ذرع

أَذْرَعُ ذ [ More, and most, light, or active, and quick, with the arms, or hands, or (assumed tropical:) otherwise ]. It is said in a trad., خَيْرُ كُنَّ أَذْرَعُكُنَّ لِلْغَزْلِ The best of you females is the most light, or active, of hand, of you, in spinning: or, the most able of you to spin. (TA.) And قَتَلُوهُمْ أَذْرَعَ قَتْلٍ (assumed tropical:) They slew them with the quickest slaughter. (S.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) More, and most, chaste in speech. (K.) You say, هُوَ أَذْرَعُ مِنْهُ (assumed tropical:) He is more chaste of speech than he. (TA.) -A2- (assumed tropical:) One whose mother is Arabian but not his father; syn. مُقْرِفٌ: or the son of an Arabian man by an emancipated slavewoman: (K:) the former is the more correct. (TA.) [See also مُذَرَّعٌ.]