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كرض

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the expulsion of fluid from a female animal's womb, specifically after mating. It also extends to the concept of the womb's internal structure.

Derived headwords

الكِرَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    fluid expelled from wombclassical

    The fluid that a female camel expels from her womb after the male has mounted her.

  2. 2.
    womb liningclassical

    The lining or walls of the womb.

كرضتverb
  1. 1.
    expelled fluidclassical

    A female camel expelled fluid from her womb.

تكرضverb
  1. 1.
    expels fluidclassical

    A female camel expels fluid from her womb (present/imperfect tense).

كَرْضًاnoun
  1. 1.
    expulsion of fluidclassical

    The act of expelling fluid from the womb.

كُرِضَةnoun
  1. 1.
    part of the wombclassical

    A part of the womb, specifically one of its linings or walls.

Parallel reading

الكراض: ماء الفحل تلفظه الناقة من رحمها بعد ما قبلته.
Al-kirāḍ: The fluid of the stallion that the she-camel expels from her womb after he has mounted her.
وقد كرضت الناقة تكرض كرضا، إذا لفظته.
And the she-camel has expelled (karadat) it, she expels (takriḍu) it, an expulsion (karḍan), if she expelled it.
وقال الأصمعي: الكراض حلق الرحم، لا واحد لها من لفظها.
And Al-Aṣmaʿī said: Al-kirāḍ are the linings of the womb; it has no singular form derived from its own word.
سوف تدنيك من لميس سبنتة * أمارت بالبول ماء الكراض
Soon Lamīs will bring you close, a young she-camel whose urine has signaled the fluid of the womb.
أضمرته عشرين يوما ونيلت * حين نيلت يعارة في عراض:
She carried it (concealed) for twenty days and was mounted * when she was mounted, a borrowed service, in the midst.
وقال أبو عبيدة: واحدتها كرضة، بالضم
And Abū ʿUbaydah said: Its singular is kurḍah, with dammah.