ضَرَآءٌ
Root: ضرو
Full Definition
ضَرَآءٌ
A level tract of land in which are beasts of prey and a few trees: or a piece of land, or ground, that conceals one: and trees, &c., that conceal one: or a thicket; or tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees; in a valley. One says, تَوَارَى
الصَّيْدُ مِنِّى فِى ضَرَآءِ الوَادِى [The game hid itself from me in the tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees of the valley]. And فُلَانٌ
يَمْشِى الضَّرَآءَ, with fet-h, meaning Such a one goes along lurking among the trees that conceal him. And هُوَ يَدِبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَآءَ وَيَمْشِى لَهُ الخَمَرَ [He creeps to him in the thicket, and walks, or goes along, to him in the covert of trees]: said of a man when he deludes, or circumvents, his companion: but accord. to IAar, ضرآء here means a low, or depressed, place. And فُلَانٌ لَا يُدَبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَآءُ [app. meaning The thicket will not be crept through to such a one: but mentioned after the last of the explanations here following]. [See also ضَرَّآءُ, in art. ضر.]
2 [It is said that] it signifies also The hiding or concealing, oneself: [or] the walking, or going along, in that which conceals one from him whom one beguiles, or circumvents.
2 [It is said that] it signifies also The hiding or concealing, oneself: [or] the walking, or going along, in that which conceals one from him whom one beguiles, or circumvents.
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