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ضرو ند ضرى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

ضَرَاآءٌ ذ A level tract of land in which are beasts of prey and a few trees: (M, K:) or a piece of land, or ground, that conceals one: (AA, TA:) and trees, &c., that conceal one: (M:) or a thicket; or tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees; in a valley. (S, K.) One says, تَوَارَى الصَّيْدُ مِنِّى فِى ضَرَاآءِ الوَادِى [ The game hid itself from me in the tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees of the valley ]. (S.) And فُلَانٌ يَمْشِى الضَّرَاآءَ, with fet-h, meaning Such a one goes along lurking among the trees that conceal him. (S.) And هُوَ يَدِبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَاآءَ وَيَمْشِى لَهُ الخَمَرَ [ He creeps to him in the thicket, and walks, or goes along, to him in the covert of trees ]: said of a man when he deludes, or circumvents, his companion: (S:) but accord. to IAar, ضراآء here means a low, or depressed, place. (Meyd.) And فُلَانٌ لَا يُدَبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَاآءُ [app. meaning The thicket will not be crept through to such a one: but mentioned after the last of the explanations here following]. (M.) [See also ضَرَّاآءُ, in art. ضر.] ― -b2- [It is said that] it signifies also The hiding or concealing, oneself: (AA, K, TA:) [or] the walking, or going along, in that which conceals one from him whom one beguiles, or circumvents. (M.)

Derived headwords

ضَرَاآءٌ
  1. 1.
الصَّيْدُ مِنِّى فِى ضَرَاآءِ الوَادِى
يَمْشِى الضَّرَاآءَ
هُوَ يَدِبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَاآءَ وَيَمْشِى لَهُ الخَمَرَ
فُلَانٌ لَا يُدَبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَاآءُ