ر • ط • ن

, (S, K,) aor. رَطُنَ , (MS, JM,) inf. n. رَطَانَةٌ and رِطَانَةٌ; (S, * K, * MA, MS, JM, TA;) and ↓ راطنهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. مُرَاطَنَةٌ; (TK;) He spoke to him بِالأَعْجمِيَّةِ [i. e. with a barbarous, or vitious, speech]; (S, K;) or, correctly, accord. to Aboo-Zekereeyà, بِالعَجَمِيَّةِ [i. e. in a language foreign to the Arabs]: (TA: [and in like manner expl. in the MA and PS and TK:]) or, [as sometimes used,] in a language not generally understood, conventionally formed between two, or several, persons: (JM, TA:) [or he gibbered, or uttered gibberish or jargon, to him: (see R. Q. 1 in art زم:)] and ↓ تَرَاطَنُوا (S, K) فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ (S) They so spoke (&c.] (S, K) among themselves. (S.) A poet says, (S,) namely, Tarafeh, (TA,)

الفُرْسِ ↓ أَصْوَاتُهُمْ كَتَرَاطُنِ

[Their voices were like the barbarous, or vitious, or rather the foreign, speech, among themselves, of the Persians]. (S.) You say also, رَطَنَ بِشَىْءٍ, meaning He alluded to a thing, not mentioning its name explicitly, or unequivocally. (JM.)

and رُطَّيْنَاكَ means مَا الذَّى تَرْطُنُ بِهِ [i. e. What is that to which thou alludest, not mentioning it explicitly?]: (JM:) or مَا رُطَّيْنَاكَ هٰذِهِ, and sometimes without teshdeed, means What is [this] thy speech? (K.)

, (so in my copies of the S, [like the former of the two inf. ns. of رَطَنَ,] and so in copies of the K,) or رَطَّانَةٌ, (so accord. to the TA, as from the K,) and ↓ رَطُونٌ, (S, K,) accord. to As, Camels when they are many, (TA,) or, accord. to Fr, camels when they are such as are termed رِفَاق [pl. of رُفْقَةٌ], and have their owners with them: (S, TA:) or camels when they are many, and are such as are termed رِفَاق, and have their owners with them: (K:) and accord. to As, they are also termed طَحَّانَةٌ and طَحُونٌ: by رِفَاق being meant those upon which people have gone forth to purvey for themselves wheat, or corn, or other provisions from the towns or villages; each, or every, company being a رُفْقَة. (TA.)

: see the next paragraph.