ضَرَطَ

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ضَرَطَI , Present.T ـِ; and ضَرِطَ, Present.T ـَ; Verbal.Noun ضَرِطٌ and ضَرْطٌ and ضَرِيطٌ and ضُرَاطٌ, or the last is a simple subst., [a coarse word, signifying] He broke wind, i. e. emitted wind from the anus, with a sound. [When it is without sound, you say فَسَا.] Hence the prov., أَوْدَى العَيْرُ إِلَّا ضَرِطًا The ass had no power remaining except [that of] emitting wind from the anus, with a sound: applied to a vile, or an abject, person, and to an old man; and in allusion to a thing's becoming in a bad, or corrupt, state, so that there remains of it nothing but what is of no use: the last word is in the accus. case as denoting a thing of a different kind from that signified by the preceding noun. And أَجْبَنُ مِنَ المَنْزُوفِ ضَرِطًا [More cowardly than he who is exhausted by emitting wind from the anus, with a sound]: another prov.: [its origin is variously related: see Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 320:] or المَنْزُوفُ ضَرِطًا [or ضَرْطًا, for it is differently written in different copies of the K,] is a certain beast, between the dog and the cat, or between the dog and the wolf, which, when one cries out at it, emits wind from the anus, with a sound, by reason of cowardice.

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