Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَرَّآءُ ذ A hurtful state or condition; (IAth;) contr. of سَرَّآءُ: (IAth, Msb:) or hardship, distress, or straitness of condition [or of the means of subsistence, or of the conveniences of life]; (AHeyth;) i. q. شِدَّةٌ; (S, A, K;) as also بَأْسَآءُ, like which it is a fem. n. without a mase.; and accord. to Fr, أَضُرٌّ and أَبْؤُسٌ may be used as pls. of these two ns.: (S:) or, accord. to Az, (assumed tropical:) that [evil] which relates to the person; as disease: whereas بأسآء is that which relates to property; as poverty: (Bd in ii. 172:) or detriment, or loss, with respect to property and with respect to persons; (A, K;) as also ↓ ضَرَّةٌ , or ↓ ضُرَّةٌ , (accord. to different copies of the K,) and ↓ ضَرَارَةٌ : (K:) and [hence] poverty: and punishment: and drought, or barrenness; or vehement, or intense, drought; (TA: [see also ضَارُورَآءُ:]) and (assumed tropical:) disease of long continuance; or such as cripples, or deprives of the power to move or to stand or to walk; (A, K;) as also ↓ ضَرَرٌ , as used in the Kur iv. 97: or, accord. to Ibn-'Arafeh, the latter there means (assumed tropical:) a hurtful malady that cuts one off from serving in war against unbelievers and the like; as also ↓ ضَرَارَةٌ ; relating to sight, &c. (TA.) -A2- [Also, accord. to Freytag, Tangled trees, in a valley: but the word having this meaning is correctly ضَرَآءٌ, belonging to art. ضرو and ضرى, q. v. And be explains it also as meaning a bare, or an open, place; and the contr. i. e. a place covered with trees; referring to the “ Kitáb el-Addád. ”]