ر ج ف

أَرْجَفَ as an intrans. v.: see 1, in two places. -A2- And as a trans. v.; act. and pass.: see 1, in two places. ― -b2- [Hence,] ارجف بِكَذَا [originally He put another, or others, into a state of commotion, or agitation, by such a thing; meaning] he told of such a thing without truth, or not according to the true, or real, state of the case: [because he thereby caused commotion, or agitation; or] because the information was unsettled: from رَجْفَةٌ meaning as explained below. (Ksh in xxxiii. 60.) And ارجفوا فِى الشَّىْءِ (S, Msb, K) and بِهِ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. اـِرْجَافٌ , (Msb,) i. q. خَاضُوا فِيهِ [mean- ing They said what was false respecting the thing]: (S, O, K:) or they told many evil tales, and uttered many discordant lying sayings, respecting the thing, in order that the people might become in a state of commotion, agitation, convulsion, tumult, or disturbance, in consequence thereof: whence, in the Kur [xxxiii. 60], فِى المَدِينَةِ ↓ وَالمُرْجِفُونَ [and they who tell many evil tales, &c., in the city:] (O, * Msb:) or ارجفوا فِى البَلَدِ بِكَذَا they told, in the town, or country, of such a matter, in order that they might cause commotion, or agitation, &c., to befall the people, without there being aught [thereof] true in their estimation; from الرَّجَفَانُ signifying “ violent commotion or agitation ” &c. (Har pp. 218, 219.) And ارجفوا , alone, They said what was false ( خَاضُوا ) in [relating] tales of conflicts and factions, or seditions, or discords, or dissensions, and the like: whence, ↓ وَالمُرْجِفُونُ فِى المَدِينَةِ [cited above]. (K.) ― -b3- And ارجفت النَّاقَةُ The she-camel came in a state of fatigue, with her ears flaccid, shaking them ( بِهِمَا ↓ تَرْجُفُ ). (O, K.)

اـِرْتَجَفَ see 1, first sentence.

رَجْعَةٌ i. q. زَلْزَلَةٌ (S, K) [meaning Commotion, agitation, or convulsion; or violent commotion &c.; and particularly an earthquake; or] a violent earthquake: and a vehement cry from heaven: (Jel in vii. 76:) or it signifies, in the Kur-án, any punishment that befalls a people. (Lth, O.)

[ رَجُوفٌ , accord. to Freytag, occurs in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning Put into a state of commotion.] ― -b2- سَحَابٌ رَجُوفٌ Clouds in commotion with thunder, or with much water. (O.)

الرَّجَّافُ The sea; because of its commotion, or agitation. (S, O, K.) A poet says, (S,) namely, Matrood Ibn-Kaab, lamenting the death of ' Abdel-Muttalib, (IB, O,) the grandfather of the Prophet, and eulogizing him, (IB,) اَلْمُطْعِمُونَ الشَّحْمَ كُلَّ عَشِيَّةٍ حَتَّى تَغِيبَ الشَّمْسُ فِى الرَّجَّافِ [The feeders with fat every evening, until the sun disappeared in the sea]. (S, O.) ― -b2- And The day of resurrection: (Sh, O, K:) and the congregation [of the risen]. (K.) ― -b3- And رَجَّافٌ also signifies A certain kind of pace [app. with a jolting motion]. (O, K.)

رَاجِفٌ [Putting into a state of motion, commotion, or agitation. ― -b2- And also, or حُمَّى رَاجِفٌ ,] A fever attended with quaking, or shivering: (O, Msb, K:) deviating from rule [because حُمَّى is fem.]. (Msb.) ― -b3- [The fem., with ة , app. applied to a she-camel or the like, occurs, accord. to Freytag, in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen, as meaning Moving the head in going along.]

الرَّاجِفَةُ , in the Kur lxxix. 6, means The first blast [of the horn on the day of resurrection]: and الرَّادِفَةُ , in the next verse, “ the second blast: ” (O, Bd, Jel, K:) or the former means the motionless bodies that shall be in a state of violent motion at the time here spoken of, such as the earth and the mountains; because of the saying in the Kur [lxxiii. 14], يَوةمَ تَرْجُفُ ا@لْأَرْضُ وَا@لْجِبَالُ : and the latter, “ the heaven, and the stars, which shall be cleft and scattered. ” (Bd.)

اـِرْجَافٌ inf. n. of 4 [q. v.]. (Msb.) [And hence, as a simple subst.,] sing. of [ أَرَاجِيفُ in the phrase] أَرَاجِيفُ الأَخْبَارِ [meaning Tales without truth, or reality: or evil tales, and discordant lies, uttered in order that people may become in a state of commotion, agitation, convulsion, tumult, or disturbance, in consequence thereof: see 4]. (S.) You say, وَقَعُوا فِى أَرَاجِيفَ [They fell into convulsing perplexities, arising from evil and discordant and false rumours or the like]. (AA, S and K in art. تع .)

المُرْجِفَانِ The basin and ewer ( الطَّسْتُ وَالاـِبْرِيقُ ) [that are used for washing the hands before and after a meal]: because they produce a sound when one of them is knocked against the other: as though that sound told of the completion of the meal, and excited [the persons that had partaken thereof] to rise. (Har p. 228.) ― -b2- وَالمُرْجِفُونَ فِى المَدِينَةِ , in the Kur xxxiii. 60: see 4, in two places. [This art. is wanting in the copies of the L and TA to which I have had access.]