Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

ذَرَّ, (T, Ṣ, M, A, &c.,) aor. ـُ {يَذْرُرُ}, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb,) inf. n. ذَرٌّ, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ, &c.,) He sprinkled, or scattered, salt (T,* Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) upon flesh-meat, and pepper upon a mess of crumbled bread with broth, (A,) and a medicament (Ṣ, A) into the eye, (A,) and grain (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) upon the ground, (A,), &c.; (T, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoذَرْذَرَ↓, inf. n. ذَرْذَرَةٌ: (Ḳ:) he took a thing with the ends of his fingers and sprinkled it upon a thing. (M.) You say, ذَرَّ عَيْنَهُ, (TA,) and ذَرَّ عَيْنَهُ بِالذَّرُورِ,, aor. ـُ {يَذْرُرُ}, (M, TA,) inf. n. ذَرٌّ, (Ḳ, TA,) He put the medicament called ذَرُور into his eye. (M,* Ḳ,* TA.)

Also, (A,) inf. n. as above, (Ḳ,) He spread. (A, Ḳ.) You say, ذَرَّ ٱللّٰهُ عِبَادَهُ فِى الأَرْضِ ‡ God spread his servants, or mankind, upon the earth. (M,* A.) Whence the word ذُرِّيَّةٌ. (M, TA.)

And ذَرَّتِ الأَرْضُ النَّبْتَ The ground put forth the plant, or plants. (Ḳ.)

ذَرَّ, (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ, &c.,) aor. ـُ {يَذْرُرُ}, [contr. to analogy,] (T, M,) inf. n. ذُرُورٌ, (M,) It (a herb, or leguminous plant,) came up, or forth, (IAạr, AZ, T, Ṣ, Ḳ,) from the ground: (AZ, Ṣ:) or it (a herb, or leguminous plant, and a horn,) began to come forth; put forth the smallest portion of itself. (A.)

ذَرَّتِ الشَّمْسُ, (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) aor. ذُرُورٌ, inf. n. ذُرُورٌ, (Ṣ, M,) ‡ The sun rose; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) and appeared: (M:) or began to rise: شُرُوقُهَا is when its light first falls upon the earth and trees: (T, TA:) and ذَرَّ قَرْنُ الشَّمْس, aor. and inf. n. as above, † The upper limb of the sun rose: (Mṣb:) or began to rise. (A, TA.)

ذَرَّ is also syn. with تَخَدَّدَ [app. as meaning His flesh became contracted, shrunk, or wrinkled]. (Ḳ.)

Also, (T, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَذْرَرُ}, contr. to analogy, (Ḳ,) unless ذَرَّ be for ذَرِرَ, (MF,) said of a man, The fore part of his head became white, or hoary. (T, Ḳ.)

ذَارَّتْ, (aor. تُذَارُّ, Ṣ,) inf. n. مُذَارَّةٌ and ذِرَارٌ, She (a camel) became evil in her disposition. (Fr, Ṣ, Ḳ.) Hence the saying of Hoteiäh, satirizing Ez-Zibrikán, and praising the family of Shemmás Ibn-Láy,

* وَكُنْتَ كَذَاتِ البَوِّ ذَارَتْ بِأَنْفِهَا *

* فَمِنْ ذَاكَ تَبْغِى بُعْدَهُ وَتُهَاجِرُهْ *

i. e. [And thou wast like her who has a stuffed skin of a young camel made for her and placed near her that she may incline to it and yield her milk,] that has inclined to the young one of another; [and on that account desires its distance from her, and severs herself from it:] in the Ṣ we find, for البَوِّ, البَعْلِ; and for بُعْدَهُ, غَيْرَهُ; but the former are the correct readings: ذَارَتْ is a contraction of ذَارَّتْ: or, accord. to some, it is for ذَآءَرَتْ: see art. ذأر. (IB and TA.)

One says also, فِى فُلَانٍ ذِرَارٌ, meaning † In such a one is aversion, arising from anger, like that of a she-camel: (AZ, Ṣ:) or anger and aversion (Th, M, Ḳ, TA) and disapprobation. (Th, TA)

ذَرٌّ The young ones [or grubs] of ants: (M, A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) accord. to Th, (M, TA,) one hundred of them weigh one barley-corn: (M, Ḳ:) or, accord. to En-Neysábooree, [who perhaps held ذَرٌّ to signify ant's eggs,] seventy of them weigh a gnat's wing, and seventy gnat's wings weigh one grain: (MF:) or the smallest of ants: (Ṣ:) or small red ants: (TA:) or it signifies, (TA,) or signifies also, (A,) the motes that are seen in a ray of the sun that enters through an aperture: (A,* TA:) as though they were particles of a thing sprinkled: and in like manner ذَرَّاتُ الذَّهَبِ [minute particles of gold]: (A:) the sing., (Ṣ,) or [rather] n. un., (Mṣb, Ḳ,) is ذَرَّةٌ, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) [of which the pl. is ذَرَّاتٌ.] [See an ex., from the Ḳur x. 62, voce مِثْقَالٌ.]

See also ذُرِّيَّةٌ.

ذَرُورٌ A thing sprinkled: (M:) a dry medicament, (T, TA,) such as is sprinkled in the eye, (T, A, Ḳ,) and upon a wound, or sore: (T, TA:) or a kind of إِثْمِد [q. v.]. (Ḥar p. 86.)

See also ذَرِيرَةٌ.

ذُرَارَةٌ What falls about, (M, A, Ḳ,) of perfume, when one sprinkles it, (A,) or of ذَرُور, (Ḳ, TA,) or of what is sprinkled. (M, and so accord. to the CK.)

ذَرِيرَةٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) andذَرُورٌ↓ (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) A kind of perfume, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) the particles of the قَصَبُ الطِّيبِ [or calamus aromaticus, also called قَصَبُ الذَّرِيرَةِ, q. v., in art. قصب], (T, M, A, Mṣb,) which is brought from India, (A, Mṣb,) and resembles the reeds of which arrows are made: (T, A, Mṣb:) its internodal portions are filled with a white substance like spiders' webs; and when powdered, it is a perfume, inclining to yellowness and whiteness: (Ṣgh, Mṣb:) or, as some say, it is a mixed kind of perfume: (TA:) [but this, if correct, seems to be a second application:] pl. of the latter, أَذِرَّةٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

ذَرِّىٌّ a rel. n. from ذَرٌّ, (T,) ‡ The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, of a sword: (T, M, A, Ḳ:) likened to the track of young ants. (M, A.) It occurs in poetry, in which some read دُرِّىٌّ [q. v.]. (M.)

And † A sword having much of such wavy marks,, &c. (Ḳ.)

ذُرِّيَّةٌ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) the most chaste form, (Mṣb,) and ذِرِّيَّةٌ, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) and ذَرِيَّةٌ, this last without a sheddeh to the ر (Mṣb,) [respecting the derivation of which see art. ذرأ,] † Children, or offspring, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) as alsoذَرٌّ↓, (Mṣb,) of a man, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [and of genii: see art. ذرأ,] male or female: (IAth:) little ones, or young ones. (Mgh, Mṣb.)

Also ‡ Progenitors, or ancestors. (Mṣb, MF.)

Also † Women. (Mgh, Ḳ.)

Used in a sing. as well as a pl. sense. (Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Pl. ذُرِّيَّاتٌ and (sometimes, Mṣb) ذَرَارِىُّ. (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ.) [In the CK, the latter pl., with the article, is written الذَّرَارِى, without a sheddeh to the ى.]

[For examples, see art. ذرأ.]

مِذَرَّةٌ An instrument with which grain is scattered. (Ḳ.)

مُذَارٌّ A she-camel evil in disposition. (Fr, Ṣ, Ḳ.) [See 3.]