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رَاجِسٌ ذ and ↓ مُرْتَجِسٌ (A, K) and ↓ رَجَّاسٌ (S, A, K) A cloud making a loud, or vehement, sound; (S, A, K, TA;) and so thunder. (TA.) You say, [of a cloud,] هٰذَا رَاجِسٌ حَسَنٌ This is a goodly thunderer. (S.) And عَفَتِ الدِّيَارَ الغَمَائِمُ الرَّوَاجِسُ وَالرِّيَاحُ الرَّوَامِسُ [The loudthundering clouds and the dust-spreading winds effaced the traces of the dwellings]. (A.) ― -b2- [And in like manner,] ↓ رَجَّاسٌ (S, K) and ↓ رَجُوسٌ and ↓ مِرْجَسٌ (K) A camel that brays vehemently. (S, K, * TA.) You say also الحَنِينِ ↓ نَاقَةٌ رَجْسَآءُ , [fem. of ↓ أَرْجَسُ ,] A she-camel that utters the [yearning cry termed] حَنِين consecutively, or continuously. (IAar, TA.) ― -b3- [And hence,] ↓ الرَجَّاسُ The sea: (K:) because of the sound of its waves; or because of its commotion. (TA.) -A2- رَاجِسٌ also signifies The thrower of the مِرْجَاس; (K;) and so ↓ مُرْجِسٌ . (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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