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2 رَشَّحَ [رشّح app. He, or it, caused to sweat: this seems to be the primary signification, whence the other significations here following.] ― -b2- رَشَّحَتْ وَلَدَهَا, inf. n. تَرْشِيحٌ, (tropical:) She (a gazelle) trained, or accustomed, her young one to walk, so that he was caused to sweat (فَيُرَشَّحُ [perhaps a mistranscription for فَيَرْشَحُ so that he sweated]): (A, TA:) or she (a wild animal), when her young one became able to walk, walked with him, until, or so that, he was caused to sweat (حَتَّى يُرَشَّحَ عَرَقًا), and became strong. (Mtr, on the authority of Kh, in De Sacy's “ Chrest, Ar., ” sec. ed., iii. 231.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) She (a camel) rubbed the root of her young one's tail, and pushed him on with her head; and went before him, and waited for him until he overtook her; and sometimes gently urged him on, and followed him; as also ↓ رَشَحَتْهُ and ↓ ارشحتهُ . (L.) ― -b4- رَشَّحَتْ وَلَدَهَا بِاللَّبَنِ القَلِيل, inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) She (a mother) fed her child with a little milk, putting it into his mouth by little and little, until he became strong enough to such. (S, TA.) ― -b5- تَرْشيحٌ also signifies (tropical:) A doegazelle's licking her young one so as to remove the moisture that was upon it at the time of its birth; (K, TA;) and so ↓ تَرَشُّحٌ . (TA.) ― -b6- رشّح النّبَاتَ, (A, TA,) or النَّبْتَ, inf. n. as above, (Msb,) (tropical:) It (the moisture, or dew, A, Msb, TA, or the rain, TA) fostered the herbage. (Msb, TA.) ― -b7- رشّح وَلَدَهُ (assumed tropical:) He fed his child well. (Mtr, on the authority of Kh, in De Sacy's “ Chrest. Ar ” ubi suprà.) ― -b8- And رُشِّحَ, (S, A, K,) inf. n. as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He was reared, brought up, or educated, and rendered fit, (S, A, K, TA,) and prepared, (TA,) لِلشَّىْءِ [for the thing], and لِأَمْرِ [for the affair], (TA,) or لِلْوِزارَةِ [for the office of wezeer], (S,) or لِلْمُلْكِ [for the office of king], (K,) or لِلْخِلَافَةِ [for the office of khaleefeh]; from رَشَّحَتْ وَلَدَهَا in the sense expl. in the second sentence of this paragraph; (A;) or رُشِّحَ لِلْخِلَافَةِ means (tropical:) he was made the appointed successor of the khaleefeh: (TA:) and فُلَانُ لِكَذَا ↓ أُرْشِحَ and ↓ تَرَشَّحَ (tropical:) [Such a one was reared, &c., for such a thing]. (A, TA.) ― -b9- And رَشَّحَ مَالَهُ, (A,) inf. n. as above, (K,) (tropical:) He managed, or tended, or took care of, his property, or cattle, well. (A, K.) It is said in a trad., يُرَشِّحُونَ حَصِيدَهَا, meaning (tropical:) They tend [the place of seed-produce thereof], and put it into a good, or right, state, or make it to thrive, in order to its becoming productive; like as is done to grape-vines and palm-trees. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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