ضِرْوٌ
Root: ضرو
Full Definition
ضِرْوٌ
A dog, or young dog, such as is termed
ضَارٍ [i. e. habituated, or accustomed, to the chase]; as also
ضَرِىٌّ : (K, TA: [in the CK, كالضَّرَى is erroneously put for كَالضَّرِىِّ:]) the latter word is like غَنِىٌّ: the fem. of the former is with ة: and the pl. [of pauc.] أَضْرٍ [originally أَضْرُوٌ] and [of mult.] ضِرَآءٌ.
def.2 And A taint of جُذَام [or elephantiasis]: occurring in a trad. in which it is said of Aboo-Bekr, أَكَلَ مَعَ رَجُلٍ
def.3 Also, and , A species of tree, of sweet odour, with [the wood of] which the teeth are rubbed and cleansed, and the leaves of which are put into perfume; i. q. مَحْلَبٌ [q. v.]; so says Lth: AHn says, the places of its growth are mostly in ElYemen; and some say that the ضِرْو is the بُطْم [or terebinth-tree, or the fruit thereof]: AHn says also, it is of the trees of the mountains, and is like the great oak, having clusters [of berries] like those of the oak, but its berries are larger; its leaves are cooked, and, when thoroughly cooked, are cleared away, and the water thereof is returned to the fire, and coagulates, becoming like قُبَيْطَآء [q. v.], and is used medicinally as a remedy for roughness of the chest and for pain of the fauces: or the gum of a certain tree called the كَمْكَام [i. e. the cancamum-tree], brought from El-Yemen: or this is a mistake, for it is the tree so called, not its gum: [but] it is said in the T, on the authority of AHn, that كَمْكَام signifies the bark (قِرْف) of the tree called ضِرْو: and some say that it is the resin (عِلْك) of the ضِرْو: and in the Moheet of Ibn-'Abbád it is said that كَمْكَام signifies the bark (قِرْف, or, as some say, لِحَآء,) of the tree called ضِرْو, and is an aromatic perfume: and IAar says, the ضِرْو is the حَبَّة خَضْرَآء [or fruit of the terebinth-tree], which is also sometimes used for rubbing and cleansing the teeth: when a girl rubs and cleanses her teeth with a stick of the tree called ضِرْو the saliva with which the stick is moistened from her mouth is like honey: and the word is also pronounced .
def.2 And A taint of جُذَام [or elephantiasis]: occurring in a trad. in which it is said of Aboo-Bekr, أَكَلَ مَعَ رَجُلٍ
def.3 Also, and , A species of tree, of sweet odour, with [the wood of] which the teeth are rubbed and cleansed, and the leaves of which are put into perfume; i. q. مَحْلَبٌ [q. v.]; so says Lth: AHn says, the places of its growth are mostly in ElYemen; and some say that the ضِرْو is the بُطْم [or terebinth-tree, or the fruit thereof]: AHn says also, it is of the trees of the mountains, and is like the great oak, having clusters [of berries] like those of the oak, but its berries are larger; its leaves are cooked, and, when thoroughly cooked, are cleared away, and the water thereof is returned to the fire, and coagulates, becoming like قُبَيْطَآء [q. v.], and is used medicinally as a remedy for roughness of the chest and for pain of the fauces: or the gum of a certain tree called the كَمْكَام [i. e. the cancamum-tree], brought from El-Yemen: or this is a mistake, for it is the tree so called, not its gum: [but] it is said in the T, on the authority of AHn, that كَمْكَام signifies the bark (قِرْف) of the tree called ضِرْو: and some say that it is the resin (عِلْك) of the ضِرْو: and in the Moheet of Ibn-'Abbád it is said that كَمْكَام signifies the bark (قِرْف, or, as some say, لِحَآء,) of the tree called ضِرْو, and is an aromatic perfume: and IAar says, the ضِرْو is the حَبَّة خَضْرَآء [or fruit of the terebinth-tree], which is also sometimes used for rubbing and cleansing the teeth: when a girl rubs and cleanses her teeth with a stick of the tree called ضِرْو the saliva with which the stick is moistened from her mouth is like honey: and the word is also pronounced .
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