رَدًى
2.
Also Excess, redundance, or superfluity; synonym زِيَادَةٌ: so in the saying, مَا بَلَغْتُ رَدَى عَطِيَّتِكَ, i. e. I have not attained to thy excess, &c., in thy gift: and يُعْجِبُنِى رَدَى قَوْلِكَ
The excess of thy saying pleases me: and so in the saying of Kutheiyir,
meaning [He has a covenant of love, or affection, into which he has entered, which has not been sullied, and] which excess of kind speech, on his part, [recent and of long duration,] adorns: (T:) or, [as ISd cites the verse,] قَوْلِ مَعْرُوفٍ رَدِى &c.: [and he adds,] it is said, in explanation thereof, that رَدِى means زِيَادَة; and I think that it is a verbal noun, of the measure فَعِلٌ, like ضَحِكٌ and حَبِقٌ, or a subst. put in the place of a verbal noun (M.)لَهُ عَهْدُ وُدٍّ لَمْ يَكَدَّرْ يَزِينُهُرَدَى قَوْلِ مَعْرُوفٍ حَدِيثٍ وَمُزْمِنِ
3.
See also رَدَاةٌ.