Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَرَّةٌ ذ [Necessity, or need;] a subst. from 8: (K, TA:) hardness, distressfulness, or afflictiveness, of state or condition: and annoyance, molestation, harm, or hurt. (Sgh, K.) See also [ضُرٌّ, and] ضَرَرٌ, and ضَرَّآءُ, and ضَرُورَةٌ. -A2- A woman's husband's wife; her fellow-wife: (S, Msb, K:) an appellation disliked by the Muslim; جَارَةٌ being used in preference to it; accord. to a trad.: (TA:) pl. ضَرَائِرُ (Msb, K) and ضَرَّاتٌ; (Msb;) the former extr. [with respect to rule]; (TA;) the latter regular. (Msb.) [See also عَلَّةٌ.] ― -b2- Hence, sing. of ضَرَائِرُ signifying (tropical:) Discordant things or affairs; likened to fellow-wives, who will not agree. (TA.) ― -b3- And [hence also, app.,] الضَّرَّتَانِ is a term applied to (assumed tropical:) The two stones of a mill. (S, M.) -A3- The flesh of the ضَرْع [or udder]: (S:) or the udder (ضرع) altogether, (K, TA,) except the أَطْبَآء [or teats], when containing milk, but not otherwise: (TA:) or the base of the ضرع, which is never, or scarcely ever, without milk in it: (TA:) or the base of the ثَدْى [or breast]: and i. q. خِلْفٌ [q. v.]. (K.) One says ضَرَّةٌ شَكْرَى, meaning A full ضرّة: (S in this art.:) or a ضرّة having much milk. (S in art. شكر.) ― -b2- ضَرَّةُ الإِِبْهَامِ The portion of flesh that is beneath the thumb, which is what corresponds to the أَلْيَه in the hand: (S:) or الضَّرَّةُ signifies the portion of the palm of the hand extending from beneath the little finger to the wrist: (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) or the inner side of the hand, (K, TA,) over against the little finger, corresponding to the الية in the hand: (TA:) or the portion of flesh beneath the thumb: (K:) or the root thereof [i. e. of the thumb]: (TA:) and that part of the flesh of the sole of the foot upon which one treads, next the great toe. (K.) [See أَلْيَةٌ.] ― -b3- The pl. of ضَرَّةٌ (in all the senses expl. above, TA) is ضَرَائِرُ, (K, TA,) which [as said above] is extr. (TA.) ― -b4- And الضَّرَّتَانِ signifies The buttocks, on each side of the bone thereof: (K:) or the two flabby portions of flesh, on each side. (M, TA.) -A4- Also Much property, (S,) or many cattle, (S, * TA,) exclusive of money: (TA:) or property, or cattle, (مال,) upon which one relies [for his maintenance], but belonging to another, or others, (K, TA,) of his relations: (TA:) and a detached number of cattle, of camels, and of sheep or goats. (K, TA.)