راس rās H s. f. 1. Reins of a bridle. 2. See اگاهي ugāhī. 3. Adoption. راس بٿهانا يا لينا rās-biṭhānā or -lenā, v. a. To adopt a son. راس آنا rās-ānā (perhaps, for راست آنا rāst ānā, see under راست) To be agreeable.

رکيبي rikebī P. (prop. رکابي) s. f. A dish, a plate.

رفتني raftan-ī P adj. Fit to go, obliged to go, departing, transient.

رخش raḵẖsh P s. m. 1. A horse, a famous horse of Rustam. 2. Splendour, the rays or reflec- tion of light.

رفاقت rifāḳat A (prop. rafāḳat, from رفق Heb. To associate with) s. f. Companionship, society, friendship. رفاقت کرنا rifāḳat karnā, To accompany, to associate with.

راستا rāstā P s. m. A road, way. راستاکترانا rāstā katrānā, To slink away: see کترانا katrānā, sign. 2.

رسواٴي ruswā-ī P s. f. Ignominy, infamy, dis- honour, disgrace, disrepute, &c.

ر re called راي مـﮩمله and راي غيرمنقوطه is the tenth letter in the Arabic and twelfth in the Per- sian alphabet, corresponding to र in Sanskrit. Its pronunciation is that of the English r when fully sounded. In denoting numbers by the letters of the Arabic alphabet, it stands for 200. It is interchangeable with ل and د; as, يدسل for يرسل he will send; دجره for دجله the river Tigris; اروند for الوند the name of a mountain. Sometimes ي is used for it; as, قيراط for قرّاط the name of a weight. In Hindī, besides ल it is also interchanged with ड. In almanacks, it is the astronomical character for the moon: and, in dates, it denotes the month ربيع الاوّل.

رکهانا rakhānā S̱. (caus. of رکهنا rakhnā, q. v.) v. a. To give in charge, to cause to keep, put, place. رکها لينا rakhā lenā, To take in charge.

ريوڙي rewṛī H s. f. A kind of sweetmeat. ريوڙي کي پهيرمين پڙنا rewṛī ke pher meṅ paṛnā, v. n. To be involved in difficulties. (This alludes to a game founded on the principle of geometrical progression, wherein one party bets that he will eat one of these sweet cakes so many times doubled, and is confounded at finding it amount to a quantity far beyond his expectation).