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ذرو ند ذرى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

ذِرْوَةٌ ذ and ↓ ذُرْوَةٌ The upper, or uppermost, part of a thing (S, M, Msb, K) of any kind; (M, Msb;) and so, accord. to Et-Takee Esh-Shemenee, ↓ ذَرْوَةٌ: (TA:) and particularly, of a camel's hump, (S, M,) and of the head: (M:) and a camel's hump itself: (TA:) pl. ذُرًى. (S, TA.) It is said in a trad., أَتَى بِاـِبِلٍ غُرَرِ الذُّرَى [or غُرِّ الذُّرَى?] He brought camels having white humps. (TA.) And in another trad., عَلَى ذِرْوَةِ كُلِّ بَعِيرِ شَيْطَانُ [ On the hump of every camel is a devil ]. (TA.) And in a prov., مَا زَالَ يَفْتِلُ فِى الذِّرْوَةِ وَالغَارِبِ [ He ceased not to twist the fur of the upper part and the fore part of the hump: originating from, or occurring in, a trad., which see explained in art. غرب]: it means, (tropical:) he ceased not to render familiar, or tame, [or rather to endeavour to do so, ] and to remove refractoriness. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] تَزَوَّجَ مِنْهُمْ فِى الذِّرْوَةِ وَ النَّاصِيَةِ (T, M *) (assumed tropical:) He married among the noble and high of them. (T.)

Derived headwords

ذِرْوَةٌ
  1. 1.
أَتَى بِاـِبِلٍ غُرَرِ الذُّرَى
عَلَى ذِرْوَةِ كُلِّ بَعِيرِ
مَا زَالَ يَفْتِلُ فِى الذِّرْوَةِ
تَزَوَّجَ مِنْهُمْ فِى الذِّرْوَةِ وَ النَّاصِيَةِ