قَرْضَبَهُ
Root: قرضب
Form: Q. 1
Full Definition
2 And He separated it; or separated it into several, or many parts; or dispersed it; i. e., a thing.
3 And He collected it together; namely, flesh-meat in a cooking-pot: thus it has two contr. significations.
4 And He ate it entirely; namely, flesh-meat: and in like manner, قَرْضَبَ الشَّاةَ, said of the wolf, he ate entirely the sheep, or goat. And [the Verbal.Noun] قَرْضَبَةٌ is said to signify The [eating indiscriminately,] not clearing, or freeing, the moist, or tender, from the dry, or tough, by reason of vehement voracity.
5 And قرضب said of a man, He ate a dry, or tough, thing.
6 And He ran in the manner termed عَدْوٌ: or قَرْضَبَةٌ signifies [a running] such as falls short of what is termed عَدْوٌ.
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