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رِجْعَةٌ ذ : see رَجْعَةٌ, in three places. ― -b2- A return, or profit, obtained by the expenditure of the price of camels sold: see an ex. above, voce اِرْتَجَعَ: (S, K:) or camels taken in exchange for other camels: or one that is taken in the place, and with the price, of two: (Mgh:) also the young, or younglings, of camels, which are purchased from the market with the price of others, or taken from the market in exchange for others: (K:) or, as Khálid says, the [return obtained by] bringing bad camels into the market and taking back good ones: or, as some say, the [return obtained by] bringing in males and taking back females: (TA:) [the words which I have here twice inserted in brackets are perhaps not necessary to complete the sense intended, as will be seen at the close of this sentence; but they seem to be required in the opinion of SM, for he has immediately added the further explanation which here next follows, and which is also, but less fully, given by J, immediately after the first explanation in this paragraph:] and رِجْعَةٌ has a similar meaning in relation to the poor-rates; being applied to camels taken by the collector of the poor-rates older or younger than those which their owner is bound to give: (S, * TA:) and camels which are purchased by the Arabs of the desert, [app. in exchange-for others,] not of their own breeding nor bearing their marks; as also ↓ رَجْعَةٌ : (TA, [see 8:]) IB says that the pl. of رِجْعَةٌ is ↓ رُجَعٌ ; and that it was said to a tribe of the Arabs, “ By what means have your beasts become many? ” and they answered, أَوْصَانَا أَبُونَا بِالنُّجَعِ وَالرُّجَعِ: but Th says, ↓ بالنِّجَعِ والرِّجَعِ : [both are probably correct; for it seems that the original forms are النُّجَع and الرِّجَع; and that, in one case, the latter is assimilated to the former; in the other, accord. to a usage less common, the former to the latter:] accord. to Th, the meaning is, [Our father charged us with the seekings after herbage in the places thereof, and] the selling the old and weak beasts and purchasing others in a state of youthful vigour: or, accord. to another explanation, the meaning is, the selling males and purchasing females: thus explained, رِجَعٌ seems to be an inf. n. (TA. [See رَجَعَ نَاقَةً.]) [See also رَجِيعَ.] ― -b3- [(assumed tropical:) Any return, profit, or gain, accruing from a thing, or obtained by the sale or exchange thereof; as also ↓ مَرْجُوعٌ ; and رَجْعٌ, q. v.] You say, جَآءَتْ رِجْعَةُ الضِّيَاعِ (assumed tropical:) The return, or increase, accruing to the owner of the lands came, or arrived. (Lh.) And جَآءَ فُلَانٌ بِرِجْعَةٍ حَسَنَةٍ (assumed tropical:) Such a one brought a good thing which he had purchased in the place of a bad thing; or in the place of a thing that was inferior to it. (TA.) And ↓ هٰذَا مَتَاعٌ لَهُ مَرْجُوعٌ (assumed tropical:) This is a commodity for which there will be a return, or profit, or gain. (S, * TA) And ↓ دَابَّةٌ لَهَا مَرْجُوعٌ (assumed tropical:) A beast that may be sold after having been used. (El-Isbahánee.) And ↓ لَيْسَ لِهٰذَا البَيْعِ مَرْجُوعٌ (tropical:) There is not, or will not be, any return, or profit, or gain, for this sale. (TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) An argument, or allegation, by which one rebuts in a litigation, or dispute; a proof; an evidence. (Ibn-'Abbád.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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