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ضَرَبَهُ

Root: ضرب

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ضَرَبَهُI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun ضَرْبٌ, [He beat, struck, smote, or hit, him, or it;] and ضرّبهُ [signifies the same in an intensive sense, i. e. he beat, &c., him, or it, much, or violently; or in a frequentative sense, i. e. several, or many, times: or rather ضرّب is used in relation to several, or many, objects, as will be shown in what follows]: accord. to Er-Rághib, الضَّرْبُ signifies the making a thing to fall upon another thing; and, as some say, the making it to fall with violence, or vehemence. You say, ضَرَبَهُ بِهِ [He struck him, or it, with it], i. e. with a sword, , &c. And تَضْرِبُ فِى حَدِيدٍ بَارِدٍ [Thou beatest upon cold iron]: a prov. [expl. in art. حد]. And ضَرَبْتُ زَيْدًا سَوْطًا, meaning بِسَوْطٍ [i. e. I struck Zeyd with a whip], or ضَرْبَةَ سَوْطٍ [a stroke of a whip]: (M in art. سوط, q. v.:) and ضَرَبَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ [He struck him a hundred strokes of the whip]. (S and K in art. سحل, &c.) And ضَرَبْتُ عُنُقَهُ [I smote his neck, meaning I beheaded him]; and الأَعْنَاقَ [I smote the necks, meaning I struck off the heads]; the teshdeed denoting muchness [of the action] or multiplicity [of the objects]: AZ says that, when the object is one, the Arabs use only the former verb, without teshdeed; but when there is a plurality of objects, either of the verbs; [so that] one says, ضَرَبُوا أَعْنَاقَهُمْ [They smote their necks, or beheaded them], and أَمَرَ الرِّقَابِ [He gave the order to smite the necks, or to strike off the heads]: فَضَرْبَ الرِّقَابِ in the Kur xlvii. 4 is originally فَٱضْرِبُوا الرِّقَابَ ضَرْبًا [meaning Then do ye smite the necks, i. e. strike off the heads]; the Verbal.Noun being here put for its verb. [Respecting the phrase هُوَ ٱلْيَضْرِبُكَ, see 1 in art. جدع.]
2 [Hence a variety of meanings and phrases here following.]
3 ضَرَبَ كَلْبَهُ عَلَى الصَّيْدِ [He beat, or disciplined, or trained, his dog for the purpose of the chase]: whence the phrases ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ جِرْوَتَهُ and ضَرَبَ جِرْوَةَ نَفْسِهِ and ضَرَبْتُ جِرْوَتِى عَنْهُ [expl. voce جِرْوَةٌ]. (Z, and TA in art. جرو.)
4 لَا تُضْرَبُ أَكْبَادُ الإِبِلِ إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةِ مَسَاجِدَ Camels shall not be ridden, save to three mosques: [namely, that of Mekkeh, that of El-Medeeneh, and that of El-Aksà at Jerusalem:] a trad. (TA. [See also 4 in art. عمل.])
5 [ضَرَبَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, lit. He smote with him, or it, the ground; meaning he cast, threw, or flung, him, or it, upon the ground. And ضَرَبَ بِسَلْحِهِ الأَرْضَ He cast forth his excrement, or ordure, upon the ground.] And [hence] ضَرَبَ الأَرْضَ and الغَائِطَ He voided excrement, or ordure; and so الخَلَآءَ. [ضَرَبَ بِنَفْسِهِ الأَرْضَ see expl. in the latter half of this paragraph.]
6 ضَرَبْتُ القَوْسَ بِالمِضْرَبِ I struck the string of the bow with the wooden implement [or mallet] used in separating cotton.
7 ضَرَبَ العُودَ [He struck the chords of the lute; meaning he played upon the lute; and so ضَرَبَ بِالعُودِ].
8 ضَرَبَ الوَتِدَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He beat [or knocked or struck] the tent-peg, or stake, so that it became firm in the ground. And [hence] ضَرَبَ الخَيْمَةَ He pitched the tent, by knocking in its pegs with a mallet: or he set up the tent.
9 ضَرَبَ الدِّرْهَمَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He struck, coined, or minted, the dirhem, or piece of money. And ضَرَبَ عَلَى ٱسمِهِ [He struck, coined, or minted, money in his name]. (ISd, TA in art. جوز.)
10 ضَرَبَ عَلَى المَكْتُوبِ He sealed, or stamped, the writing. [And ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ He erased it; namely, anything written.]
11 ضَرَبَ الطِّينَ عَلَى الجِدَارِ [He stuck, or applied, the mud upon the wall, as a plaster].
12 Hence, accord. to some, the phrase ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلذِّلَّةُ, in the Kur ii. 58, considered as meaning Vileness was made to cleave to them: or the meaning is, encompassed them, like as the tent encompasses him over whom it is pitched. And [in like manner] one says, ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ضَرِيبَةٌ An impost, of the tax called جِزْيَة, &c., was imposed upon them. And ضَرَبَ عَلَى العَبْدِ الأِتَاوَةَ He imposed upon the slave the tax according to a fixed time. (TA. [See ضِريبَةٌ.]) And ضُربَ عَلَيْهِمُ البَعْثُ The being sent to the war was appointed them and imposed upon them as an obligation. (Mgh in art. بعث.)
13 ضَرَبَ الشَّبَكَةَ عَلَى الطَّائِرِ He cast the net over the bird: and ضُرِبَ الفَخُّ عَلَى الطَّائِرِ [The snare was cast over the bird].
14 ضَرَبَ اللَّيْلُ بِأَرُوَاقِهِ [The night cast its folds of darkness;] meaning the night came. [And The night became dark, or was dark; as appears from the following verse.] Homeyd says, سَرَى مِثْلَ نَبْضِ العِرْقِ وَاللَّيْلُ ضَارِبٌ بِأرْوَاقِهِ وَالصُّبْحُ قَدْ كَادَ يَسْطَعُ [He went on in his night-journey, like the pulsing of the vein, while the night was casting its folds of darkness over the earth, and the dawn had almost risen]. (TA. [See also ضَارِبٌ.]) You say also, ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ حِجَابًا [He put, or let down, a veil, or curtain, or covering, over him, or it]. And ضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمَا سَدٌّ [A barrier was set between them two]. (A in art. سد.) ضَرَبْنَا عَلَى آذَانِهِمْ [in the Kur xviii. 10] means We prevented their sleeping; as though by putting a covering over their ears; a metonymical [and elliptical] mode of saying we made them to sleep by preventing any sound from penetrating into their ears, in consequence of which they would have awoke: or ضَرَبَ عَلَى آذَانِهِمْ means he poured upon them sleep so that they slept and did not awake: and one says also, ضَرَبْتُ النَّوْمَ عَلَى أُذُنِهِ [meaning I poured sleep upon him by closing his ear].
15 ضَرَبَتِ, العَقْرَبُ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, The scorpion stung.
16 [ضَرَبَتْهُ الرِّيحُ The wind beat it, or blew upon it; namely, herbage, and water, &c.] And ضَرَبَهُ البَرْدُ The cold smote it so as to injure it; namely, herbage; and in like manner one says of the wind: and البَرْدُ The cold smote it by its vehemence, so that it dried up; and in like manner one says of the wind: and الضَّرِيبُ الأَرْضَ The hoar-frost, or rime, fell upon the land, so that its herbage became nipped, or blasted. (AZ, TA. [See also ضَرِبَ.]) And ضُرِبَ بِبَلِيَّةٍ He was smitten with a trial, or an affliction.
17 طَرِيقُ مَكَّةَ مَا ضَرَبَهَا العَامَ قَطْرَةٌ [The road to Mekkeh, not a drop of rain has fallen upon it this year].
18 ضَرَبَ الفَحْلُ النَّاقَةَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun ضِرَابٌ and ضَرْبٌ also, accord. to Fr, but this latter, though agreeable with analogy, is disallowed by Sb and Akh, The stallion leaped the she-camel; i. e. compressed her. ضِرَابُ الجَمَلِ is used elliptically for ثَمَنُ ضِرَابِ الجَمَلِ The hire of the camel's leaping the female: the taking of which, as also the taking of the hire of any stallion for covering, is forbidden in a trad.
19 ضَرَبَ الشَّىْءَ بِالشَّىْءِ He mixed the [one] thing with the [other] thing; as also ضرّبهُ , Verbal.Noun تَضْرِيبٌ: accord. to some, said peculiarly in relation to milk; but [SM says,] this I have not found in any lexicon. ضَرَبَ اللَّبَنَ فِى السِّقَآءِ means حَقَنَهُ [i. e. He collected the milk in the skin, and poured fresh milk upon that which was curdled, or thick, or upon that which was churned; or he poured the milk into the skin, and kept it therein that its butter might come forth]. In the L and other lexicons it is said that ضَرَبْتُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِى الشَّرِّ means I caused them to become confused [or I involved them] in evil or mischief. (TA. [And ضرّبت بَيْنَهُمْ has a similar meaning: see 2.]) And ضُربَتِ الشَّاةُ بِلَوْنِ كَذَا means The sheep, or goat, was intermixed with such a colour.
20 ضَرَبَ الشَّجَرُ بِعُرُوقِهِ فِى الأَرْضِ [The trees struck their roots into the earth]. (A and TA in art. عرق.)
21 [Hence, the saying,] ضَرَبَتْ فِيهِ فُلَانَةُ بِعِرْقٍ ذِى أَشَبٍ i. e. اِلْتِبَاس; (S and TA in the present art., and in like manner, in both, in art. اشب, with the addition of ذِى before اِلْتِبَاسٍ;) [app. meaning Such a woman implanted, or engendered, in him a strain, i. e. a radical, or hereditary, quality, of a dubious kind: or the pronoun in فيه relates to a family, or people; for it is said that] the meaning is, such a woman corrupted their race by her bringing forth among them: or, as some say, عرقت فِيهِمْ عِرْقَ سَوْءٍ [i. e. عَرَّقَتْ, or, accord. to more common usage, أَعْرَقَتْ, i. e., implanted, or engendered, among them, or in them, an evil strain, or radical or hereditary disposition].
22 ضَرَبَ بِالقِدَاحِ, and ضَرَبَ القِدَاحَ, He turned about, or shuffled, (أَجَالَ,) the arrows, [in the رِبَابَة , in the game called المُيْسِر,] عَلَى الجَزورِ [for the slaughtered camel]. (Mgh. [See حُرْضَةٌ.]) [And He played with the gamingarrows; practised sortilege with arrows, or with the arrows.] You say, ضَرَبْتُ مَعَ القَوْمِ بِسَهْمٍ I practised sortilege with the people, or party, with an arrow; syn. سَاهَمْتُهُمْ. And ضَرَبَ بِالقِدْحَيْنِ He practised sortilege with the two arrows; one of which was inscribed with the sentence “ My Lord hath commanded me, ” and the other with “ My Lord hath forbidden me: ” a person between hope and despair is likened to one practising this mode of sortilege, which was used by the people of the Time of Ignorance when they doubted whether they should undertake an affair or abstain from it. One says also, ضَرَبَ فِى الجَزُورِبِسَهْمٍ meaning He obtained a share, or portion, of the slaughtered camel. And hence the saying of El-Hareeree, وَضَرَبْتُ فِى مَرْعَاهَا بِنَصِيبٍ [And I obtained a share of its pasture]. And the lawyers say, يَضْرِبُ فِيهِ بِالثُّلُثِ i. e. He shall take thereof somewhat, according to what is due to him, of the third part. They say also, ضَرَبَ فِى مَالِهِ سَهْمًا i. e. He assigned [a share, or portion, of his property]: and thus is expl. the saying of Aboo-Haneefeh, لَا يَضْرِبُ لِلْمُوصَى لَهُ فِيمَا زَادَ عَلَى الثُّلُثِ He shall not assign, or give, to the legatee, aught of more than the third part; the true objective complement being suppressed.
23 ضَرَبَ بِيَدَيْهِ [lit. He beat with his arms; meaning he moved his arms about, or to and fro; brandished, tossed, or swung them]: you say, ضَرَبَ بِيَدَيْهِ وَحَرَّكَهُمَا فِى مِشْيَتِهِ [He swung his arms, and moved them about, in his manner of walking]. (TA in art. جدف. [See جَدَفَ.]) And ضَرَبَ فِى المَآءِ [بِيَدَيْهِ being understood after the verb] He swam.
24 ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى شَىْءٍ He made a sign, or pointed, with his hand, towards a thing. And ضَرَبَ [alone] He made a sign, or pointed. And ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى كَذَا He put forth his hand towards such a thing, to take it, or to point, or make a sign. And ضَرَبَ يَدَهُ إِلَى عَمَلِ كَذَا [He applied his hand to the doing of such a thing]. [And ضَرَبَ يَدَيْهِ فِى المَالِ a phrase expl. to me by IbrD as meaning He busied his hands with the property, in the giving, or dispensing of it.]
25 ضَرَبَ عَلَى يَدِهِ [He struck his hand; meaning] he struck, or made, the bargain with him; or ratified the sale with him: for it is a custom, when two persons are bargaining together, for one of them to put his hand upon the other's in ratifying the bargain.
26 And He prohibited, or prevented, or hindered, him, from doing a thing, or from doing a thing that he had begun: and [in like manner] ضَرَبَ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ he withheld, or restrained, him, or it. And He prohibited, or interdicted, him from the using, or disposing of, his property according to his own free will.
27 Also He corrupted, vitiated, marred, or disordered, his affair, or case, or state.
28 ضَرَبَ عَنْهُ He turned away a person or thing from him [or it]; as also : [or] عنه signifies, or signifies also, and so does ضَرَبَ عنه, [the latter app. for ضَرَبَ نَفْسَهُ عَنْهُ,] He turned away from, avoided, shunned, or left, him, or it; namely, a person, or a thing. أَفَنَضْرِبُ عَنْكُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَ صَفْحًا, in the Kur [xliii. 4], is said to mean Shall we then neglect you, and not teach you what is incumbent on you? the phrase being taken from a rider's striking his beast with his stick when he desires to turn him from the course that he is pursuing: or the meaning is, shall we then turn away the Kur-án from you, and not invite you thereby to the faith, turning away ourselves from you? One says also, ضَرَبْتُ عَنْهُ صَفْحًا meaning I turned away from him and left him. (S and TA in art. صفح: see 1 in that art.) See also the saying ضَرَبَ أَخْمَاسَهُ فِى أَسْدَاسِهِ voce خُمُسٌ.
29 And فُلَانٌ يَضْرِبُ أَخْمَاسًا لِأَسْدَاسٍ: see voce خِمْسٌ.
30 ضَرَبَ بِنَفْسِهِ الأَرْضَ, Verbal.Noun ضَرْبٌ, [lit. He smote with himself the ground; and hence, he cast, threw, or flung, himself upon the ground; app. often used in this sense; (a phrase similar to ضَرَبَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ expl. before;) and hence,] he remained, stayed, or abode; and so as used in the phrase اضرب الرَّجُلُ فِى البَيْتِ The man remained, stayed, or abode, in the tent, or house, not quitting it: and [in like manner] ضَرَبَ بذَنَبِهِ, [الأَرْضَ being understood,] He stayed, or abode, and remained fixed. (K in art. ذنب. [See also other explanations of this last phrase in a later part of this paragraph.]) And ضَرَبَ الوَتِدَ بِمَحَلِّ كَذَا He remained, stayed, or abode, [lit., struck the tent-peg,] in such a place of alighting. And ضَرَبَتِ الإِبِلُ بِعَطَنٍ, [الأَرْضَ being understood after الابل,] The camels lay down [in a place by the water]: (S in art. عطن:) or satisfied themselves with drinking and then lay down around the water or by the watering-troughs, to be brought again to drink another time: and [hence,] ضَرَبَ النَّاسُ بِعَطَنٍ, occurring in a trad., The people's camels satisfied themselves with drinking until they lay down and remained in their place [at the water]: or the people satisfied their thirst and then abode at the water. (K in art. عطن.)
31 ضَرَبَ بِذَقَنِهِ الأَرْضَ He was cowardly; and feared; and clave to the ground: or he was, or became, affected with shame, shyness, or bashfulness.
32 يَضْرِبُ لَهُ الأَرْضَ كُلَّهَا [lit. He beats for it the whole land, i. e. in journeying,] means he seeks it through the whole land: so says AZ in explanation of the phrase here following. يَضْرِبُ المَجْدَ He seeks to gain, or obtain, glory: or he applies himself with art and diligence to gain glory, (يَكْتَسِبُهُ,) and seeks it through the whole land.
34 ضَرَبَ اللَّبِنَ, or اللِّبْنَ, He made [or moulded] bricks. And ضَرَبَ الخَاتَمَ He made, fashioned, or moulded, the signet-ring. [Hence one says,] اِضْرِبْهُ عَلَى طَبْعِ هٰذَا i. e. [Make thou it, fashion it, or mould it,] according to the model, make, fashion, or mould, of this. (IAar, O and K in art. طبع.) And هٰذِهِ ضَرِيبَتُهُ الَّتِى ضُرِبَ عَلَيْهَا, and ضُرِبَهَا, and ضُرِبَ alone, [for ضُرِبَ عَلَيْهَا,] meaning طُبِعَ [i. e. This is his nature, with an adaptation, or a disposition, to which he was moulded, or created; or to which he was adapted, or disposed, by creation]. And ضُرِبَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى الكَرَمِ [Such a one was moulded, or created, with an adaptation or a disposition, to generosity; or was adapted, or disposed, by creation, or nature, to generosity].
35 ضَرَبَ مَثَلًا He rehearsed, propounded, or declared, a parable, a similitude, an example, or a proverb; said of God [and of a man]: or he mentioned, or set forth, a parable, &c.: or he framed a parable: thus expl., the verb has but one objective complement: or the phrase signifies he made [such a thing] an example, or the subject of a parable or similitude &c.; and so has two objective complements: in the saying in the Kur [xxxvi. 12] وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلًا أَصْحَابَ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ [And propound thou to them a parable, the people of the town] i. e., the story of the people of the town, [or make thou to them a parable, or similitude, or an example, the people of the town;] مثلا may be in the accus. case as an objective complement, اضحاب القرية being a substitute for مثلا; or اصحاب القرية may be regarded as a second objective complement [i. e. second in the order of the words, but first in the order of the sense]: the phrase is differently expl. on account of the different meanings of the verb ضَرَبَ; which signifies he described, or rehearsed; and he declared, propounded, or explained; and he made, caused to be, or constituted; &c.; accord. to some, it is taken from the phrase ضَرَبَ الدِرْهَمَ [q. v.]; because of the impression which a parable or the like makes upon the mind: accord. to some, from ضَرِيبٌ signifying “ a like; ” because the first thing is made like the second: accord. to some, from ضَرَبَ الطِّينَ عَلَى الجِدَارِ [q. v.; because the mud, applied as a plaster, conforms to the shape of the wall]: and accord. to some, from ضَرَبَ الخَاتَمَ [q. v.]; because of the correspondence between a parable or the like and the object to which it is applied, and the correspondence between the signet and its impression. يَضْرِبُ ٱللّٰهُ ٱلْحَقَّ وَٱلْباطِلَ, in the Kur [xiii. 18], means God likeneth, or compareth, truth and falsity. One says also, ضَرَبَ بِهِ مَثَلًا [He made him, or it, a subject of a parable, a similitude, an example, or a proverb; he propounded, or framed, a parable, &c., respecting him, or it]. And يُضْرَبُ المَثَلُ لِكَذَا [The proverb, &c., is applied to, in relation to, or to the case of, such a thing].
36 ضَرَبَ لَهُ أَجَلًا He specified, or notified, to, or for, him, or it, a term, or period.
37 ضَرَبَ لَهُمْ طَرِيقًا He assigned to them, or made for them, a way; syn. جَعَلَ.
38 الضَّرْبُ as a conventional term of the accountants, or arithmeticians, means The multiplying a number by another number; as when you say, [ضَرَبَ خَمْسةً فِى سِتَّةٍ He multiplied five by six; and] خَمْسَةٌ فِى سِتَّةٍ بِثَلَاثِينَ [Five multiplied by six is thirty].
39 ضَرَبَ [is often intrans., and thus] signifies also تَحَرَّكَ [i. e. It was, or became, in a state of commotion, &c.]: [see also 8, which is more commonly used in this sense:] or, so with strength, or force. [And hence several phrases here following.]
40 ضَرَبَ العِرْقُ Verbal.Noun ضَرْبٌ and ضَرَبَانٌ, The vein pulsed, or beat, and throbbed: and ضَرَبَ, Verbal.Noun ضَرَبَانٌ, it pained, and was, or became, in a state of strong commotion. And ضَرَبَ الجُرْحُ, Verbal.Noun ضَرَبَانٌ, The wound [throbbed; or] pained violently: and so الضِرْسُ [the tooth].
41 ضَرَبَتِ النَّاقَةُ, or, as in some lexicons, المَخَاضُ, The she-camel, or the pregnant camel, raised her tail, and smote her vulva with it, and then went along.
42 ضَرَبَ فِى جَهَازِهِ He took fright, and ran away at random, and ceased not to gallop and leap until he had thrown off all his furniture, or load.
43 جَآءَ يَضْرِبُ بِشَرٍّ He came hastening [with mischief, or] in an evil affair. It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, When such and such things shall happen, ضَرَبَ يَعْسُوبُ الدِّينِ بِذَنَبِهِ, meaning, accord. to AM, The leader of the religion shall hasten to go away through the land, fleeing from the faction, or sedition: or, as some say, shall go away hastily through the land, with his followers. (O, TA. [But see يَعْسُوبٌ: and see also ذَنَبٌ.]) And you say also, ضَرَبْتُ فِىالسَّيْرِ, Verbal.Noun ضَرْبٌ, I hastened in journeying. And ضَرَبَ فِى الأَرْضِ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun ضَرْبٌ and مَضْرَبٌ and ضَرَبَانٌ, He journeyed in the land seeking sustenance, and for the purpose of traffic: [and ضَرَبَ الأَرْضَ, as shown above, has a similar meaning:] or he went forth in the land as a merchant; or warring and plundering, or so ضَرَبَ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللّٰهِ [meaning in the cause of God]: or he hastened through the land: or he arose, and hastened in his journey through the land: or he went, or went away, in the land: or he traversed, or journeyed through, the land. The verb is [similarly] used in relation to almost all employments: you say, ضَرَبَ فِى التِّجَارَةِ [He travelled for the purpose of traffic]: and إِنَّ لِىفِى أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ لَمَضْرَبًا i. e. ضَرْبًا [Verily I have to make a journey for the sake of, or on account of, a thousand dirhems]. (S, TA: but in my copies of the S, لى is omitted.) And ضَرَبَتِ الطَّيْرُ, Present.T as above, The birds went, or went away, [or migrated,] seeking sustenance.
44 ضَرَبَ said of time, It went, passed, or passed away. And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ مِنْ ضَرَبَانِهِ, or, accord. to one reading, مِنْ ضَرْبِهِ, occurring in a trad., The time in part passed; [the time pursued a part of its course;] or a part of the time passed. And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ ضَرَبَانَهُ Fortune, or time, produced, or brought to pass, its events: a phrase like قُضِىَ مِنَ القَضَآءِ. And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ مِنْ ضَرَبَانِهِ أَنْ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا [Fortune, or time, brought to pass, among its events, that such and such things happened]. And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ بَيْنَنَا Fortune, or time, separated us: or made a wide separation between us; syn. بَعَّدَ.
45 Also It was, or became, long: so in the saying, ضَرَبَ اللَّيْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ [The night was, or became, long to them].
46 And ضَرَبَ إِلَيْهِ It inclined to it. [One says, يَضْرِبُ إِلَى السَّوَادِ It inclines to blackness, and إِلَى الحُمْرَةِ to redness, &c.: often occurring in the lexicons.]

def.2 ضَارَبَهُ فَضَرَبَهُ, Present.T of the latter ـُ: see 3.

def.3 ضَرُبَتْ يَدُهُ i. q. جَادَ ضَرْبُهَا [meaning Excellent, or how excellent, is his hand, or arm, in beating, striking, smiting, or hitting! a phrase similar to رَمُوتْ يَدُهُ].

def.4 ضَرِبَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun ضَرَبٌ, said of herbage, It was marred, or spoilt, by the cold: or it was smitten by the cold, and injured thereby, and by the wind. And ضَرِبَتِ الأَرْضُ, Verbal.Noun ضَرَبٌ, The land was smitten by hoar-frost, or rime, and its herbage was nipped, or blasted, thereby: and ضُرِبَت [in like manner] it was smitten by hoar-frost, or rime; or had hoar-frost, or rime, fallen upon it.
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