ارتع

He put his camels [to pasture at pleasure; (see 1;) or] to eat (S, K) and drink (K) what they pleased, (S, K,) amid abundance of herbage, and plenty: (K: [in which it is implied that the verb may have this signification or others agreeable with explanations in the first sentence of this article:]) or he pastured his camels, or put them to pasture, by themselves. (TA.) See the example in the Qur'an cited above.

Hence, (tropical:) He ruled, or governed, his subjects well; [as though] leaving them to satiate themselves in the pasturage. (TA.)

It (a party of men) lighted upon abundance of herbage, and pastured. (TA.)

It (rain) produced, or gave growth to, herbage in which the camels might pasture at pleasure, or eat and drink what they pleased, amid abundance thereof and plenty. (S, Msb, K.)

ارتعت الأَرْضُ The land became abundant in herbage. (TA.)