مَرْدَغَةٌ
Root: ردغ
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مَرْدَغَةٌ
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رَوْضَة [i. e. meadow, or garden,] that is beautiful, or goodly; or that is beautiful in appearance, exciting admiration, and satisfying the eye: and so مَرْغَدَةٌ.
def.2 Also sing. of مَرَادِغُ, which signifies The parts between the neck and the collar-bone: also called the بَآدِل. And The portion of flesh [or muscle] between the وَابِلَة of the كَتِف [i. e. the extremity in which is the glenoid cavity of the shoulder-blade, or the muscle of the shoulderblade,] and the heads of the ribs of the breast: or the مَرَادِغ are [the parts] beneath the two collar-bones, on each side of the breast. And you say نَاقَةٌ ذَاتُ مَرَادِغَ and جَمَلٌ ذُو مَرَادِغَ meaning A fat she-camel and he-camel: ISh says, when the camel is satisfied by abundance of herbage, he has مرادغ in his belly and upon the upper parts of his shoulder-blades, i. e. accumulated fat thereon, like hares lying down; but when he is not fat, there is no there. مَرْدَغَةُ العُنُقِ means A portion of flesh [or a muscle, app. of a camel,] upon the hinder side of the rising part from the middle of the عَضُد [or humerus] to the elbow: or, as some say, the flesh of the breast. And مَرَادِغُ السَّنَامِ means The fat that adjoins the مَأْنَة [q. v., of the hump]: sing. مَرْدَغَةٌ.
def.2 Also sing. of مَرَادِغُ, which signifies The parts between the neck and the collar-bone: also called the بَآدِل. And The portion of flesh [or muscle] between the وَابِلَة of the كَتِف [i. e. the extremity in which is the glenoid cavity of the shoulder-blade, or the muscle of the shoulderblade,] and the heads of the ribs of the breast: or the مَرَادِغ are [the parts] beneath the two collar-bones, on each side of the breast. And you say نَاقَةٌ ذَاتُ مَرَادِغَ and جَمَلٌ ذُو مَرَادِغَ meaning A fat she-camel and he-camel: ISh says, when the camel is satisfied by abundance of herbage, he has مرادغ in his belly and upon the upper parts of his shoulder-blades, i. e. accumulated fat thereon, like hares lying down; but when he is not fat, there is no there. مَرْدَغَةُ العُنُقِ means A portion of flesh [or a muscle, app. of a camel,] upon the hinder side of the rising part from the middle of the عَضُد [or humerus] to the elbow: or, as some say, the flesh of the breast. And مَرَادِغُ السَّنَامِ means The fat that adjoins the مَأْنَة [q. v., of the hump]: sing. مَرْدَغَةٌ.
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