Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُحَرَّدٌ

Root: حرد

Full Definition

مُحَرَّدٌ A rope plaited so that it has prominent edges, by reason of its distortion. (S, L. [See also 2; and see حَرِدٌ.]) And A bow-string strongly twisted, having one or more of its strands, or the several portions of which it is composed, appearing over, or above, others; as also مُعَجَّرٌ.
2 Crooked, curved, or bent, [in the form of an arch: see 2:] applied to anything.
3 A room in which are [bundles such as are called] حَرَادِىّ of reeds, or canes, laid across [over the rafters of the roof]; as also مُحَرَّدَةٌ applied as an epithet to a room of the kind called غُرْفَة: and the former word, used as a subst., signifies as above.
4 Also, or بَيْتٌ مُحَرَّدٌ, A house [or hut] with a gibbous roof, such as is termed كوخ.


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