رَابِعٌ

[act. particle n. of رَبَعَ].

The chief who used to take the fourth part of the spoil, in the Time of Ignorance. (Ham p. 336.)

هُوَ رَابِعُ أَرْبَعَةٍ He is [the fourth of four, or] one of four. (TA.)

[رَابِعَ عَشَرَ and رَابِعَةَ عَشْرَةَ, the former masculine and the latter feminine, meaning Fourteenth, are subject to the same rules as ثَالِثَ عَشَرَ and its feminine, explained in article ثلث, q. v.]

إِبِلٌ رَوَابِعُ [Camels coming to water, or being watered, on the fourth day, counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first: plural of رَابِعَةٌ]: from رَبَعَتِ الإِبِلُ, meaning وَرَدَتِ الرِّبْعَ. (S, K.) In like manner, also, رَوَابعُ is applied, metaphorically, to birds of the kind called قَطًا, as an epithet denoting their coming to water, by El- 'Ajjáj. (TA.)

-A2- رَبِيعٌ رَابِعٌ A fruitful, or plentiful, ربيع [meaning the season so called]. (ISk, K.)

One does not say يَوْمٌ رَابِعٌ like as one says يَوْمٌ قَايءِظٌ &c., because there is no corresponding verb, like قَاظَ, &c., for such a verb would have no meaning of heat nor of cold. (IB.)

-A3- هُوَ رَابِعٌ عَلَى حَالِهِ He is abiding, or continuing, in his state, or condition. (TA.)