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8 اختضر اختضر He cut herbage, (S, K,) or a tree, (A,) while it was green; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ خَضَرَ , (A, TA,) aor. خَضُرَ , inf. n. خَضْرٌ. (TA.) And اُخْتُضِرَ It (herbage, TA) was taken, (K,) and pastured upon, (TA,) while fresh and juicy, (K,) and green, before it had attained its full height. (TA.) See also 9, last sentence. ― -b2- Hence, (S, TA,) the pass. form, (assumed tropical:) He died in his youth; (S, K;) in his fresh and flourishing state. (S.) Young men used to say to an old man, أَجْزَرْتُ يَا شَيْخُ (assumed tropical:) [Thou hast attained to the time for dying, (lit. for being cut,) O old man]: and he replied, أَىْ بَنِىَّ وَتُخْتَضَرُونَ (assumed tropical:) [O my sons, and ye shall be cut off, or die, in your youth]. (S. [See also أَجْزَرَ.]) ― -b3- Also, the act. v., He cut off the green branches of a palm-tree with his مِخْلَب; (TA;) and so ↓ خَضَرَ , (K, * TA,) aor. خَضُرَ , inf. n. خَضْرٌ: (TA:) and he cut off a thing, as a man's nose, entirely: (TA:) or, simply, he cut off a man's nose. (IAar.) ― -b4- And He ate fruit [while it was green, or] before it was ripe. (A.) ― -b5- And hence, (TA,) (tropical:) He deflowered a girl: (K, TA:) or, before she had attained to puberty; (Msb in art. قض, and K;) as also اِبْتَسَرَ and اِبْتَكَرَ. (TA.) ― -b6- Also (assumed tropical:) He took a camel in a refractory state, not trained, and attached the nose-rein to him, and drove him. (TA.) ― -b7- And (assumed tropical:) He took up a load, or burden. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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