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ضرس

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 ضَرَسَهُ ذ , (A, TA,) aor. ضَرِسَ , (TA,) inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (S, A, K,) He bit it: (TA:) or he bit it vehemently with the أَضْرَاس [pl. of ضِرْسٌ, q. v.]; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ ضرّسهُ: (A:) or with the ضَرْس. (T, TA.) ― -b2- He (a beast of prey) chewed his flesh, (i. e., the flesh of his prey,) without swallowing it; (A;) as also ↓ ضرّسهُ. (A, TA.) ― -b3- He bit it (namely an arrow) to try it; to know if it were hard or weak: (S:) he marked it (namely an arrow) by biting it with his أَضْرَاس, (M, A,) or with his teeth. (Az, TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) He tried him with respect to his claims to knowledge or courage. (IAar.) ― -b5- ضَرَسَتْهُ الخُطُوبُ, inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (tropical:) Things or affairs, or calamities, tried, or tested, him; as also ↓ ضرّستهُ. (TA.) ― -b6- ضَرَسَتْهُ الحُرُوبُ, inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (tropical:) Wars tried, or proved, him, and rendered him expert, or strong; (TA;) as also ↓ ضرّستهُ, (S, A, K,) inf. n. تَضْرِيسٌ. (S, K.) ― -b7- ضَرَسَهُمُ الزَّمَانُ, (S, A, K,) inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (K,) (tropical:) Fortune became severe, rigorous, afflictive, or adverse, to them; (S, A, K; *) as also ↓ ضرّسهم. (A, TA.) ― -b8- ضَرَسَ نَابُهَا (tropical:) She was evil in disposition: (TA:) and ضَرْسٌ [alone] the being evil in disposition. (IAar.) ― -b9- ضَرْسٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The biting of blame, or reprehension. (IAar.) ― -b10- And (tropical:) The keeping silence during a day, until the night: (O, K, TA:) as though biting one's tongue. (TA.) ― -b11- And ضَرَسَ البِئْرَ, aor. ضَرِسَ (O, K, TA) and ضَرُسَ , (TA,) inf. n. ضَرْسٌ, (O, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He cased the well with stones: (O, K, TA:) or, as some say, he closed up the interstices of its casing with stones: and in like manner one says of any building. (TA.) -A2- ضَرِسَتْ أَسْنَانُهُ, (S, K,) aor. ضَرَسَ , (K,) inf. n. ضَرَسٌ, (S,) His teeth were set on edge (كَلَّتْ) by eating or drinking what was acid, or sour. (S, A, * K.) And ضَرِسَ الرَّجُلُ The man's teeth were set on edge. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, that a certain bastard, of the Children of Israel, offered an offering, and it was rejected; whereupon he said, يَا رَبِّ يَأْكُلُ أَبَوَاىَ الحَمْضَ وَأَضْرَسُ أَنَا أَنْتَ أَكْرَمُ مِنْ ذٰلِكَ [ O my Lord, my two parents eat sour herbage, and are my teeth set on edge? Thou art more gracious than to suffer that ]: and his offering was accepted. (O in art. حمض.) [See Jer., xxxi. 29; and Ezek., xviii. 2.] ― -b2- Also ضَرِسَ, inf. n. ضَرَسٌ, (tropical:) He was angry by reason of hunger: because hunger sharpens the أَضْرَاس. (TA.) ― -b3- And ضَرِسُوا بِالحَرْبِ (assumed tropical:) They persisted in war until they fought one another. (T, O, TA.)

Derived headwords

ضَرَسَهُverb
  1. 1.
ضَرَسَتْهُ الخُطُوبُ
ضَرَسَتْهُ الحُرُوبُ
ضَرَسَ نَابُهَا
ضَرَسَ البِئْرَ
ضَرِسَتْ أَسْنَانُهُ
ضَرِسَ الرَّجُلُ
يَا رَبِّ يَأْكُلُ
أَبَوَاىَ الحَمْضَ وَأَضْرَسُ أَنَا أَنْتَ أَكْرَمُ مِنْ ذٰلِكَ
ضَرِسُوا بِالحَرْبِ