود (or عُودُ الطِّيبِ, with which one fumigates,
AO, and
T,) is also thus called, (
AO,
As,
T,
S,
K,) sometimes: (
AO,
As,
T,
S:) [and
accord. to Forskål, (Flor. Aeg. Ar., cxix.,) the artemisia pontica bears this name.]