ضَرَّآءُ
Root: ضر
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ضَرَّآءُ
A hurtful state or condition; contr. of
سَرَّآءُ: or hardship, distress, or straitness of condition [or of the means of subsistence, or of the conveniences of life]; i. q.
شِدَّةٌ; as also بَأْسَآءُ, like which it is a fem. n. without a mase.; and accord. to Fr, أَضُرٌّ and أَبْؤُسٌ may be used as pls. of these two ns.: or, accord. to Az,
def.2 [Also, accord. to Freytag, Tangled trees, in a valley: but the word having this meaning is correctly ضَرَآءٌ, belonging to art. ضرو and ضرى, q. v. And be explains it also as meaning a bare, or an open, place; and the contr. i. e. a place covered with trees; referring to the “ Kitáb el-Addád. ”]
def.2 [Also, accord. to Freytag, Tangled trees, in a valley: but the word having this meaning is correctly ضَرَآءٌ, belonging to art. ضرو and ضرى, q. v. And be explains it also as meaning a bare, or an open, place; and the contr. i. e. a place covered with trees; referring to the “ Kitáb el-Addád. ”]
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