ضَرِيعٌ
Root: ضرع
Full Definition
def.2 Also, the first of these words, mentioned in the Kur lxxxviii. 6, i. q. شِبْرِقٌ; which is A bad sort of pasture, upon which the pasturing cattle do not make (لَا تَعْقِدُ) fat nor flesh, and which renders them in a bad condition if they do not quit it and betake themselves to other pasture; or, accord. to IAth, the شبرق is a certain plant in El-Hijáz, having large thorns: or, the plant called شِبْرِق that is dried up; شبرق being its appellation when it is in its fresh state; the people of El-Hijáz call it ضريع in its dry state; and it is [said to be] a plant which the beast will not approach, because of its bad quality: and what is dry of any tree; accord. to some, peculiarly, of the عَرْفَج and خُلَّة; or [any] dry herbage: (TA in art. بحت:) and, accord. to Lth, a certain plant in water that has become altered for the worse by long standing or the like, having roots that reach not to the ground: or a certain thing in Hell, more bitter than aloes, and more stinking than the carcass, and hotter than fire; the food of the inmates of Hell; but this was unknown to the [pagan] Arabs: and, as some say, a certain plant, green, thus in the L, but in the “ Mufradát ” red, of fetid odour, cast up by the sea, light, and hollow: and, accord. to Abu-l-Jowzà, the prickles of the palm-tree: and, accord. to IAar, the [thorny tree called] عَوْسَج, in its fresh state.
2 Also Wine: or thin wine: or thin beverage.
3 And the skin that is upon the bone, beneath the flesh of the rib: or the integument upon it.
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