رِيءَاءٌ

a verbal noun of 3 [q. v.]. (M. [Said in the S to be a subst.])

[Hence,] قَوْمٌ رِيءَاءٌ A party, or company of men, facing one another. (S.) And in like manner, بُيُوتُهُمْ رِيءَاءٌ [Their tents, or houses, are facing one another]. (S.) And مَنَازِلُهُمْ رِيءَاءٌ Their places of alighting, or abode, are facing, or opposite, one to another. (T.)

And دُورُ القَوْمِ مِنَّا رِيءَاوءٌ The houses of the people, or party, are as far as the eye reaches, where we see them, namely, the people. (M.)

And هُمْ رِيءَاءُ أَلْفٍ They are as many as a thousand in the sight of the eye. (K, * TA.)