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ذَرٌّ ذ The young ones [or grubs] of ants: (M, A, Msb, K:) accord. to Th, (M, TA,) one hundred of them weigh one barley-corn: (M, K:) or, accord. to En-Neysábooree, [who perhaps held ذَرٌّ to signify ant's eggs,] seventy of them weigh a gnat's wing, and seventy gnat's wings weigh one grain: (MF:) or the smallest of ants: (S:) or small red ants: (TA:) or it signifies, (TA,) or signifies also, (A,) the motes that are seen in a ray of the sun that enters through an aperture: (A, * TA:) as though they were particles of a thing sprinkled: and in like manner ذَرَّاتُ الذَّهَبِ [minute particles of gold]: (A:) the sing., (S,) or [rather] n. un., (Msb, K,) is ذَرَّةٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) [of which the pl. is ذَرَّاتٌ.] [See an ex., from the Kur x. 62, voce مِثْقَالٌ.] ― -b2- See also ذُرِّيَّةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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