ذَرِيعٌ
Root: ذرع
Full Definition
ذَرِيعٌ
Wide in step, and light, or active, in pace, or going; applied to a horse, and to a camel; as also
ذَرُوعٌ : and quick: [and so
ذَرِعٌ ; for]
, applied to the legs of a quadruped (قَوَائِمٌ), signifies quick, wide in step, taking much of the ground: or, as some say, this last word signifies the legs of a beast, like
مَذَارِعُ , pl. of مِذْرَاعٌ. It is said of Mohammad, in a trad., كَانَ
ذَرِيعَ المَشْىِ He was quick, and wide of step, in walking. And you say, رَجُلٌ ذَرِيعٌ بِالِكِتَابَةِ A man quick in writing. And أَكَلَ
أَكْلًا ذَرِيعًا He ate quickly and much. And قَتْلٌ ذَرِيعٌ Quick slaughter. And مَوْتٌ ذَرِيعٌ Spreading death: or quick, spreading death, such that the people can hardly, or can in no wise, bury one another.
2 An ample thing, affair, or state.
def.2 An intercessor.
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