غَضًا
Root: غضو
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غَضًا
, said by Th to be written [thus] with ا but ISd says, I know not why this is; [the latter, it seems, holding its last letter to be originally ى, not و;] A species of trees, well known, the wood of which is of the hardest of wood, and therefore there is hardness in its charcoal; it is of the plants of the sands, and has [sprigs, or foliage, of the kind termed] هَدَب [q. v.], like that called
أَرْطًى; and its fire is of long continuance: [see also رِمْثٌ: Mr. Palgrave describes it as a shrub believed by him to be peculiar to the Arabian Peninsula, “ of the genus Euphorbia, with a woody stem, often five or six feet in height, and innumerable round green twigs, very slender and flexible, forming a large feathery tuft, not ungraceful to the eye, while it affords some kind of shelter to the traveller, and food to his camels: ”] the sing. [or rather n. un.] is غَضَاةٌ: and AHn says that sometimes غَضَاتٌ is a pl. [of the n. un.].
2 Hence, ذِئْبُ غَضًا [A wolf of trees, or shrubs, called غَضًا]; or, as in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeyà ذِئْبُ الغَضَا; and such is the most abominable, or malignant, or noxious, of wolves; for he comes not into close proximity to men save when he desires to attack: or this means the wolf of the covert of trees: for
3 غَضًا signifies also A covert of trees: and a غَيْضَة [i. e. thicket; or collection of tangled, or confused, or dense, trees; &c.].
4 أَهْلُ الغَضَا is an appellation of the people of Nejd, because of the abundance of [the trees called] غضا there.
2 Hence, ذِئْبُ غَضًا [A wolf of trees, or shrubs, called غَضًا]; or, as in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeyà ذِئْبُ الغَضَا; and such is the most abominable, or malignant, or noxious, of wolves; for he comes not into close proximity to men save when he desires to attack: or this means the wolf of the covert of trees: for
3 غَضًا signifies also A covert of trees: and a غَيْضَة [i. e. thicket; or collection of tangled, or confused, or dense, trees; &c.].
4 أَهْلُ الغَضَا is an appellation of the people of Nejd, because of the abundance of [the trees called] غضا there.
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