رِدٌّ

A support, or stay, of a thing: (M, K:) a refuge; an asylum. (Kr, M.) A poet says,

فَكُنْ لَهُ مِنَ البَلَايَا رِدَّا

يارَبِّ أَدْعُوكَ إِلَاهًا فَرْدَا

meaning [O my Lord, I call Thee one God; then be Thou to him] a refuge from trials: and رِدَّا occurs in a reading of verse 34 of ch. xxviii. of the Qur'an; meaning as above; or thus written and pronounced for رِدْءًا, on account of the pause, after suppressing the ء. (M.)