رَشَادٌ
1.
a verbal noun of 1, (L, K,) or a simple subst., (Msb,) [signifying Right procedure; or the adoption, or pursuit, of a right way or course or direction; as to a road, and also as to an affair: and often meaning right belief, or orthodoxy: in both these senses] opposite of
غَىٌّ, (S, A, Msb,) and of
ضَلَالٌ: (Msb:) and
رَشَدَى is a subst. synonym with رَشَادٌ. (L, K. *)
2.
حَبُّ الرَّشَادِ
i. q.
الحُرْفُ, (K,) in the dialect of El-'Irák; (TA;) they gave it this name as one of good omen, because حُرْفٌ is synonym with حِرْمَانٌ: (K:) [رَشَادٌ and حُرْفٌ are names given to several species of Gress; and حَبُّ الرَّشَادِ seems to mean the seed of
رشاد: according to Golius, on the authority of Ibn-Beytár, رشاد is the name of the nasturtium: according to Delile, (Flor. AEgypt., nos. 576, 580, 571, 584, and 610,) it is the Arabic name of the lepidium sativum of Linn.; the lepidium hortense of Forsk.: and the cochlearia nilotica:
رَشَادُ البَحْرِ, i. e., nasturtium maritimum, that of the cakile maritima of Tournef.; Desf., a pinnatifida; the bunias cakile of Linn.; the isatis pinnata of Forsk.: الرَّشَادُ الجَبَلِىُّ, that of the lunaria parviflora: and رَشَادُ البّرِّ, i. e., nasturtium deserti, that of the raphanus recurvatus of Persoon; the raphanus lyratus of Forsk.]