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بَرْذَعَةٌ

Root: برذع

Full Definition

بَرْذَعَةٌ and بَرْدَعَةٌ A [cloth of the kind called] حِلْس which is put beneath the [saddle called] رَحْل of the camel: pl. بَرَاذِعُ and بَرَادِعُ Ru-beh says, [using the sing. without the ة as a coll. gen. n.,] وَ تَحْتَ أَحْنَآءِ الرِّحَالِ [And beneath the curved pieces of wood of the camels' saddles are the bardha'ahs].
2 This is the primary signification: but in the conventional language of our time, it is applied to An ass's saddle; the thing upon which one rides on an ass, like the سَرْج to the horse; [i. e. a pad, or stuffed saddle; generally stuffed with straw; and used for a mule as well as for an ass;] or an ass's برذعة is a saddle like the رَحْل and قَتَب. (TA voce إِكَافٌ, q. v.)

def.2 بَرْذَعَةٌ also signifies Land which is neither hard nor soft: pl. as above.
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