عَرَكَهُ

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عَرَكَهُI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun عَرْكٌ, He rubbed it, or rubbed and pressed it, or did so well; syn. دَلَكَهُ; namely, a thing; such as a skin or hide, or a tanned skin or hide, and the like.
2 And [He wore it away by scraping, &c.;] he scraped, rubbed, chafed, or fretted, it, until he erased, or effaced, it.
3 Hence, عَرَكَ بِجَنْبِهِ مَا كَانَ مِنْ صَاحِبِهِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, meaning [He acted] as though he scraped, &c., [with his side,] what had proceeded from his companion, until he erased, or effaced, it: [like as a camel allays an itching by rubbing with his side the trunk of a tree: i. e. he bore, or endured, what proceeded from his companion: for] يَعْرُكُ الأَذَى بِجَنْبِهِ means يَحْتَمِلُهُ [i. e. He bears, or endures, annoyance, or molestation; or forgives it, and feigns himself neglectful of it]. (O and K in explanation of عُرَكَةٌ.)
4 And عَرَكْتُ القَوْمَ فِى الحَرْبِ, Verbal.Noun as above, [I fretted, or ground, or crushed, the party in the war, or battle.] And عَرَكَتْهُمُ الحَرْبُ i. q. دَارَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ [i. e., lit., The war, or battle, revolved upon them like the mill or mill-stone; meaning fretted, or ground, or crushed, them]. Zuheyr says, فَتَعْرُكْكُمُ عَرْكَ الرَّحَى بِثِفَالِهِا وَتَلْقَحٌ كِشَافًا ثُمَّ تُنْتَجٌ فَتُتْئِمِ meaning And it, i. e. war, will fret [or grind or crush] you, as the mill with its skin put beneath it, upon which the flour falls, frets [or grinds] the grain; and it, i. e. war, will conceive two years, one after the other; then bring forth, and give birth to twins: he makes war's destruction of them to be like the mill's grinding of the grain, and the various evils that are engendered from war to be like children.
5 عَرَكَ أُذُنَهُ, Verbal.Noun عَرْكٌ, He rubbed, or rubbed and pressed, [or generally, as now used, he wrung, or twisted,] his ear.
6 عَرَكَ ظَهْرَهَا, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He felt her back, namely, that of a she-camel, &c., doing so much or often, to know her state of fatness: and عَرَكَ السَّنَامَ He felt the hump, to know if there were in it fatness or not.
7 عَرَكَ البَعِيُر جَنْبَهُ بِمِرْفَقِهِ, Verbal.Noun as above, The camel made an incision, or a cut, in his side with his elbow, and rubbed it, or rubbed and pressed it, so as to reach to the flesh, cutting through the skin: in which case the epithets عَارِكٌ and عَرَكْرَكٌ are applied to the camel. [See also عَرْكٌ below, which indicates another meaning.]
8 عَرَكَهُ Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, also signifies He put upon him evil and misfortune: (K, TA: [the CK has حَمَلَ عليهِ الشَّرُّ والدَّهْرُ, meaning evil and misfortune assailed him, instead of حَمَلَ عَلَيهِ الشَّرَّ وَالدَّهْرَ, as in other copies of the K and in the TA:]) and, as some say, عَرَكَهُ بِشَرٍّ signifies he did evil to him, or brought evil upon him, repeatedly.
9 عَرَكَ الدَّهْرُ فُلَانًا Time, or fortune, rendered such a one experienced; or trained, or disciplined, and reformed, or improved, him.
10 عَرَكَ الإِبِلَ فِى الحَمْضِ He left the camels amid the plants termed حَمْض, to obtain thereof what they wanted.
11 عَرَكَتِ المَاشِيَةُ النَّبَاتَ The cattle ate the plants, or herbage.
12 عَرَكَتْ said of a woman, or of a girl, or young woman, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun عُرُوكٌ and عَرَاكٌ and عَرْكٌ, She menstruated; as also .

def.2 عَرِكَ, [Present.T ـَ] Verbal.Noun عَرَكٌ, He was, or became, such as is termed عِرِكٌ [q. v.]; strong, or vehement, in striving, contending, or conflicting, and in might, courage, valour, or prowess, in war, or battle, and in altercation.

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