ضَارِبٌ

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ضَارِبٌ [Beating, striking, smiting, or hitting: &c.:] act. part. n. of ضَرَبَ [in all its senses].
2 A she-camel that strikes her milker: . or one which, having been submissive, or tractable, before conceiving, afterwards strikes her milker away from before her: or [the pl.] ضَوَارِبُ signifies she-camels that resist after conceiving, and become repugnant, so that one cannot milk them.
3 Also, and ضَارِبَةٌ, the former a possessive epithet [i. e. denoting the possession of a quality], and the latter a verbal epithet [i. e. an act. part. n.], A she-camel that raises her tail, and smites with it her vulva, and then goes: pl. ضَوَارِبُ. And the former is like تضراب, [i. e. تِضْرَابٌ , as appears from what follows,] expl. by Lh as meaning A she-camel that has been covered by the stallion, [and app. that raises her tail in consequence thereof,] but respecting which one knows not whether she be pregnant or not: or تِضْرَابٌ signifies a she-camel recently covered by the stallion [and therefore often raising her tail]. (Mz, 40th نوع.)
4 The former (ضَارِبٌ) signifies also Swimming, in water. Dhu-r-Rummeh says, لَيَالِىَ اللَّهْوِ يَطْبِينِى فَأَتْبَعُهُ كَأَنَّنِى ضَارِبٌ فِى غَمْرَةٍ لَعِبُ [In the nights of diversion he calls me and I follow him as though I were swimming in a deep water, sporting therein].
5 طَيْرٌ ضَوَارِبُ Birds seeking sustenance: or birds traversing the land, [or migrating,] in search of sustenance.
6 See also ضَرِيبٌ.
7 ضَارِبٌ also signifies A dark night: or a night of which the darkness extends to the right and left, and fills the world. See the verse of Homeyd cited in the first paragraph. [J cites as an ex. of the last of the meanings expl. above, and so does Sgh in the O, the verse in the sentence here next following.]
8 Anything long: applied in this sense to a night: thus in the following verse: وَرَابَعَتْنِى تَحْتَ لَيْلٍ ضَارِبِ بِسَاعِدٍ فَعْمٍ وَكَفٍّ خَاضِبِ [And that she helped me in lifting and putting on the loads, beneath the darkness of a long night, with a plump fore arm and a hand dyed with hinnà].
9 A place, or a depressed place, and a valley, in which are trees. And A piece of rugged ground extending in an oblong form in a plain, or soft, tract. And The like of a رَحْبَة in a valley [app. meaning where the water flows into it from its two sides: see art. رحب]: pl. ضَوَارِبُ.

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