حَشَرَةٌ
Root: حشر
Full Definition
حَشَرَةٌ
and حَشَرَاتٌ, each being a coll. n. without a sing.; or the former is sing. of the latter; Any small animals that creep or walk upon the earth; as jerboas and hedgehogs and lizards of the kind called
ضَبّ
and the like: or the former, or latter, is applied to rats or mice, and jerboas, and lizards of the kind above mentioned, colleted together: or any venomous or noxious reptiles or the like, such as scorpions and serpents; syn. هَوَامُّ; as also أَحْرَاشٌ and أَحْنَاشٌ.
2 Also the former, Whatever is captured, snared, entrapped, hunted, or chased, of wild animals or the like, birds, and fish, &c.; whether small or great: or the great thereof: or what is eaten thereof: thus in all the copies of the K; but the pronoun [in the latter case] does not refer to the animals &c. above mentioned: it is expressly said in the T and M that the word signifies whatever is eaten of herbs, or leguminous plants, of the earth, such as the دُعَاع and فَثّ.
2 Also the former, Whatever is captured, snared, entrapped, hunted, or chased, of wild animals or the like, birds, and fish, &c.; whether small or great: or the great thereof: or what is eaten thereof: thus in all the copies of the K; but the pronoun [in the latter case] does not refer to the animals &c. above mentioned: it is expressly said in the T and M that the word signifies whatever is eaten of herbs, or leguminous plants, of the earth, such as the دُعَاع and فَثّ.
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