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دَرْءٌ درء and inf. n. of 1 in senses pointed out above. (S, M, &c.) So of that verb said of a torrent. (TA.) [Hence,] جَآئَ السَّيْلُ دَرْءًا and ↓ دُرْءًا The torrent rushed, or poured forth with vehemence, [or came rushing, &c.,] from a place, (M, K,) or from a distant place, (TA,) unknown: (M, K, TA:) or the latter signifies the torrent came from a distant land or tract. (S.) And جَآءَ ↓ الوَادِى دُرْءًا The valley flowed with the rain of another valley: if with its own rain, you say, سَالَ ظَهْرًا: (IAar, M; and the like is said in the TA in the present art. and in art. ظهر:) or سال دُرْءًا means it flowed with other than its own rain; and ظَهْرًا, “ with its own rain. ” (TA in art. ظهر.) Hence ↓ الدُّرْءُ has been metaphorically used by a rájiz to signify (tropical:) The flowing of water from the mouths of camels into their insides. (M.) -A2- A bending; (TA;) a crookedness, or curvity; (S, M, K, TA;) in a cane, or spearshaft, and the like; (M, K;) or in a staff, and anything that is hard to straighten: (T, TA:) pl. دُرُوْءٌ. (M.) One says, أَقَمْتُ دَرْءٌ فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) I rectified the crookedness and opposition, or resistance, of such a one. (S.) And hence, بِئْرٌ ذَاتُ دَرْءٍ A well having a part [of its shaft] projecting, or protuberant. (S, O.) And طَرِيقٌ ذُو دُرُوْءٍ A road having furrows, (M, * K, *) or abrupt, water-worn, ridges, (T, S, M,) and protuberances, and the like. (T.) ― -b2- The extremity, or edge, of a thing; because it repels therewith. (Ham p. 213.) ― -b3- A portion of a mountain that projects, or juts out, from the rest, (M, K, TA, and Ham p. 213 in explanation of the pl.,) unexpectedly: (TA:) pl. as above. (M.) ― -b4- See also 1, last sentence. ― -b5- Also (assumed tropical:) Disobedience, and resistance, and hatred, or dislike, (T, TA,) and crookedness, (T,) and disagreement, on the part of a wife. (T, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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