Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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4 اضرّهُ ذ and اضرّبِهِ : see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- اضرّهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ He compelled him against his will to do the thing. (Sgh, K.) [See also 8.] -A2- اضرّ, intrans., (tropical:) It (anything) approached so near as to harm, injure, or hurt; (TA;) or so near as to straighten, or incommode. (L.) You say, اضرّ بِهِ, meaning (tropical:) It approached very near to him, so as to annoy him: (TA, from a trad.:) or (tropical:) he drew very near to him: (S, A:) or (tropical:) he clave, or stuck, to him. (A.) And اضرّ بِالطَّرِيق (tropical:) He approached the road, but was not upon it. (TA.) And بَنُو فُلَانٍ يُضِرُّ الطَّرِيقُ (tropical:) The sons of such a one are one the travelled track. (A.) And اضرّ السَّيْلُ مِنَ الحَائِطِ (assumed tropical:) The torrent drew near to the wall: and السَّحَابُ إِِلَى الأَرْضِ the clouds to the earth. (K.) ― -b2- اضرّ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) He importuned him; plied him; plied him hard; pressed him; pressed him hard; was urgent with him; persecuted him, or harassed him. (A.) ― -b3- اضرّ الفَرَسُ عَلَى فَأْسِ اللِّجَامِ (tropical:) The horse champed the فأس [q. v.] of the bit; (A 'Obeyd, S, A;) and so اضزّ. (S.) ― -b4- اضرّ فُلَانٌ عَلَى السَّيْرِ الشَّدِيدِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one bore patiently hard journeying. (TA.) -A3- Also, (Msb,) inf. n. إِِضْرَارٌ, (S,) He took to himself a wife while having another wife: (As, S, Msb, TA:) [and so, app., ↓ ضارّ : (see ضِرٌّ:)] or he gave [a woman] in marriage to a man having at the time another wife. (TA.) -A4- اضرّ يَعْدُو (S, K, * TA) signifies He hastened (S, K, TA) somewhat in running, accord. to A 'Obeyd; (S, TA;) but Et-Toosee says that this is a mistake, and that it is correctly اصرّ. (TA.)