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ارّض أرض أرضى ارض راض رض رضى رضي , (TK,) inf. n. تَأْرِيضٌ , (K,) He depastured the herbage of the earth, or land: and he sought after it: (K:) or, accord. to some, تَأْرِيضٌ denotes this latter signification with respect to a place of alighting, or abiding: (TA:) and you say [also], المَنْزِلَ ↓ تأرّض he sought after, and chose, the place for alighting, or abiding: (M, TA:) and لِلْمَنْزِلِ ↓ تَرَكْتُ الحَىَّ يَتَأَرَّضُونَ I left the tribe seeking after a tract of country in which to alight, or abide. (TA.) -A2- He, or it, rendered heavy; [app. meaning slow, or sluggish; see 5;] syn. ثَقَّلَ . (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b2- He made to tarry; to tarry and wait, or expect; or to be patient, and tarry, and wait, or expect. (Ibn- 'Abbád, K.)

ا=رض ا=رض , inf. n. اـِيْرَاضٌ : see 5. -A2- مَا ا=رَضُ هذَا المَكَانَ How abundant is the herbage ( عُشْب ) of this place! or, as some say, مَا ا=رَضَ هذِهِ الأَرْضَ How level, or soft, and productive, and good, is this land! (Lh, AHn.) -A3- ا=رَضَهُ , (S, K, [in the CK, incorrectly, اَرَضَهُ ,]) inf. n. as above, (S,) He (God) caused him to be affected with زُكَام [or rheum]. (S, K.)

تارّض تارض It (herbage) became in such a state that it might be cut. (S, K.) -A2- He clave, or kept, to the ground, not quitting it: (A:) and ↓ ا=رض , inf. n. اـِيرَاضٌ , he remained upon the ground: and تأرّض بِالمَكَانِ he remained fixed in the place, not quitting it: or he waited, or expected, and stood upon the ground: and, as also بالمكان ↓ استأرض , he remained, and tarried, or tarried in expectation, in the place: or he remained fixed therein: (TA:) and تأرّض alone, he tarried, loitered, stayed, waited, or paused in expectation: (S, TA:) and he was, or became, heavy, slow, or sluggish, inclining, or propending, to the ground; (S, K;) [as also ↓ استأرض , accord. to IB's explanation of its act. part. n.] You say, فُلَانٌ اـِنْ رَأَى مَطْعَمًا تَأَرَّضَ وَاـِنْ أَصَابَ مَطْعَمًا أَعْرَضَ [Such a one, if he see food, cleaves, or keeps, to the ground, not quitting it; and if he obtain food, turns away: or تأرّض may here be rendered agreeably with the explanation next following]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- جَا=ءِ فُلَانٌ يَتَأَرَّضُ لِى (S, K, * TA) Such a one came asking, or petitioning, for a thing that he wanted, to me; syn. يَتَصَدَّى , and يَتَعَرَّضُ ; (S, K, TA;) and تَضَرَّعَ is also a syn. of تَأَرَّضَ , used in this manner. (TA.) -A3- See also 2, in two places.

اـِسْتَاْرَضَ see 5, in two places. ― -b2- استأرض السَّحَابُ The clouds expanded, or spread: or, as some say, became fixed, or stationary. (M, TA.) -A2- See also 1, first signification: -A3- and see 1 again, last signification but one.

الأَرْضُ [The earth;] that whereon are mankind: (TA:) [and earth, as opposed to heaven: and the ground, as meaning the surface of the earth, on which we tread and sit and lie; and the floor: without ال signifying a land, or country: and a piece of land or ground: and land, or soil, or ground, considered in relation to its quality:] it is fem.: (S, A, Msb, K:) and is a coll. gen. n.; (S, A, K;) of which the n. un. should be أَرْضَةٌ , but this they did not say: (S:) or a pl. having no sing.; (A, K;) for أَرْضَةٌ has not been heard: (K:) its pl. is أَرَضَاتٌ , (S, K,) in [some of] the copies of the K أَرْضَاتٌ , (TA,) for they sometimes form the pl. of a word which has not the fem. ة with ا and ت , as in the instance of عُرُسَاتٌ ; (S;) and أَرَضُونَ , [which is more common,] (AZ, AHn, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) with fet-h to the ر , (AZ, AHn, Mgh, Msb,) and with و and ن , though a fem. has not its pl. formed [regularly] with و and ن unless it is of the defective kind, like ثُبَةٌ and ظُبَةٌ , but they have made the و and ن [in this instance] a substitute for the ا and ت which they have elided [from أَرَضَاتٌ ], and have left the fet-hah of the ر as it was; (S;) but they also said أَرْضُونَ , (AZ, AHn, S,) sometimes, making the ر quiescent; (S;) and أُرُوضٌ (AZ, AHn, Msb, K) is sometimes used as a pl., as in the saying مَا أَكْثَرَ أُرُوضَ بَنِى فُلَانٍ [How many are the lands of the sons of such a one!]; (TA;) and another [and very common] pl. is [ أَرَاضٍ , with the article written] الأَرَاضِى , contr. to rule, (S, Msb, K,) as though they had formed a pl. from ا=رُضٌ ; (S;) thus written in all the copies of the S; [accord. to SM; but in one copy of the S, I find كَأَنَّهُمْ جَمَعُوا ااراضًا ; and in another, ارضًا ;] and in one copy [is added], “ thus it is found in his [J's] handwriting; ” but IB says that correctly he should have said أَرْضَى , like أَرْطَى ; for as to ا=رُضٌ , its regular pl. would be أَوَارِضُ ; and [SM says] I have found it observed in a marginal note to the S that the pl. of ا=رُضٌ would be أَا=رِضُ , like as أَكَالِبُ is pl. of أَكْلُبٌ ; and wherefore did he not say that الاراضى is a pl. of an unused sing., like لَيَالٍ and أَهَالٍ , so that it is as though it were pl. of أَرْضَاةٌ , like as لَيَالٍ is pl. of لَيْلَاةٌ ? yet if any one should propose the plea that it may be formed by transposition from أَا=رِضُ , he would not say what is improbable; its measure being in this case أَعَالِفُ ; the word being أَرَاضِيءُ , and the ء being changed into ى : (TA:) accord. to Abu-l-Khattáb, (S,) ا=رَاضٌ is also a pl. of أَرْضٌ , (S, K,) like as ا=هَالٌ is a pl. of أَهْلٌ ; (S;) but IB says that, in the opinion of the critics, the truth with respect to what is related on the authority of Abu-l-Khattáb is, that from أَرْضٌ and أَهْلٌ are formed أَرَاضٍ and أَهَالٍ , as though they were pls. of أَرْضَاةٌ and أَهْلَاةٌ ; like as they said لَيْلَةٌ and لَيَال , as though this were pl. of لَيْلَاةٌ . (TA.) It is said in proverbs, أَجْمَعُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [More comprehensive than the earth]: (TA:) and ا=مَنُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [More trustworthy than the earth, in which treasures are securely buried]: and أَشَدُّ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [Harder than the earth, or ground]: (A, TA:) and أَذَلُّ مِنَ الأَرْضِ [More vile, or more submissive, than the earth, or ground]. (TA.) And you say, مَنْ أَطَاعَنِى كُنْتُ لَهُ أَرْضَا (tropical:) [Whoso obeyeth me, I will be to him as ground whereon one treads]; denoting submissiveness. (A, TA.) And فُلَانٌ اـِنٌ ضُرِبَ فَأَرْضٌ (tropical:) [Such one, if he be beaten, is like ground]; i. e. he cares not for beating. (A, TA.) One says also, لَا أَرْضَ لَكَ [Mayest thou have no land, or country! or thou hast no land, or country]; like as one says, لَا أُمَّ لَكَ . (S, K,) ― -b2- [And hence,] هُوَ ابْنُ أَرْضٍ He is a stranger, (A, K, TA,) of whom neither father nor mother is known. (TA.) ― -b3- اِبْنُ الأَرْضِ [with the art. ال prefixed to the latter word] is A certain plant, (AHn, K,) which comes forth upon the summits of the [hills called] ا=كَام , having a stem ( أَصْل ), but not growing tall, (AHn,) which resembles hair, and is eaten, (AHn, K,) and quickly dries up; (AHn;) a species of بَقْل , as also بِنْتُ الأَرْضِ : (S in art. بنى :) and بَنَاتُ الأَرْضِ plants: (M in art. بسر :) and the places which are concealed from the pastor. (S in that art.) Also The pool that is left by a torrent: (T in art. بنى :) and بَنَاتُ الأَرْضِ pools in which are remains of water: (IAar in TA art. بسر :) and rivulets. (T in art. بنى .) ― -b4- أَرْضٌ is also used to signify (assumed tropical:) A carpet; or anything that is spread: and in this sense, in poetry, it is sometimes made masc. (Msb.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) Anything that is low. (S, K.) And (tropical:) The lower, or lowest, part of the legs of a horse or the like: (S, K:) or the legs of a camel or of a horse or the like: and the part that is next to the ground thereof. (TA.) You say بَعِيرٌ شَدِيدُ الأَرْضِ (tropical:) A camel strong in the legs. (TA.) And فَرَسٌ بَعِيدٌ مَا بَيْمَ أَرْضِهِ وَسَمَايءِهِ (tropical:) A horse that is large and tall. (A, TA.) ― -b6- Also, of a man, (tropical:) The knees and what is beneath, or below, (lit. after,) them. (TA.) ― -b7- And of a sandal, (assumed tropical:) [The lower surface of the sole;] the part that touches the ground. (TA.) -A2- A febrile shivering; a tremor: (S, K:) or vertigo: or it signifies also vertigo arising from a relaxed state, and occasioning a defluxion from the nose and eyes. (TA.) I'Ab is related to have said, on the occasion of an earthquake, أَزُلْزِلَتِ الأَرْضُ أَمْ بِى أَرْضٌ , (S,) i. e. [Hath the earth been made to quake, or is there in me] a tremor? or a vertigo? (TA.) [ أَهْلُ الأَرْضِ signifies A certain class of the jinn, or genii; by whom human beings are believed to be possessed, and affected by an involuntary tremor; whence it seems that this appellation may perhaps be from أَرْضٌ as signifying “ a tremor. ” See مَأْرُوضٌ : and see خَبَلٌ , as explained in the S.] ― -b2- Also Rheum; syn. زُكَامٌ : (S, K:) in this sense masc.; or, accord. to Kr, fem., on the authority of Ibn-Ahmar. (TA.) -A3- See also مَأْرُوضٌ .

أَرَضٌ : see أَرَضَةٌ .

أُرْضَةٌ : see what next follows.

اـِرْضَةٌ أرض أرضى أرضه أرضة ارضه ارضة راض رض رضى رضي of herbage, What suffices the camels, or other pasturing animals, for a year: (IAar, AHn, M:) or abundant herbage or pasture; as also ↓ أُرْضَةٌ and ↓ اـِرَضَةٌ . (K.)

أَرَضَةٌ [The wood-fretter;] a certain insect that eats wood, (S A, Msb, K,) well known; (A, K;) it is a white worm, resembling the ant, appearing in the days of the [season called] رَبِيع : (TA:) there are two kinds: one kind is small, like the large of the ذَرّ [or grubs of ants]; and this is the bane of wood in particular: (AHn, TA:) or this kind is the bane of wood and of other things, and is a white worm with a black head, not having wings, and it penetrates into the earth, and builds for itself a habitation of clay, or soil; and this is said to be that which ate the staff of Solomon [as is related in the Kur xxxiv. 13, where it is called دَابَّةُ الأَرْضِ , as is said in the A]: (TA:) the other kind [is the termite, or white ant; termes fatale of Linn.; called by Forskål (in his Descr. Animalium &c., p. 96,) termes arda, destructor; and this] is like a large common ant, having wings; it is the bane of everything that is of wood, and of plants; except that it does not attack what is moist, or succulent; and it has legs: (AHn, TA:) the pl. is ↓ أَرَضٌ (AHn, Msb, TA) and أَرَضَاتٌ ; (Msb;) or, as some [more properly] say, أَرَضٌ is a quasi-pl. [or coll. gen.] n. (AHn, TA.) It is said in a prov., ا=كَلُ مِنَ الأَرَضَةِ [More consuming than the wood-fretter, or the termite]. (TA.) And in another, أَفْسَدُ مِنَ الأَرَضَةِ [More marring, or injuring, or destructive, than the wood-fretter, or the termite.] (A, TA.)

أَرِضَةٌ : see أَرِيضٌ .

اـِرَضَةٌ أرض أرضى أرضه أرضة ارضه ارضة راض رض رضى رضي : see اـِرْضَةٌ .

أَرُوضٌ : see أَريضٌ .

أَرِيضٌ part. n. of أَرُضَ . ― -b2- You say أَرْضٌ أَرِيضَةٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ أَرِضَةٌ (TA) Land that is thriving, or productive; (S, A, K;) pleasing to the eye; (AA, S, A, K;) and disposed by nature to yield good produce: (A, K, TA:) or fruitful; increasing in plants or herbage: (IAar:) or level, or soft: (ISh:) or that collects moisture, and becomes luxuriant with herbage; that is soft to tread upon, pleasant to sit upon, productive, and good in its herbage or vegetation: (AHn:) it also signifies a wide land; syn. عَرِيضَةٌ : (TA:) and اـِرَاضٌٍ [as pl. of أَرِيضٌ ] is syn. with عِرَاضٌ and وِسَاع ; (AA, K, TA;) as though the ء were a substitute for the ع . (TA.) ― -b3- أَرِيضٌ is also an imitative sequent to عَرِيضٌ ; (S, K;) as in the phrase أَرِيضٌ شَىْءٌ عَرِيضٌ [A very wide thing]: (S:) or it signifies fat, as an epithet: (K:) some use it in this sense without عرِيض , applied to a kid. (S.) And you say, اِمْرَأَةٌ عَرِيضَةٌ أَرِيضَةٌ [A very wide, or wide and fat, woman; or, as seems to be indicated in the TA in art. عرَض , prolific and perfect]; and in like manner, ↓ مُوءْرِضَةٌ . (TA.) You say also رَجُلٌ أَرِيضٌ , (S,) and لِلْخَيْرِ ↓ أَرُوضٌ , (A,) A man lowly, or submissive; (S;) naturally disposed to good, or to do good. (S, A.) And نَفْسٌ وَاسِعٌ أَرِيضٌ : see رَابِطٌ .

هُوَا=رَضُهُمْ بِهِ هوا=رضهم به هوا=رضهم بة He is the most adapted, meet, suited, fitted, or fit, of them, for it; or most worthy of them of it. (K.) And هُوَا=رَضُهُمْ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ ذلِكَ He is the most adapted, &c., or most worthy, of them to do that. (As, S.)

مُوءْرِضَةٌ : see أَرِيضٌ .

مَأْرُوضٌ Wood eaten by the أَرَضَة [or woodfretter, or termite, but generally meaning the former]; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ أَرْضٌ . (TA.) -A2- A person affected with خَبَل [q. v.] from the jinn, or genii, and [what are called] أَهْلُ الأَرْضِ , (S, K,) i. e. (so accord. to the S and TA, but in the K “ and ”) he who moves about his head and body involuntarily. (S, K.) ― -b2- A person affected with زُكَام [or rheum]: (S, K:) accord. to Sgh, [who seems, like J, not to have known أُرِضَ ,] from ا=رَضَهُ ; (Sgh, TA;) whereas by rule, [if from ا=رِضَهُ ,] it should be مُوءْرَضٌ . (TA.)

فَسِيلٌ مُسْتَأْرِضٌ , and وَدِيَّةٌ مُسْتَأْرِضَةٌ , A young palm-tree, and a small young palm-tree, having a root in the ground: such as grows forth from the trunk of the mother-tree is called رَاكِبٌ . (S, K.) ― -b2- مُسْتَأْرِضٌ also signifies Heavy, slow, or sluggish, inclining, or propending, to the ground. (IB.)