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ضَرِيبٌ

Root: ضرب

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ضَرِيبٌ i. q. مَضْرُوبٌ [Beaten, struck, &c.].
2 A tent-peg, or stake, struck so as to be firm in the ground; as also مَضْرُوبٌ .
3 See also ضَرْبٌ, in three places.
4 Also, or ضَرِيبُ الشَّوْلِ, accord. to Aboo-Nasr, Milk of which some is milked upon other: or, accord. to some of the Arabs of the desert, milk from a number of camels, some of it being thin, and some of it thick: or milk of which some is poured upon other: or such as is milked from a number of camels into one vessel, and mixed together, not consisting of less than the milk of three camels: or milk upon which other has been milked at night, and other on the morrow, and which has been mixed together. [See also صَرِيبٌ.]
5 And What is bad, of the kind of plants called حَمْض: or what is broken in pieces, thereof.

def.2 See also مِضْرَبٌ.
2 [Hence,] The person who is intrusted, as deputy, with [the disposal of] the gaming-arrows [in the game called المَيْسِر]: or the person who shuffles those arrows, or who plays with them; (اَلَّذِى يَضْرِبُ بِالقِدَاحِ;) as also ضَارِبٌ : or both of these epithets signify the person who shuffles those arrows (اَلَّذِى يَضْرِبُ بِالقِدَاحِ); and he is the person who is intrusted, as deputy, with [the disposal of] them: the former is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ: and the pl. is ضُرَبَآءُ. You say, هُوَضَرِيبِى, meaning He is my playfellow with the gamingarrows (مِنْ يَضْرِبُ القِدَاحَ مَعِى).
3 And الضَّرِيبُ is a name of The third arrow of those used in the game called المَيْسِر: that arrow is thus called by some: by others الرَّقِيبُ [q. v.]: it has three notches; and three portions are assigned to it if successful, and three fines if unsuccessful.
4 [Hence, app.,] ضَرِيبٌ signifies also A share, or portion.
5 Also Hoar-frost, or rime; like جَلِيدٌ and سَقِيطٌ: (S in art. جلد:) and snow.
6 And The head: so called because often in a state of agitation.

def.3 And i. q. شَهْدٌ [i. e. honey, or honey in its comb, or honey not expressed from its comb]: and عَسَلٌ ضَرِيبٌ honey becoming, or become, white and thick. (TA. [See also ضَرَبٌ.])

def.4 Also Big-bellied, (بَطِينٌ, [in some copies of the K بَطْن,]) [as an epithet] of men, and of others.
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