ر و ع

ر و ع

Arabic

Root

ر و ع • (r-w-ʿ)

1. related to startling

Derived terms

• Form I: رَاعَ‎ (rāʿa, “to awe, to amaze, to startle; to terrify, to scare, to frighten”)
  • Verbal noun: رَوْع‎ (rawʿ)
  • Active participle: رَائِع‎ (rāʾiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مَرُوع‎ (marūʿ)
• Form II: رَوَّعَ‎ (rawwaʿa, “to terrify, to scare, to frighten, to terrorize, to intimidate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْوِيع‎ (tarwīʿ)
  • Active participle: مُرَوِّع‎ (murawwiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُرَوَّع‎ (murawwaʿ)
• Form IV: أَرَاعَ‎ (ʾarāʿa, “to terrify, to scare, to frighten, to terrorize, to intimidate”)
  • Verbal noun: إِرَاعَة‎ (ʾirāʿa)
  • Active participle: مُرِيع‎ (murīʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُرَاع‎ (murāʿ)
• Form VIII: اِرْتَاعَ‎ (irtāʿa, “to become terrified, to become scared, to panic, to chicken out”)
  • Verbal noun: اِرْتِيَاع‎ (irtiyāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُرْتَاع‎ (murtāʿ)

• رَائِعَة‎ (rāʾiʿa, “amazing thing”)
• رُوع‎ (rūʿ, “bosom, heart, animus, the place where fear is felt”)
• رَوَع‎ (rawaʿ, “amazing beauty, terrific fairness”)
• رُوَاع‎ (ruwāʿ, “vigorous, quick-spirited”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ر و ع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 571
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ر و ع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 211
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ر و ع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 953
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ر و ع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1187–1189
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ر و ع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 442
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ر و ع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 510–511