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آدَرُ

Root: ادر

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آدَرُ and مَأْدُورٌ A man [having a scrotal hernia; or] having an inflation in the خُصْيَة [or the testicle, or the scrotum]: or having an inflation of the خُصْيَة: or having his صِفَاق [or inner skin] ruptured, so that [some of] his intestines fall into his scrotum; the rupture being in every instance only in the left side: or afflicted by a rupture in one of his خُصْيَانِ [or in either half of the scrotum]: or having a largeness of the خُصَى pl. of the former, أُدُرٌ; and of the latter, مَآدِيرُ. Accord. to some, أَدْرَآءُ خُصْيَةٌ signifies [A testicle, or scrotum,] large, without rupture.
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