مِذْرَاعٌ
Root: ذرع
Full Definition
مِذْرَاعٌ
sing. of مَذَارِعٌ, [which is contr. to rule,] in a sense pointed out below, or in all the senses explained below, and of مَذَارِيعٌ, which is agreeable to rule.
2 مَذَارِعُ signifies The legs of a beast; as also مَذَارِيعُ, and ذَرِعَاتٌ; see ذَرِيعٌ; because the beast measures with them the ground: or, as some say, [like the pl. of ذِرَاعٌ,] the parts of a beast between the knee and the arm-pit.
def.2 مَذَارِعُ also signifies The towns (قُرَى, S, or بِلَاد, K) that are between the cultivated land and the desert; such as El-Kádiseeyeh and El-Ambár; in this sense, as in others, pl. of مِذْرَاعٌ; as also مَذَارِيعُ; syn. with مَزَالِفُ; and بَرَاغِيلُ: El-Hasan El-Basree speaks of the مَذَارِعُ of El-Yemen. [Freytag says, without mentioning his authority, that مَذَارِعُ has the same signification with the inhabitants of Nejd as مَخَالِيفُ with the inhabitants of El-Yemen and مَزَالِفُ in the region of El-Hijáz: but this is at variance with all that I have found, in respect of the term مخاليف.]
2 Also Parts, regions, quarters, or tracts, syn. نَوَاحٍ, of a land.
3 And The places of bending of a valley.
4 And Palm-trees that are near to houses or tents.
2 مَذَارِعُ signifies The legs of a beast; as also مَذَارِيعُ, and ذَرِعَاتٌ; see ذَرِيعٌ; because the beast measures with them the ground: or, as some say, [like the pl. of ذِرَاعٌ,] the parts of a beast between the knee and the arm-pit.
def.2 مَذَارِعُ also signifies The towns (قُرَى, S, or بِلَاد, K) that are between the cultivated land and the desert; such as El-Kádiseeyeh and El-Ambár; in this sense, as in others, pl. of مِذْرَاعٌ; as also مَذَارِيعُ; syn. with مَزَالِفُ; and بَرَاغِيلُ: El-Hasan El-Basree speaks of the مَذَارِعُ of El-Yemen. [Freytag says, without mentioning his authority, that مَذَارِعُ has the same signification with the inhabitants of Nejd as مَخَالِيفُ with the inhabitants of El-Yemen and مَزَالِفُ in the region of El-Hijáz: but this is at variance with all that I have found, in respect of the term مخاليف.]
2 Also Parts, regions, quarters, or tracts, syn. نَوَاحٍ, of a land.
3 And The places of bending of a valley.
4 And Palm-trees that are near to houses or tents.
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