عرى

عَرَاآءٌ ذ [is app. a subst. signifying Nakedness, or bareness, or the like: for عَرَاآءُ العِظَامِ مِنَ اللَّحْمِ occurs in the TA, in art. عجف, evidently as meaning Leanness of the bones. -A2- Also] A wide, or spacious, place or tract of land, (S, M, Msb, K,) in which is nothing that hides, or conceals, (S, Msb,) or in which nothing will be hidden, (M, TA,) or in which one will not be hidden by anything; (K;) occurring in the Kur xxxvii. 145 [and lxviii. 49]: (S:) or the vacant surface of the earth or land, or of a wide space of land: (TA in this art.:) or a tract such as is termed جَهْرَاآءُ [q. v.]: (TA in art. جهر:) pl. أَعْرَاآءٌ. (K.) [In the TA in art. جهر the pl. is said to be أَعْرِيَةٌ. See also عَرَى.]