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Q. 1 طَرْمَحَ ذ He made his building long; (S, K; in the former in art. طرح;) like طَرَّحَ: (S and K in art. طرح:) or he made it long and high: (A, TA:) accord. to J, the م is augmentative. (TA.) A poet says, describing camels which herbage produced by the نَوْء [here meaning the rain of the auroral setting] of the constellation Leo had filled with fat, “ طَرْمَحَ أَقْطَارَهَا أَحْوَى لِوَالِدَةٍ
صَحْمَآءَ وَالفَحْلُ لِلضِّرْغَامِ يَنْتَسِبُ
” [Dark green herbage, the offspring of a mother (meaning, as is said in the TA, of a cloud) of a yellowish black hue, the stallion (meaning the star or asterism supposed to be the cause of its giving rain) tracing his origin to the lion, extended, or stretched out, their sides]. (S and TA, the former in art. طرح.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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