حرث

حَرْثٌ حرث Gain, acquisition, or earning; (Jel in xlii. 19;) as also ↓ حَرِيثَةٌ; of which the pl. is حَرَائِثُ: (K:) and recompense, or reward. (Bd and Jel in xlii. 19, and TA. [Accord. to Bd, in the place here referred to, this is from the same word as meaning “ seed-produce: but the reverse seems to be the case accord. to the generality of the lexicologists.]) مَنْ كَانَ يُرِيدُ حَرْثَ الاآخِرَةِ, in the Kur xlii. 19, means (assumed tropical:) Whoso desireth the reward, or recompense, (Bd,) or the gain, i. e. reward, or recompense, (Jel,) [ of the world to come. ] ― -b2- A lot, share, or portion. (TA.) ― -b3- Worldly goods. (TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) Seed-produce: (S, * K, * TA:) (tropical:) what is grown, or raised, by means of seed, and by means of date-stones, and by means of planting: (Mgh:) an inf. n. used as a proper subst.: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. حُرُوثٌ. (Msb.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A place ploughed for sowing; (Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ مَحْرَثٌ, (Msb,) pl. مَحَارِثُ: (Mgh, Msb:) or land prepared for sowing: (Jel in ii. 66:) and it is said to signify also a plain, or soft, place; perhaps because one ploughs in it. (Ham p. 70.) [Being originally an inf. n., it is also used in a pl. sense.] It is said in the Kur ii. 223, نِسَاآؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ (Mgh, Msb) (tropical:) Your wives, or women, are unto you things wherein ye sow your offspring: (Bd, Jel:) they are thus likened to places that are ploughed for sowing. (Mgh, Msb.) ― -b6- [And hence,] (tropical:) A wife; as in the saying, كَيْفَ حَرْثُكَ (tropical:) [ How is thy wife? ]. (A, TA.) ― -b7- A road, or beaten track, or the middle of a road, that is much trodden [ as though ploughed ] by the hoofs of horses or the like. (K, * TA.) ― -b8- [ A ploughshare: so in Richardson's Pers. Ar. and Engl. Dict., ed. by Johnson; and so, app., in the Munjid of Kr, voce عُقَابٌ.]