رَهْط

rahoTN * (Lth, S, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ rahaTN , (Lth, Msb, K,) but the former is the more chaste, (Lth, Msb,) A man's people, and tribe, (S, Msb, K,) consisting of his nearer relations: (Msb:) [i. e. his near kinsfolk: ] and a number of men less than ten, among whom is no woman; (AZ, S, Msb, K;) as also nafarN : (AZ, Msb:) or from seven to ten; (IDrd, Msb, K;) and sometimes a little more; (IDrd;) less than seven, to three, being called nafarN : (Msb:) or from three to ten: (K:) or i. q. Ea$iyrapN : (ISk, Msb:) or more than ten, to forty: (As, IF, Msb:) a pl., (S, Msb,) or a word having a pl. meaning, (Th, Az, Msb,) without any proper sing.; (Th, Az, S, Msb, K;) like nafarN and qawomN and maEo$arN and Ea$iyrapN ; all applied to men, exclusive of women: (Th, Msb:) and ↓ A^urohuwTN signifies the same: (ISh, TA:) the pl. of rhT is A^arohuTN (Lth, S, K) and A^arohiTapN (Lth) and A^arohaATN , (S, K,) [all pls. of pauc.,] the last of these being pl. either of rahaTN or of rahoTN , (TA,) and A^araAhiTu , (S, ISd, K,) as though pl. of A^arohuTN , (S, ISd,) though Sb makes it pl. of rahoTN , because of the rareness of the pl. pl., (ISd,) and A^araAhiyTu [which is app. pl. of A^arohaATN ]. (S, K.) You say, humo rahoTuhu dinoyapF They are his people, and his tribe, closely related. (S, TA.) And it is said in the Kur [xxvii. 49], wakaAna qiY Almadiynapi tisoEapu rahoTK , (S,) but this means, [ And there were in the city ] nine persons, (Bd,) or nine men. (Jel.) ― -b2- You also say rahoTN mino Eu$arK [ A collection of plants of the kind called E$r ]. (IAar, Sh, TA in art. Ayk .) -A2- An enemy; syn. Eaduw~N ; (K, TA; [in the CK Eadow ;]) mentioned by Sgh, on the authority of Ibn- 'Abbád. (TA.) -A3- A skin, (K,) or a waistwrapper ( A_izaAr ) made of leather, (Jm,) the sides of which are slit in several places in their lower parts, so that one may walk in it; (Jm, K;) or made of skin, and also of wool; (Aboo-Tálib the Grammarian;) or a skin of Et-Táïf, slit in several places; (M, TA;) or a skin of a size equal to the space between the navel and the knee; (S;) or a skin slit into a number of thongs or strips; (ISh, S, K;) or a skin cut into a number of thongs or strips, these being one above another; (AHeyth;) or a waist-wrapper ( miy^ozar ) made of skin, or leather, slit in several places, except in the place of the pudendum; (TA;) or a skin slit into strips, each strip being of the breadth of four fingers; (IAar;) worn by children, (M, K,) or by a young girl before she has arrived at puberty, (IAar,) and by a woman in menstruis: (IAar, S, M, K, &c.:) [in Nubia, the rahoT , still called by that name, is very neatly made, consisting of a great number of slender thongs: it is worn there by young girls, and is generally their only covering, completely surrounding and concealing the pelvic portion of the body, and the whole or part of the thighs:] in the Time of Ignorance, the men used to perform their circuitings [around the Kaabeh] naked, and the women wearing [only] the rhT : (S:) [see also HawofN , in two places:] the pl. is A^arohaATN [a pl. of pauc.] (S, TA) and rihaATN : (ISh, S, K:) or this last is a sing. also, (K,) signifying a piece of leather of a size equal to the space between the place of the waist-band and the knee, slit in several places like the [ thongs called ] $uruk [ of the sandal, pl. of $iraAk ]; worn by a girl of seven years: or a garment worn by the boys of the Arabs of the desert, consisting of overlapping folds or plies, one above another, like fans: (TA:) pl. A^arohiTapN [a pl. of pauc.]. (K.)