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أَذْرَعُ

Root: ذرع

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أَذْرَعُ [More, and most, light, or active, and quick, with the arms, or hands, or otherwise]. It is said in a trad., خَيْرُ كُنَّ أَذْرَعُكُنَّ لِلْغَزْلِ The best of you females is the most light, or active, of hand, of you, in spinning: or, the most able of you to spin. And قَتَلُوهُمْ أَذْرَعَ قَتْلٍ They slew them with the quickest slaughter.
2 More, and most, chaste in speech. You say, هُوَ أَذْرَعُ مِنْهُ He is more chaste of speech than he.

def.2 One whose mother is Arabian but not his father; syn. مُقْرِفٌ: or the son of an Arabian man by an emancipated slavewoman: the former is the more correct. [See also مُذَرَّعٌ.]
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