Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ذ

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1 ذَرَأَ ذ , (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. ذَرَاَ , (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. ذَرْءٌ, (S, M, Msb,) He (God) created, syn. خَلَقَ, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) الخَلْقَ [the creation; i. e. the things that are created]. (T, S, M, Msb.) وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِنَ ا@لْجِنِّ وَ ا@لْإِِنْسِ, in the Kur [vii. 178], means [And verily] we have created [for Hell many of the jinn, or genii, and of mankind]. (T.) ― -b2- He multiplied, or made numerous. (K.) يَذْرَؤُكُمْ فِيهِ, in the Kur [xlii. 9], means He multiplieth you thereby; i. e., by making of you, and of the cattle, pairs, males and females: so says Zj; and Fr says the like; and this is a correct explanation. (T.) ― -b3- Also, (S, M, K,) and so ذَرَا, (TA,) He sowed land: (S, M, K, TA:) but the latter verb is said to be the more chaste. (MF.) -A2- ذَرَأَ فُوهُ His teeth fell out from his mouth; (K, TA;) as also ذَرَا and ذَرَى, without ': (TA:) but the most chaste is said to be without ': ذَرَأَ, with ', is said to be of weak authority, or a mispronunciation. (MF.) ― -b2- ذَرِئَ, (M, K,) or ذَرِئَ شَعَرَهُ, (S,) aor. ذَرَاَ , (K,) inf. n. ذَرَأٌ; (S, * M, O;) and ذَرَأَ, (S, K,) aor. ذَرَاَ ; (K;) and ذَرُؤَ, aor. ذَرُاَ ; (Ktr, TA;) His hair became white, or hoary, in the fore part of his head: (S:) or he had whiteness intermixed with blackness in the hair of his head: (M:) or his hair became white, or hoary: (K:) or he began to become white, or hoary, (M, K,) in the fore part of his head, (K,) or in the upper part of each side of the head. (A, TA.) The epithet is ↓ أَذْرَأُ ; fem. ذَرْآءٌ. (S, M, K. [In some copies of the K, ذَرْأَى is erroneously put for ذَرْآءُ.])