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فَازِرٌ

Root: فزر

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فَازِرٌ A wide road; as also فُزْرَةٌ : or a wide and conspicuous road: or, accord. to ISh, a road that passes over the [eminences termed] نِجَاف [pl. of نَجَفٌ] and the [hills, or small mountains termed] قُور [pl. of قَارَةٌ], and cleaves them as though it made furrows upon their heads: you say, أَخَذْنَاالفَازِرَ and أَخَذْنَاطَرِيقَ الفَازِرِ, meaning [We took] the road that made a track upon the heads and the base of the mountains. And فَازِرَةٌ [or طَرِيقٌ فَازِرَةٌ] signifies A road taking its course in a tract of sand amid sands that are compact and cleaving to the ground, and soft; appearing like an extended, long, natural cleft in the ground: the same meaning is also assigned to فَارِزَةٌ. (K * and TA in art. فرز.)

def.2 Also A species of ants, black ants, in which is a redness: mentioned also among words of which the final radical is ز [as being called فَارِزٌ].
2 And The round black thing [app. a species of animalcule] found in [dried] dates.
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