ارتج البَابَ

, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) verbal noun إِرْتَاجٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ رَتَجَهُ, (K,) verbal noun رَتْجٌ; but As allows only the former verb; (TA;) i. q. أَغْلَقَهُ, [which means He locked the door, and also he shut, or closed, the door, but the former appears to be the signification here intended, from what follows,] (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) so as to make it fast, or firm: (A, Mgh, Msb:) so says Az, after Lth: and, by extension of the signification, he shut, or closed, the door, without locking it. (Mgh.) It is said in a tradition, إِنَّ أَبْوَابَ السَّمَاءِ تُفْتَحُ عِنْدَ زَوَالِ الشَّمْسِ فَلَا تُرْتَجُ حَتَّى يُصَلَّى الظُّهْرُ, (Mgh, * and “ Jámi' es-Sagheer ” of EsSuyootee,) i. e. [Verily the gates of Heaven are opened at the declining of the sun from the meridian,] and are not closed nor locked [until the noon-prayer has been performed]. (Mgh.)

[Hence,] أُرْتِجَ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ (assumed tropical:) The affair was as though it were closed against him, so that he knew not the way to engage in it, or execute it; synonym اِسْتَبْهَمَ عَلَيْهِ. (TA in article بهم.)

See also 1, in four places.

[Hence also,] أَرْتَجَتْ (tropical:) She (a camel) closed her womb against the seed (S, A, K, TA) of the stallion, (TA,) having become pregnant. (A.)

And (assumed tropical:) She (an ass) became pregnant. (K.)

And (tropical:) She (a hen) had her belly full of eggs. (S, A, * K.)

Also أَرْتَجَ (assumed tropical:) It (the sea) became raised into a state of commotion, and covered everything with the abundance of its water, (K, TA,) and the voyager upon it found no way of escape from it. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) It (snow) was continual, and covered [the land]. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) It (abundance of herbage) was universal over the land, (K, TA,) leaving no part thereof wanting. (TA.) And أَرْتَجَتِ السَّنَةُ (assumed tropical:) The year of drought involved every part in sterility, (K, TA,) so that man found no way of escape. (TA.)