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رَجْعَةٌ ذ inf. n. of un. of 1; A return; a single act of returning, of going back, coming back, or reverting: (TA:) [and] i. q. رُجُوعٌ, i. e. the act of returning, &c. (Msb.) ― -b2- The returning to the present state of existence (S, Msb, K) after death. (S, K.) So in the phrase, فُلَانٌ يُؤْمِنُ بِالرَّجْعَةِ [Such a one believes in the returning to the present state of existence after death]. (S, Msb, K. *) This was a tenet of some of the Arabs in the Time of Ignorance, and of a sect of Muslim innovators, and of a sect of the رَافِضَة, who say that 'Alee the son of Aboo-Tálib is concealing himself in the clouds, to come forth when he shall be summoned to do so. (L.) ― -b3- The returning, or homeward course, of a military expedition; opposed to بَدْأَةٌ, q. v. (T and Mgh in art. بدأ.) ― -b4- The return of a party of warriors to war after their having come back from an expedition. (TA.) ― -b5- Also, and ↓ رِجْعَةٌ , (S, A, Nh, Mgh, Msb, K,) but the former is the more chaste, (S, Msb, TA,) though the latter is mentioned before the former in the K, (TA,) (tropical:) A man's returning to his wife, or restoring her to himself, or taking her back by marriage or to the marriage-state, after having divorced her; (IF, Msb;) the returning of the divorcer to the divorced woman: (K:) or the taking back to marriage a woman who has been divorced, but not by an absolutely-separating sentence, without a new contract. (Nh.) You say, لَهُ عَلَى ا@مْرَأَتِهِ رَجْعَةٌ and ↓ رِجْعَةٌ (tropical:) [He has a right of returning to, or taking back, his wife after having divorced her]: (S, Mgh:) and يَمْلِكُ الرَّجْعَةَ عَلَى زَوْجَتِهِ (tropical:) [He possesses the right of returning &c.]: (Msb:) and طَلَّقَ فُلَانٌ فُلَانَةَ طَلَاقًا يَمْلِكُ فِيهِ الرَّجْعَةَ (tropical:) [Such a man divorced such a woman by a divorce in which he possessed the right of returning &c.]. (TA.) ― -b6- Also the former, (S, Msb, TA,) and ↓ رِجْعَةٌ likewise, (Msb,) and ↓ رُجْعَةٌ (K) and ↓ رُجْعَى [which is originally an inf. n.] and ↓ رُجْعَانٌ [which is also originally an inf. n.] and ↓ مَرْجُوعٌ (S, K) and ↓ مَرْجُوعَةٌ and ↓ رَجُوعَةٌ and ↓ رَجْعٌ , (K,) the last of these is allowable, (TA,) [being an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n.,] (tropical:) The reply, or answer, of an epistle. (S, Msb, * K, TA.) You say, هَلْ جَآءَ رَجْعَةُ كِتَابِكَ (S, TA) and ↓ رُجْعَانُهُ (TA) (tropical:) Hath the reply, or answer, of thine epistle come:? (S, TA:) and ↓ أَرْسَلتُ إِِلَيْكَ فَمَا جَآءَنِى رُجْعَى رِسَالَتِى (tropical:) I sent to thee, and the reply, or answer, of my epistle came not to me; i. e. ↓ مَرْجُوعُهَا : (S, K, * TA:) and فُلَانٍ عَلَيْكَ ↓ مَا كَانَ مِنْ مَرْجُوعِ (tropical:) What was [the purport] of the reply, or answer, of such a one to thee? (S, TA.) And [in like manner] الرِّشْق ↓ رَجْعُ signifies (assumed tropical:) What is returned against, or in opposition to, [or in reply to,] the simultaneous discharge of a number of arrows in a particular direction. (TA.) ― -b7- See also رِجْعَةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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