ضرع

ضَرَعَ

Of a lamb or kid, to take its mother's udder with the mouth.

A concrete use associated with the udder.

• Lane · entry 17737

ضَرَعَ / ضَرِعَ

To be or become lowly, humble, submissive, abject, or abased; also to humble oneself and petition for a gift.

The forms may be used with إِلَى or لِـ for the person toward whom the submission or petition is directed.

• Lane · entry 17737

ضَرُعَ / ضَرِعٌ

To be or become weak; to be small, young, lean, spare, or light of flesh.

The adjectives can describe a person, a young colt, or anything small or weak; the lexical evidence does not restrict the meaning to one object class.

• Lane · entry 17737
• Lane · entry 17744

ضَرَعَ بِهِ

To humble or overcome someone.

The construction with بِـ is used of an agent, such as a horse, that brings about the other's abasement or defeat.

• Lane · entry 17737

ضَرَعَ مِنْهُ

To approach or draw near to someone or something.

Attested as an expression used of a predatory animal approaching its object.

• Lane · entry 17737

تَضْرِيعٌ / ضَرَّعَ

To draw near little by little, moving deceptively or sinuously from side to side.

This is a conventional derived-form use of gradual, guileful approach.

• Lane · entry 17738

ضَرَّعَتِ الشَّمْسُ

Of the sun, to approach its setting or set.

A specialized temporal use of nearing completion or disappearance.

• Lane · entry 17738

ضَرَّعَتِ القِدْرُ

Of a cooking pot, to approach the time when its contents are cooked.

The expression concerns nearing the required stage of cooking, not necessarily having completed it.

• Lane · entry 17738

ضَرَّعَ الرُّبُّ

Of expressed juice or inspissated juice, to become nearly mature or cooked without the cooking being complete.

A specialized use for an incompletely finished preparation.

• Lane · entry 17738

مُضَارَعَةٌ

Resemblance, likeness, sharing in a quality, or congeniality between two things.

The term can describe similarity or a sharing of kind; its association with the udder is given as an etymological explanation in the lexical discussion.

• Lane · entry 17739

مُضَارَعَةٌ

Approach or approximation.

This is a separate conventional use of the noun alongside its meaning of resemblance.

• Lane · entry 17739

أَضْرَعَتْ

Of a ewe, she-goat, camel, or cow, to develop a prominent udder and have milk descend into it near parturition.

The use describes the period shortly before giving birth and may also indicate that the animal shows signs of pregnancy.

• Lane · entry 17740

أَضْرَعَ لَهُ مَالَهُ

To give someone one's property liberally, freely, or without stint.

A figurative extension of making one's resources available.

• Lane · entry 17740

أَضْرَعَهُ

To lower, humble, or abase someone.

The causative use may describe poverty, fever, or another circumstance bringing about abasement.

• Lane · entry 17740

أَضْرَعَهُ إِلَيْهِ

To constrain someone to have recourse to another person or thing.

The construction expresses compelled resort or dependence.

• Lane · entry 17740

أَضْرَعَهُ الحُبُّ

For love to make someone lean or emaciated.

A causative figurative use describing physical wasting attributed to love.

• Lane · entry 17740

تَضَرَّعَ

To writhe and call or ask for aid or succour.

This is a broader Classical use distinct from the Quranic descriptions of humble supplication.

• Lane · entry 17741

تَضَرَّعَ

Of shade, to contract, shrink, diminish, or go away.

A figurative use applied to the changing extent or disappearance of shade.

• Lane · entry 17741

ضَرْعٌ

The udder, or sometimes the teat, of a female animal; its plural is ضُرُوعٌ.

The term is principally used of cloven-hoofed livestock and may be contrasted with a woman's breast or with the camel's خِلْفٌ in particular usage.

• Lane · entry 17742

زَرْعٌ وَلَا ضَرْعٌ

In an idiom, to have neither seed-produce nor an udder, hence to have nothing.

The expression may also mean having neither land to sow nor a milk-bearing animal.

• Lane · entry 17742

ضِرْعٌ

A like or similar person or thing.

This vocalized noun is distinct from ضَرْعٌ ‘udder’.

• Lane · entry 17743

ضِرْعٌ

A sort or species, or the state, condition, or manner of being of a thing.

A classificatory or descriptive nominal use.

• Lane · entry 17743

ضِرْعٌ

A strand of a rope.

The plural is also reported as ضُرُوعٌ.

• Lane · entry 17743

ضُرَعَةٌ

In an idiomatic expression, a reviler of people who becomes like them and equal to them.

This is a reported conventional expression rather than the ordinary adjective of humility.

• Lane · entry 17747

ضُرُوعٌ

A species of grape, white and large-berried, with little juice and large bunches.

The term is a lexicalized plant-name use and not merely the plural of ضَرْعٌ.

• Lane · entry 17749

ضَرِيعٌ / ضَرِيعَةٌ

Of a ewe, she-goat, camel, or woman, having a large or prominent udder or breasts.

The exact feminine and animal applications vary among lexical authorities, but the common meaning is pronounced size of the breast or udder.

• Lane · entry 17750

ضَرِيعٌ

Dry herbage, the dry part of a tree, or a plant identified in some accounts as a foul or sea-cast growth.

This broader plant use includes descriptions beyond the specifically Quranic interpretation of the word.

• Lane · entry 17750

ضَرِيعٌ

Wine, especially thin wine or a thin beverage.

A specialized beverage meaning unrelated to the Quranic plant sense.

• Lane · entry 17750

ضَرِيعٌ

The skin or integument lying upon the bone beneath the flesh of the rib.

An anatomical use reported for this headword.

• Lane · entry 17750

ضَوَارِعُ

Of stars, inclining toward their setting or the places of setting.

A figurative application of inclination or decline, with ضَارِعٌ as the related adjective.

• Lane · entry 17751

مُضَرِّعٌ

Of a preparation of dried curd, thickened or coagulated and almost thoroughly cooked.

A rare specialized food-preparation use.

• Lane · entry 17754