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انضرج

Root: ضرج

Form: 7

Full Definition

انضرجVII It split, slit, or rent asunder or open; as also انضرج; (TA in art. ضرح;) and so تضرّج [but app. in an intensive sense, or said of a number of things]: the latter is said of a garment in the former sense; or as meaning it became much rent, or rent in several places. When the fruits of herbs, or leguminous plants, appear, one says, اِنْضَرَجَتْ عَنْهَا لَفَائِفُهَا and أَكْمَامُهَا [i. e. Their envelopes, or pericarps, and their calyxes, rent asunder or open, so as to disclose them]. And one says also, عَنِ البَقْلِ لَفَائِفُهُ, meaning اِنْفَتَحَت [i. e. The envelopes, or pericarps, of the herbs, or leguminous plants, opened so as to disclose what was within them]. And تضرّج النَّوْرُ The blossoms opened. And انضرج الشَّجَرُ The buds of the trees burst open and the extremities of the leaves appeared. And تضرّج said of lightning means تَشَقَّقَ [i. e. It clave the clouds, and extended high, into the midst of the sky; or it was in a state of commotion in the clouds; or it spread wide and long].
2 Also It was, or became, wide, or ample. You say, انضرجت لَنَا الطَّرِيقُ The road was, or became, wide to us. And انضرج مَا بَيْنَ القَوْمِ The space between the people was, or became, far-extending: and so انضرج. (S in art. ضرح.)
3 انضرجت العُقَابُ The eagle darted down upon the prey: or betook itself, or advanced, to it: or took a sidelong course to it.
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