رَطْلٌ
1.
(S, O, K) and
رِطْلٌ (K) A man soft, lax, or uncompact; (S, O, K, * TA;) as also
مُرْطِلٌ: (K, TA:) and old and weak: or inclining to softness, and laxness, or uncompactness, and old age: (K:) and a boy slender, slim, or lean, (K, TA,) or, as some say, (TA,) near to attaining puberty, or virility: (K, TA:) or whose bones have not become strong: (K:) or the former, applied to a boy, whose strength has not become fully established; as also
مُرْطَلٌ [thus written with fet-h to the ط]: (O:) plural رِطَلَةٌ: (O, TA:) and the first, i. e. رَطْلٌ, a man who is foolish; stupid; unsound, or deficient, in intellect or understanding; (K;) feminine with ة: (TA:) one who has not, or possesses not, what suffices; or who is not profitable to any one: and also having flaccid ears: (O:) and, applied to a horse, (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, K,) as also
رِطْلٌ, (K,) or, as some say, the latter only, (TA,) light, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K, TA,) and weak: (TA:) feminine with ة, (O, K, TA,) in all the senses. (TA.)
2.
[الرَّطْلُ is also explained in the K as synonym with
العَدْلُ: but perhaps this is a mistranscription for العَدْوُ, verbal noun of عَدَا: see 1, last sentence.]
3.
See also the next paragraph.