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رِتَاجٌ ذ A door: (TA:) or a great door; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ رَتَجٌ : (S A, K:) or a door locked, or shut or closed, (S, Mgh, K,) having a small door, or wicket: (S, K:) or it signifies also a door that is locked, or shat or closed: (Msb:) pl. رُتُجٌ and رَتَائِجُ, and, accord. to MF, أَرْتَاجٌ, but this is irreg., and he has given no authority for it. (TA.) Hence رِتَاجُ الكَعْبَةِ [The door of the Kaabeh]: (S, TA:) and (tropical:) the Kaabeh itself: (A, * TA:) and [hence also] الِرّتَاجُ is (tropical:) a name of Mekkeh. (K, TA.) جَعَلَ مَالَهُ فِى رِتَاجِ الكَعْبَةِ, (A, Mgh, Msb, TA,) occurring in a trad., (Mgh, TA,) means, (A, Msb, TA,) or is said to mean, (Mgh,) (tropical:) He made his property, or cattle, a votive offering to be taken to the Kaabeh; (A, Mgh, Msb;) not the door itself; (Mgh;) the Kaabeh being thus called because by the door one enters it. (TA.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) The part of the womb that closes upon the fœtus; as being likened to a door. (L.) ― -b3- أَرْضٌ ذَاتُ رِتَاجٍ occurs in a trad. [app. as meaning (assumed tropical:) A land having a place of ingress that is, or may be, closed: or it may mean a land having in it rocks: see رِتَاجَةٌ, of which رِتَاجٌ may be a coll. gen. n.]. (TA.) -A2- نَاقَةٌ رِتَاجُ الصَّلَا (assumed tropical:) A she-camel firm or compact [in the middle of the back, or in the part on either side of the tail, &c.]. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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