استعرض
Root: عرض
Form: 10
Full Definition
2 استعرضت النَّاقَةُ بِاللَّحْمِ is like the phrase قُذِفَتْ بِاللَّحْمِ, meaning The she-camel became fat and plump.
def.2 استعرضهُ He asked him to show, or exhibit, to him what he had.
2 استعرض الجَارِيَةَ He asked to show, or display, to him the girl on the occasion of sale.
def.3 استعرضها He came to her from the direction of her side.
2 [Hence, استعرضهُ also signifies, and so , He betook himself to him or it, or he took him or it, or he acted with respect to him or it, without any direct aim, at random, or indiscriminately: and hence the phrase here following.] استعرض النَّاسُ الخَوَارِجَ and The people went forth against the Khárijees not caring whom they slew. And لَا بَأْسَ بِأَنْ مَنْ لَقُوا فَيَقْتُلُوا [There will be no harm to them] in their taking without distinguishing who and whence he is him whom they find, and slaying. And يَسْتَعْرِضُ الخَارِجِىُّ النَّاسَ The Khárijee slays men in any possible manner, and destroys whomsoever he can, without inquiring respecting the condition of any one, Muslim or other, and without caring whom he slays. And وَٱشْتَرِهِ مِمَّنْ وَجَدْتَهُ وَلَا تَسْأَلْ عَمَّنْ عَمِلَهُ [Take thou it at random, or indiscriminately, and buy it of him whom thou findest, and ask not respecting him who made it]. And اِسْتَعْرَضَ يُعْطِى مَنْ أَقْبَلَ وَمَنْ أَدْبَرَ [He acted indiscriminately, giving to him who advanced and to him who retired]. And اِسْتَعْرِضِ العَرَبَ Ask thou whom thou wilt of the Arabs respecting such and such things. You say also, of land (أَرْض) in which is herbage, يَسْتَعْرِضُهَا المَالُ and [The camels, or the like,] depasture it [app. at random] when traversing it.
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