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خُدَارِىٌّ خدارى خداري (tropical:) A dark night; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ أَخْدَرُ (K) and ↓ مُخْدِرٌ (A) and ↓ خَدِرٌ and ↓ خَدَرٌ and ↓ خَدُرٌ . (K.) (assumed tropical:) A black cloud. (S.) (assumed tropical:) A camel intensely black: (S, K:) fem. with ة. (S. [See also خُدْرِىٌّ.]) (tropical:) Black hair. (A.) And خُدَارِيَّةٌ الشَّعَرِ (tropical:) A black-haired girl. (A.) ― -b2- خُدَارِيَّةٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) An eagle; (S, K;) because of its colour; (S;) i. e. its intense blackness. (IB.) In the following verse, “ كَأَنَّ عُقَابًا خُدَارِيَّةً
تُنَشِّرُ فِى الجَوِّ مِنْهَا جَنَاحَا
” [which may be rendered, As though a black eagle spread in the sky its wing], Th says that the poet may mean, by عُقَابًا, the bird [so called], or a banner, or garments of the kind called أَبْرَاد, which they spread over them. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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