Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عُرْضِيَّةٌ

Root: عرض

Full Definition

عُرْضِيَّةٌ : see what next precedes. Refractoriness, and a random or heedless manner of going, by reason of pride: in a horse, the going sideways: and in a she-camel, the state of being untrained: and in a man, [so expressly shown in the S and TA; but in the CK, قِيلَ is erroneously put for فِيكَ;] what resembles roughness, ungentleness, or awkwardness; want of due care, by reason of haste; (syn. عَجْرَفِيَّةٌ;) and pride; and refractoriness.

def.2 [See also عَرْضِىٌّ.]


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