فَارِعٌ
Root: فرع
Full Definition
فَارِعٌ
[Overtopping, or surpassing in height or tallness: this seems to be the primary signification]. You say جَبَلٌ فَارِعٌ
A mountain higher, or taller, than what is next to it.
2 And High, or tall; applied to a man, and to an extended gibbous piece of sand.
3 And High, or elevated; goodly in form or aspect or appearance; beautiful: or [simply] high [app. in rank or dignity]: and also low, ignoble, or mean: thus having two contr. significations.
4 And a man of the Arabs said, لَقِيتُ فُلَانًا فَارِعًا , meaning [I met such a one] one of us ascending and the other descending.
def.2 Also sing. of فَرَعَةٌ, which signifies The armed attendants, or guards, of the Sultán, or sovereign: it is like وَازِعٌ.
2 And High, or tall; applied to a man, and to an extended gibbous piece of sand.
3 And High, or elevated; goodly in form or aspect or appearance; beautiful: or [simply] high [app. in rank or dignity]: and also low, ignoble, or mean: thus having two contr. significations.
4 And a man of the Arabs said, لَقِيتُ فُلَانًا فَارِعًا , meaning [I met such a one] one of us ascending and the other descending.
def.2 Also sing. of فَرَعَةٌ, which signifies The armed attendants, or guards, of the Sultán, or sovereign: it is like وَازِعٌ.
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