Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

المَعْرَى

Root: عرى

Full Definition

المَعْرَى ; and its pl., المَعَارِى: see العُرْيَة.
2 [The pl.] مَعَارٍ [with the article المَعَارِى] signifies also Places that do not give growth to plants, or herbage.
3 And Beds, or the like; syn. فُرُشٌ, pl. of فِرَاشٌ. And in this sense, مَعَارِى occurs for مَعَارٍ, by poetic license.


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