Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ثَرٍ

Root: ثرى

Full Definition

ثَرٍ[ , fem. ثَرِيَةٌ, Moist; humid.] You say أَرْضٌ ثَرِيَةٌ, like عَمِيَةٌ, or , like غَنِيَّةٌ, (K, [but this is anomalous, as part. n. of ثَرِيَت,]) and ثَرْيَآءُ , Earth, or land, that has become moist and soft, after drought and dryness: or watered by rain that has penetrated to its moistness: or the last, land of just, or moderate, moisture: or moist land; and so the first. And مَكَانٌ ثَرْيَانُ A place of which the earth has in it moisture. And يَوْمٌ ثَرِىٌّ A humid day.

def.2 See also art. ثرو.


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