مُطْرِقٌ
Root: طرق
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مُطْرِقٌ
Having a natural laxness of the eye [or rather of the eyelids, and a consequent lowering of the eye towards the ground]: [or bending down the head: or lowering the eyes, looking towards the ground; either naturally or otherwise: ] and silent, or keeping silence. (TA. See also طِرِّيقٌ.)
2 It is also applied as an epithet to a stallion-camel: and to a [she-camel such as is termed] جُمَالِيَّة [i. e. one resembling a he-camel in greatness of make], and, thus applied, [and app. likewise when applied to a stallion-camel,] it may mean That does not utter a grumbling cry, nor vociferate: or, accord. to Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, [quick in pace, for he says that] it is from طَرْقٌ signifying “ quickness of going. ”
3 See also مِطْرَاقٌ, last sentence.
4 And, applied to a man,
def.2 Also An enemy: from أَطْرَقَ فُلَانٌ لِفُلَانٍ expl. above [see 4, last sentence].
2 It is also applied as an epithet to a stallion-camel: and to a [she-camel such as is termed] جُمَالِيَّة [i. e. one resembling a he-camel in greatness of make], and, thus applied, [and app. likewise when applied to a stallion-camel,] it may mean That does not utter a grumbling cry, nor vociferate: or, accord. to Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, [quick in pace, for he says that] it is from طَرْقٌ signifying “ quickness of going. ”
3 See also مِطْرَاقٌ, last sentence.
4 And, applied to a man,
def.2 Also An enemy: from أَطْرَقَ فُلَانٌ لِفُلَانٍ expl. above [see 4, last sentence].
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