عَرَآءٌ
Root: عرى
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عَرَآءٌ
[is app. a subst. signifying Nakedness, or bareness, or the like: for عَرَآءُ العِظَامِ مِنَ اللَّحْمِ occurs in the TA, in art. عجف, evidently as meaning Leanness of the bones.
def.2 Also] A wide, or spacious, place or tract of land, in which is nothing that hides, or conceals, or in which nothing will be hidden, or in which one will not be hidden by anything; occurring in the Kur xxxvii. 145 [and lxviii. 49]: or the vacant surface of the earth or land, or of a wide space of land: or a tract such as is termed جَهْرَآءُ [q. v.]: (TA in art. جهر:) pl. أَعْرَآءٌ. [In the TA in art. جهر the pl. is said to be أَعْرِيَةٌ. See also عَرَى.]
def.2 Also] A wide, or spacious, place or tract of land, in which is nothing that hides, or conceals, or in which nothing will be hidden, or in which one will not be hidden by anything; occurring in the Kur xxxvii. 145 [and lxviii. 49]: or the vacant surface of the earth or land, or of a wide space of land: or a tract such as is termed جَهْرَآءُ [q. v.]: (TA in art. جهر:) pl. أَعْرَآءٌ. [In the TA in art. جهر the pl. is said to be أَعْرِيَةٌ. See also عَرَى.]
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