ر د أ

رَدَّاَ see the next paragraph.

اردأهُ : see 1, in five places. ― -b2- Also He settled, established, or confirmed, him, or it, (K, TA,) in his, or its, state. (TA.) ― -b3- He stilled, or quieted, him, or it. (K.) ― -b4- And He let it down; namely, a veil, or curtain. (K.) -A2- Also He rendered it bad, corrupt, vitious, depraved, or the like; (S, K;) namely, a thing; said of a man; (S;) [and ↓ ردّا=هُ is used in the same sense: (see 1 in art. جشب :)] he made, or asserted, or held, it (a thing) to be رَدِىء [or bad, &c.]. (TA.) ― -b2- And اردأ signifies He did a thing, or a deed, that was رَدِىْء [or bad, &c.]: or he met with, or experienced, ( أَصَابَ ,) a thing that was رَدِىْء . (M, K.) -A3- اردأ عَلَى غَيْرِهِ It exceeded another thing; as also أَرْدَى : (M:) [or the latter only:] accord. to IAar, one says اردأ عَلَى السِّتِّينَ , with ء , (M,) and, accord. to Lth, على الخَمْسِينَ , (TA,) and, [accord. to F,] على مِايءَةٍ , (K,) meaning He exceeded [the age of sixty, and fifty, and a hundred]: (M, K, TA:) but Az says that اردأ , with ء , [in these phrases,] though authorized by Lth, is wrong; (TA;) and accord. to A' Obeyed, one says أَرْدَيْتُ . (M. [It is added, however, in the M, that اردأ may perhaps be also used in poetry in the same sense without the prep. على .])

تَرَدَّوءُوا They helped, aided, or assisted, one another. (Lth, M, TA.)

رِدْءٌ A buttress, or the like, by means of which a wall is strengthened and supported. (T.) [This is the primary signification. See also رِدٌّ , in art. رد .] ― -b2- [Or] the primary meaning is A thing by means of which one is helped, aided, or assisted; such as the دِفْء [or thing by which one is rendered warm, or protected from the cold wind]. (Bd in xxviii. 34; where it has the meaning next following, as is said in the T and S.) ― -b3- A helper, an aider, or an assistant. (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K.) You say, فُلَانٌ رِدْءٌ لِفُلَانٍ Such a one is an aider and a strengthener to such a one. (T.) ― -b4- And i. q. مَادَّةٌ [app. as meaning An accession; or a thing that is added, whatever it be, to another thing]. (M, K.) ― -b5- And (tropical:) i. q. عِدْلٌ [i. e. A burden that balances another burden on the other side of a beast]; (T, TA;) so called because one such ردء supports another: (TA:) and a heavy عِدْل : (T, K, TA:) pl. أَرْدَا=ءٌ . (T, TA.)

رِدَا=ءٌ : see art. ردى .

رَدِىْءٌ , applied to a thing, (T, S, M, Msb,) and to a man, (M, TA,) Bad, corrupt, vitious, depraved, or the like; (S, M, Msb, * K;) of no rank, or estimation; low, ignoble, vile, or mean; (Msb;) disapproved, disliked, hated, or abominable: and weak, and impotent, so as to be in want or need: and accord to the Msb, one says also رَدِىٌّ ; [there said to be a dial. var.;] but this is asserted by IDrst, in the Expos. of the Fs, to be erroneous, and peculiar to the vulgar: (TA:) pl. أَرْدِيءَا=ءُ , with two hemzehs, (M, K,) applied to a people, or company of men. (M.)

[ أَرْدَأُ Worse, and worst; more, and most, corrupt &c.]

مِرْدَأَةٌ A stone which a strong man can hardly lift with both his hands; (TA;) as also مِرْدَاةٌ . (ISh, TA in art. ردى .)