ضَرَعٌ
Root: ضرع
Full Definition
ضَرَعٌ
Lowly, humble, submissive, or in a state of abasement; [originally an Verbal.Noun, and therefore, as an epithet,] applied to a single person and to a pl. number: and
ضَارِعٌ signifies the same, applied to a single person; as also
مُسْتَضْرِعٌ , accord. To Lth, one says, خَدُّكَ ضَارِعٌ , and
أَضْرَعُ , which signifies the same, and
جَنْبُكَ ضَارِعٌ , [meaning, as is implied in the O, Thy cheek is lowly &c., and so thy side, and the like is said in the Ham p. 590,] and
أَنْتَ ضَارِعٌ [Thou art lowly &c.]: and the pl. of ضَارِعٌ is ضَرَعَةٌ and ضُرُوعٌ: or
ضَارِعٌ signifies, and so
ضَرِعٌ , and [in an intensive sense]
ضَرُوعٌ and
ضَرَعَةٌ , lowering, humbling, or abasing, himself: or thus, and making petition for a gift: and ضَرَعٌ signifies weak; as also
ضَرِعٌ ; the former originally an Verbal.Noun [and therefore, as an epithet,] applied to a single person and to a pl. number: and ضَرَعٌ and
ضَارِعٌ
small; applied to anything: or small in age, weak, and lean, spare, or light of flesh: and الجِسْمِ, and
ضَرِعٌ , lean, spare, or light of flesh, and weak, in the body; applied to a man: and ضَرَعٌ applied to a colt, not having strength to run, by reason of the smallness of his age. Also
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