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خُدَارِىٌّ

Root: خدر

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خُدَارِىٌّ A dark night; as also أَخْدَرُ and مُخْدِرٌ and خَدِرٌ and خَدَرٌ and خَدُرٌ . A black cloud. A camel intensely black: fem. with ة. (S. [See also خُدْرِىٌّ.]) Black hair. And خُدَارِيَّةٌ الشَّعَرِ A black-haired girl.
2 خُدَارِيَّةٌ also signifies An eagle; because of its colour; i. e. its intense blackness. In the following verse, كَأَنَّ عُقَابًا خُدَارِيَّةً تُنَشِّرُ فِى الجَوِّ مِنْهَا جَنَاحَا [which may be rendered, As though a black eagle spread in the sky its wing], Th says that the poet may mean, by عُقَابًا, the bird [so called], or a banner, or garments of the kind called أَبْرَاد, which they spread over them.
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