ذرع

ذَرْع

The stretching or extending of the arm or foreleg.

A primary concrete noun for extending a human forearm or an animal's foreleg.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرَعَ

To measure something with a cubit, especially cloth or another length.

The object is measured by the ذراع rather than by counting it.

• Lane · entry 21446

تَذْرَعُ

Of a she-camel, to traverse the desert swiftly as though measuring it with her extended forelegs.

A figurative extension from the movement of the forelegs.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرَعَ

To strangle or throttle someone with the forearm.

The more precise construction places the person's neck between the forearm and the neck or upper arm.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرَعَ البَعِيرَ

To tread on a camel's foreleg so that it lies still and can be mounted.

A specialized handling of a camel lying with its forelegs folded.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرَعَهُ القَيْءُ / أَذْرَعَ قَيْئَهُ

For vomit to overcome someone and come forth involuntarily; in the causative construction, to emit or eject one's vomit.

The first construction presents vomiting as an involuntary occurrence; the second presents the person as ejecting it.

• Lane · entry 21446
• Lane · entry 21449

ذَرَعَ عِنْدَهُ

To intercede for someone with an authority.

A figurative extension from stretching the arm toward someone.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرِعَ

To drink from a skin vessel of the type called ذَارِع.

A specialized verbal use associated with a particular kind of skin container.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرِعَتْ رِجْلَاهُ

For one's legs to become tired or fatigued.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرَاعَة

Being wide in step and light or active in pace.

A verbal noun describing breadth and agility of movement.

• Lane · entry 21446

ذَرَّعَ

To spread oneself out and stretch the forearms while swimming; also to move the arms to aid walking, rapid walking, or running.

The construction describes coordinated arm movement in locomotion or swimming.

• Lane · entry 21447

ذَرَّعَ

To raise the forearms or signal with the arm or hand, especially when announcing good news or warning.

The arm gesture functions as a sign accompanying an announcement.

• Lane · entry 21447

ذَرَّعَ لَهُ مِنْ خَبَرِهِ

To inform someone of part of one's news or circumstances.

A figurative Form II use, traditionally explained as extending an arm with information.

• Lane · entry 21447

ذَرَّعَ بِكَذَا

To acknowledge or confess something.

An assumed figurative use of the Form II verb.

• Lane · entry 21447

ذَرَّعَهُ

To kill or slay someone.

A figurative usage reported as an extension of the Form II branch.

• Lane · entry 21447

ذَرَّعَ البَعِيرَ

To bind both forelegs of a camel to its shanks, or to bind it with the excess of its nose-rein upon its foreleg.

A specialized camel-handling construction.

• Lane · entry 21447

تَذْرِيع

To stain a captive's forearm with saffron or a similar pigment as a sign that he is to be slaughtered.

A pre-Islamic marking practice associated with a captive's forearm.

• Lane · entry 21447

مُذَارَعَة

Selling cloth or another article by cubit measure rather than by number.

The cited commercial construction specifies measurement with the cubit and sale without knowing the exact measure in advance.

• Lane · entry 21448

ذَارَعَهُ

To mix socially with someone, become intimate with him, or enter into partnership or sharing with him.

A figurative Form III use; the senses center on familiar association or participation.

• Lane · entry 21448

أَذْرَعَ

To exceed due bounds in speech; to talk excessively.

A figurative Form IV use associated with extending the forearm beyond its proper reach.

• Lane · entry 21449

أَذْرَعَ ذِرَاعَيْهِ

To put forth or draw out the forearms from beneath or from the sleeves of a garment.

The expression may refer to extending the arms from a narrow-sleeved garment.

• Lane · entry 21449

أَذْرَعَ

To seize someone with the forearm.

• Lane · entry 21449

أَذْرَعُ

Long or large in the forearm.

Used in an exclamatory or descriptive expression about the length of the forearm.

• Lane · entry 21449

تَذَرَّعَ

To measure a thing with the forearm or cubit.

A Form V construction based on repeated or extended cubit measurement.

• Lane · entry 21450

تَذَرَّعَ الجَرِيدَ

To place palm-sticks along the forearm and pare or prepare them.

The construction is associated with preparing palm-sticks by running them along the arm as a measure or guide.

• Lane · entry 21450

تَذَرَّعَ

To split something into several oblong pieces of approximately cubit length.

A specialized Form V use concerning elongated pieces.

• Lane · entry 21450

تَذَرَّعَتِ المَرْأَةُ الخُوصَ

For a woman to split or pare palm leaves in order to make a mat.

The cited construction concerns preparing palm leaves; the reference to a woman is part of the attested example.

• Lane · entry 21450

تَذَرَّعَتِ الإِبِلُ الكَرَعَ

For camels to wade into rainwater with their forelegs.

A specialized use of the Form V verb with water.

• Lane · entry 21450

تَذَرَّعَ بِذَرِيعَةٍ

To obtain or seek access, intimacy, or ingratiation by means of something.

The construction takes a means or intermediary by which access is sought.

• Lane · entry 21450

اِسْتَذْرَعَ بِهِ

To conceal or protect oneself by means of something and make it a means of access or protection.

The Form X construction presents the thing as a ذريعة, or operative means.

• Lane · entry 21452

ذَرْع

The body.

A separate assumed figurative use of the noun, distinct from capacity and measured extent.

• Lane · entry 21453

ذَرْع

In figurative idioms, freedom from anxieties or grief, breadth of disposition, or the experience of an event as grievous or momentous.

These are idiomatic extensions involving the heart, disposition, or the burden of an event.

• Lane · entry 21453

ذَرَع

Coveting, eagerly desiring, or lusting.

A noun or possible verbal-noun use distinct from measured extent.

• Lane · entry 21454

ذَرِع

One who travels by night and by day.

An assumed figurative epithet.

• Lane · entry 21455

ذَرِع

Long-tongued in evil speech.

An assumed figurative epithet concerning speech.

• Lane · entry 21455

ذَرِع

Good at social or familiar intercourse.

An assumed figurative adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 21455

ذَرَاع

A woman who is light- or active-handed at spinning, or who has ability to spin much.

The cited lexical description explicitly applies the epithet to a woman engaged in spinning.

• Lane · entry 21457

عَلَى حَبْلِ الذِّرَاع

Ready, prepared, or immediately available.

An idiom used of something prepared or ready for delivery or payment.

• Lane · entry 21458

ذِرَاع

An instrument or rod used to measure the length of a cubit.

The measuring implement may be made of wood, iron, or another material.

• Lane · entry 21458

ذِرَاع

A sleeve, especially in a garment expression referring to its arm or sleeve portion.

A figurative or synecdochical use of the arm term; its plural may be مَذَارِع.

• Lane · entry 21458

الذِّرَاع

The two-star asterism called the Lion's Arm and one of the lunar mansions.

The astronomical term has distinct extended and retracted forms in traditional descriptions.

• Lane · entry 21458

ذِرَاع

A particular hot-iron mark made on a camel's forearm.

The term can designate a tribal or family mark placed on the arm.

• Lane · entry 21458

ذِرَاعُ العَامِل

The front part of a spear or spear-shaft.

A specialized object name based on the arm analogy.

• Lane · entry 21458

ذَرِيع

Wide in step, light or active in pace, and quick; of a quadruped, having legs that take much ground.

Applied especially to a horse or camel, and also to quick walking, writing, eating, slaughter, or spreading death.

• Lane · entry 21460

ذَرِيع

Ample in size, scope, affair, or state.

An assumed figurative adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 21460

ذَرِيع

An intercessor.

A figurative adjectival or substantive use.

• Lane · entry 21460

ذَرِيعَة

A she-camel used by a hunter as a screen or decoy while approaching game.

The hunter walks beside the camel, which is first allowed to become familiar to the wild animals.

• Lane · entry 21462

ذَرِيعَة

A means of access, nearness, intimacy, attachment, or connection; a means or intermediary.

The noun is used figuratively for a الوسيلة, سبب, or وصلة by which one reaches another.

• Lane · entry 21462

ذَرِيعَة

A ring or target used for practicing shooting or casting.

The target is aimed at in order to learn the art of shooting or throwing.

• Lane · entry 21462

ذَرَّاع

A person who measures with the cubit.

An occupational or agent noun derived from cubit measurement.

• Lane · entry 21465

ذَرَّاع

A he-camel that drives a she-camel down with his foreleg in order to cover her.

A specialized description of camel mating behavior.

• Lane · entry 21465

ذَارِع

A small skin vessel, especially one stripped from the part next to the arm; also a skin capable of holding much water.

The sources report both a small wine-skin sense and a broader capacity description.

• Lane · entry 21466

ذَارِعَة

An excellent she-camel.

A specialized adjectival use applied to a she-camel.

• Lane · entry 21466

أَذْرَع

Most or more active and light-handed, or very quick; by extension, involving quick slaughter.

The form may describe activity of the hands or general quickness.

• Lane · entry 21467

أَذْرَع

More or most chaste in speech.

A figurative comparative or superlative use concerning verbal expression.

• Lane · entry 21467

أَذْرَع

A person of mixed parentage in which the mother is Arabian and the father is of non-Arab or servile origin.

The sources report variant descriptions of the parentage, with the Arabian-mother description preferred.

• Lane · entry 21467

تَذْرِيع

The redundant part of the cord used to bind a camel's foreleg.

A substantive noun rather than an ordinary verbal noun in this specialized sense.

• Lane · entry 21468

مُذَرَّع

An animal marked on the forelegs or arms by spots, stripes, or blood; in one use, a horse that outstrips prey and bears the associated blood-marking.

Applied in the sources to asses, mules, lions, horses, bulls, and hyenas according to the particular type of marking or blood on the forelegs.

• Lane · entry 21470

مُذَرَّع

A man whose mother is nobler or more distinguished than his father.

A figurative use explained through the marked arms of a mule and the relative nobility of its parentage.

• Lane · entry 21470

مُذَرِّع

Rain that penetrates the earth to the depth of a cubit.

The depth is determined by digging after the rain.

• Lane · entry 21471

مَذَارِع

The forelegs of a beast, or the portions between the knee and armpit.

The plural is explained as limbs by which the beast measures the ground.

• Lane · entry 21472

مَذَارِع

Towns or settlements lying between cultivated land and the desert.

The term is applied to intermediate districts such as al-Qadisiyyah and al-Anbar.

• Lane · entry 21472

مَذَارِع

Parts, regions, quarters, or tracts of a land.

A plural geographic use distinct from the borderland-settlement sense.

• Lane · entry 21472

مَذَارِع

The places where a valley bends.

A specialized geographic use.

• Lane · entry 21472

مَذَارِع النَّخْل

Palm trees situated near houses or tents.

A specialized plural expression for palms close to habitation.

• Lane · entry 21472