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صَرِيعٌ

Root: صرع

Full Definition

صَرِيعٌ i. q. مَصْرُوعٌ [meaning Thrown down, or prostrated, on the ground]: pl. صَرْعَى.
2 [And i. q. مَصْرُوعٌ meaning Affected with the disease termed صَرْعٌ, q. v.]
3 And [i. q. مَصْرُوعٌ meaning] Affected with diabolical possession, or madness.
4 One says also, بَاتَ صَرِيعَ الكَأْسِ [He passed the night prostrated by the influence of the wine-cup].
5 And رَأَيْتُ شَجَرَهُمْ صَرْعَى and I saw their trees cut down [and laid prostrate]. And نَبَاتٌ صَرِيعٌ A plant, or plants, or herbage, growing upon the surface of the earth, not erect. And غُصْنٌ صَرِيعٌ A branch falling down to the ground: or a branch broken down and fallen to the ground: and [in like manner] one says غُصْنٌ مَصْرُوعٌ ; and مَصَارِعُ is said to occur in a verse of Lebeed as pl. of the latter word, the reg. pl. of which is مَصَارِيعُ: but in that verse some read [which has a similar meaning.
6 صَرِيعٌ also signifies Slain: from the same word as applied to a branch and expl. above: pl. صَرْعَى.
7 And A twig, or rod, drooping, or hanging down, to the ground, falling upon it, but with its base upon the tree, so that it remains falling in the shade, the sun not reaching it, and therefore becomes more soft, or supple, than the branch [from which it depends], and more sweet in odour; and it is used for rubbing and cleaning the teeth [i. e. مَسَاوِيك are made of it]: pl. صُرُعٌ: (K, TA: [the pl. is thus in the L; but in some copies of the K صُرْعٌ:]) or, accord. to the T, the sing. signifies a twig, or rod, that falls from the tree called بَشَام [q. v.]; and the pl. is صُرْعَانٌ: the former pl. occurs in a trad., in which it is said that the Prophet was pleased to rub and clean his teeth with صُرُع.
8 Also A bow from which nothing has been pared off: or of which the wood has dried upon the tree; or this [latter] is only called صَرِيفٌ.
9 And A whip, in like manner, from which nothing has been pared off.

def.2 See also صُرَعَةٌ.


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