Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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1 ضَرَبَهُ ذ , aor. ضَرِبَ , (S, O, K, &c.,) inf. n. ضَرْبٌ, (S, O, &c.,) [He beat, struck, smote, or hit, him, or it;] and ↓ ضرّبهُ [signifies the same in an intensive sense, i. e. he beat, &c., him, or it, much, or violently; or in a frequentative sense, i. e. several, or many, times: or rather ضرّب is used in relation to several, or many, objects, as will be shown in what follows]: (K:) accord. to Er-Rághib, الضَّرْبُ signifies the making a thing to fall upon another thing; and, as some say, the making it to fall with violence, or vehemence. (TA.) You say, ضَرَبَهُ بِهِ [He struck him, or it, with it], i. e. with a sword, (A, Mgh, Msb), &c. (A, Msb.) And تَضْرِبُ فِى حَدِيدٍ بَارِدٍ [Thou beatest upon cold iron]: a prov. [expl. in art. حد]. (Har p. 633.) And ضَرَبْتُ زَيْدًا سَوْطًا, meaning بِسَوْطٍ [i. e. I struck Zeyd with a whip], or ضَرْبَةَ سَوْطٍ [a stroke of a whip]: (M in art. سوط, q. v.:) and ضَرَبَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ [He struck him a hundred strokes of the whip]. (S and K in art. سحل, &c.) And ضَرَبْتُ عُنُقَهُ [I smote his neck, meaning I beheaded him]; and الأَعْنَاقَ ↓ ضَرَّبْتُ [I smote the necks, meaning I struck off the heads]; the teshdeed denoting muchness [of the action] or multiplicity [of the objects]: AZ says that, when the object is one, the Arabs use only the former verb, without teshdeed; but when there is a plurality of objects, either of the verbs; (Msb;) [so that] one says, ضَرَبُوا أَعْنَاقَهُمْ [They smote their necks, or beheaded them], and أَمَرَ الرِّقَابِ ↓ بِتَضْرِيبِ [He gave the order to smite the necks, or to strike off the heads]: (A:) فَضَرْبَ الرِّقَابِ in the Kur xlvii. 4 is originally فَا@ضْرِبُوا الرِّقَابَ ضَرْبًا [meaning Then do ye smite the necks, i. e. strike off the heads]; (Bd;) the inf. n. being here put for its verb. (Jel.) [Respecting the phrase هُوَ ا@لْيَضْرِبُكَ, see 1 in art. جدع.] ― -b2- [Hence a variety of meanings and phrases here following.] ― -b3- ضَرَبَ كَلْبَهُ عَلَى الصَّيْدِ (assumed tropical:) [He beat, or disciplined, or trained, his dog for the purpose of the chase]: whence the phrases ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ جِرْوَتَهُ and ضَرَبَ جِرْوَةَ نَفْسِهِ and ضَرَبْتُ جِرْوَتِى عَنْهُ [expl. voce جِرْوَةٌ]. (Z, and TA in art. جرو.) ― -b4- لَا تُضْرَبُ أَكْبَادُ الإِِبِلِ إِِلَّا ثَلَاثَةِ مَسَاجِدَ (assumed tropical:) Camels shall not be ridden, save to three mosques: [namely, that of Mekkeh, that of El-Medeeneh, and that of El-Aksà at Jerusalem:] a trad. (TA. [See also 4 in art. عمل.]) ― -b5- [ضَرَبَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, lit. He smote with him, or it, the ground; meaning (assumed tropical:) he cast, threw, or flung, him, or it, upon the ground. And ضَرَبَ بِسَلْحِهِ الأَرْضَ (assumed tropical:) He cast forth his excrement, or ordure, upon the ground.] And [hence] ضَرَبَ الأَرْضَ and الغَائِطَ (tropical:) He voided excrement, or ordure; (A, TA;) and so الخَلَآءَ. (TA.) [ضَرَبَ بِنَفْسِهِ الأَرْضَ see expl. in the latter half of this paragraph.] ― -b6- ضَرَبْتُ القَوْسَ بِالمِضْرَبِ I struck the string of the bow with the wooden implement [or mallet] used in separating cotton. (Msb.) ― -b7- ضَرَبَ العُودَ [He struck the chords of the lute; meaning he played upon the lute; and so ضَرَبَ بِالعُودِ]. (S.) ― -b8- ضَرَبَ الوَتِدَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He beat [or knocked or struck] the tent-peg, or stake, so that it became firm in the ground. (Lh, TA.) And [hence] ضَرَبَ الخَيْمَةَ (tropical:) He pitched the tent, by knocking in its pegs with a mallet: (Kull p. 231:) or he set up the tent. (Msb.) ― -b9- ضَرَبَ الدِّرْهَمَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He struck, coined, or minted, the dirhem, or piece of money. (TA.) And ضَرَبَ عَلَى ا@سمِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He struck, coined, or minted, money in his name]. (ISd, TA in art. جوز.) ― -b10- ضَرَبَ عَلَى المَكْتُوبِ (tropical:) He sealed, or stamped, the writing. (A, * TA.) [And ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) He erased it; namely, anything written.] ― -b11- ضَرَبَ الطِّينَ عَلَى الجِدَارِ (assumed tropical:) [He stuck, or applied, the mud upon the wall, as a plaster]. (TA.) ― -b12- Hence, accord. to some, the phrase ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ا@لذِّلَّةُ, in the Kur ii. 58, considered as meaning (assumed tropical:) Vileness was made to cleave to them: or the meaning is, (assumed tropical:) encompassed them, like as the tent encompasses him over whom it is pitched. (Ksh, Bd.) And [in like manner] one says, ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ضَرِيبَةٌ (tropical:) An impost, of the tax called جِزْيَة, &c., was imposed upon them. (A, * Mgh, Msb. *) And ضَرَبَ عَلَى العَبْدِ الأِتَاوَةَ (tropical:) He imposed upon the slave the tax according to a fixed time. (TA. [See ضِريبَةٌ.]) And ضُربَ عَلَيْهِمُ البَعْثُ (assumed tropical:) The being sent to the war was appointed them and imposed upon them as an obligation. (Mgh in art. بعث.) ― -b13- ضَرَبَ الشَّبَكَةَ عَلَى الطَّائِرِ (assumed tropical:) He cast the net over the bird: (Mgh:) and ضُرِبَ الفَخُّ عَلَى الطَّائِرِ (tropical:) [The snare was cast over the bird]. (A, TA.) ― -b14- ضَرَبَ اللَّيْلُ بِأَرُوَاقِهِ (assumed tropical:) [The night cast its folds of darkness;] meaning the night came. (TA.) [And (assumed tropical:) The night became dark, or was dark; as appears from the following verse.] Homeyd says, “ سَرَى مِثْلَ نَبْضِ العِرْقِ وَاللَّيْلُ ضَارِبٌ
بِأرْوَاقِهِ وَالصُّبْحُ قَدْ كَادَ يَسْطَعُ
” (assumed tropical:) [He went on in his night-journey, like the pulsing of the vein, while the night was casting its folds of darkness over the earth, and the dawn had almost risen]. (TA. [See also ضَارِبٌ.]) You say also, ضَرَبَ عَلَيْهِ حِجَابًا (assumed tropical:) [He put, or let down, a veil, or curtain, or covering, over him, or it]. (TA.) And ضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمَا سَدٌّ (assumed tropical:) [A barrier was set between them two]. (A in art. سد.) ضَرَبْنَا عَلَى آذَانِهِمْ [in the Kur xviii. 10] means (tropical:) We prevented their sleeping; (K, TA;) as though by putting a covering over their ears; a metonymical [and elliptical] mode of saying we made them to sleep by preventing any sound from penetrating into their ears, in consequence of which they would have awoke: (Zj, L, TA:) or ضَرَبَ عَلَى آذَانِهِمْ means (assumed tropical:) he poured upon them sleep so that they slept and did not awake: and one says also, ضَرَبْتُ النَّوْمَ عَلَى أُذُنِهِ [meaning (assumed tropical:) I poured sleep upon him by closing his ear]. (Msb.) ― -b15- ضَرَبَتِ, العَقْرَبُ, (A, K, * TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) (tropical:) The scorpion stung. (A, K, * TA.) ― -b16- [ضَرَبَتْهُ الرِّيحُ (assumed tropical:) The wind beat it, or blew upon it; namely, herbage, and water, &c.] And ضَرَبَهُ البَرْدُ (IKtt, K, TA) (assumed tropical:) The cold smote it so as to injure it; namely, herbage; and in like manner one says of the wind: (IKtt, TA:) and ↓ اضربهُ البَرْدُ (A, TA) (tropical:) The cold smote it by its vehemence, so that it dried up; and in like manner one says of the wind: (TA:) and الضَّرِيبُ الأَرْضَ ↓ اضرب (assumed tropical:) The hoar-frost, or rime, fell upon the land, so that its herbage became nipped, or blasted. (AZ, TA. [See also ضَرِبَ.]) And ضُرِبَ بِبَلِيَّةٍ (assumed tropical:) He was smitten with a trial, or an affliction. (L, TA.) ― -b17- طَرِيقُ مَكَّةَ مَا ضَرَبَهَا العَامَ قَطْرَةٌ (tropical:) [The road to Mekkeh, not a drop of rain has fallen upon it this year]. (A, TA.) ― -b18- ضَرَبَ الفَحْلُ النَّاقَةَ, (S, A, * Msb, K, * TA,) aor. ضَرِبَ , (TA,) inf. n. ضِرَابٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ضَرْبٌ also, accord. to Fr, but this latter, though agreeable with analogy, is disallowed by Sb and Akh, (TA,) (tropical:) The stallion leaped the she-camel; (Msb, TA;) i. e. (TA,) compressed (A, K, TA) her. (TA.) ضِرَابُ الجَمَلِ is used elliptically for ثَمَنُ ضِرَابِ الجَمَلِ (tropical:) The hire of the camel's leaping the female: the taking of which, as also the taking of the hire of any stallion for covering, is forbidden in a trad. (TA.) ― -b19- ضَرَبَ الشَّىْءَ بِالشَّىْءِ (tropical:) He mixed the [one] thing with the [other] thing; (A, K;) as also ↓ ضرّبهُ , (K,) inf. n. تَضْرِيبٌ: (TA:) accord. to some, said peculiarly in relation to milk; (MF, TA;) but [SM says,] this I have not found in any lexicon. (TA.) ضَرَبَ اللَّبَنَ فِى السِّقَآءِ means (tropical:) حَقَنَهُ [i. e. He collected the milk in the skin, and poured fresh milk upon that which was curdled, or thick, or upon that which was churned; or he poured the milk into the skin, and kept it therein that its butter might come forth]. (A.) In the L and other lexicons it is said that ضَرَبْتُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِى الشَّرِّ means I caused them to become confused [or I involved them] in evil or mischief. (TA. [And ضرّبت بَيْنَهُمْ has a similar meaning: see 2.]) And ضُربَتِ الشَّاةُ بِلَوْنِ كَذَا means The sheep, or goat, was intermixed with such a colour. (L, TA.) ― -b20- ضَرَبَ الشَّجَرُ بِعُرُوقِهِ فِى الأَرْضِ [The trees struck their roots into the earth]. (A and TA in art. عرق.) ― -b21- [Hence, the saying,] ضَرَبَتْ فِيهِ فُلَانَةُ بِعِرْقٍ ذِى أَشَبٍ i. e. اِلْتِبَاس; (S and TA in the present art., and in like manner, in both, in art. اشب, with the addition of ذِى before اِلْتِبَاسٍ;) (tropical:) [app. meaning Such a woman implanted, or engendered, in him a strain, i. e. a radical, or hereditary, quality, of a dubious kind: or the pronoun in فيه relates to a family, or people; for it is said that] the meaning is, such a woman corrupted their race by her bringing forth among them: or, as some say, عرقت فِيهِمْ عِرْقَ سَوْءٍ [i. e. عَرَّقَتْ, or, accord. to more common usage, أَعْرَقَتْ, i. e., implanted, or engendered, among them, or in them, an evil strain, or radical or hereditary disposition]. (TA. [This saying is also mentioned in the A, as tropical, but is not expl. therein.]) ― -b22- ضَرَبَ بِالقِدَاحِ, (S, Mgh, K,) and ضَرَبَ القِدَاحَ, (A, TA,) (tropical:) He turned about, or shuffled, (أَجَالَ,) the arrows, [in the رِبَابَة (q. v.), in the game called المُيْسِر,] عَلَى الجَزورِ [for the slaughtered camel]. (Mgh. [See حُرْضَةٌ.]) [And (assumed tropical:) He played with the gamingarrows; practised sortilege with arrows, or with the arrows.] You say, ضَرَبْتُ مَعَ القَوْمِ بِسَهْمٍ (assumed tropical:) I practised sortilege with the people, or party, with an arrow; syn. سَاهَمْتُهُمْ. (Msb.) And ضَرَبَ بِالقِدْحَيْنِ (assumed tropical:) He practised sortilege with the two arrows; one of which was inscribed with the sentence “ My Lord hath commanded me, ” and the other with “ My Lord hath forbidden me: ” a person between hope and despair is likened to one practising this mode of sortilege, which was used by the people of the Time of Ignorance when they doubted whether they should undertake an affair or abstain from it. (Har pp. 465 and 553.) One says also, ضَرَبَ فِى الجَزُورِبِسَهْمٍ meaning (assumed tropical:) He obtained a share, or portion, of the slaughtered camel. (Mgh.) And hence the saying of El-Hareeree, وَضَرَبْتُ فِى مَرْعَاهَا بِنَصِيبٍ (assumed tropical:) [And I obtained a share of its pasture]. (Mgh.) And the lawyers say, يَضْرِبُ فِيهِ بِالثُّلُثِ i. e. (assumed tropical:) He shall take thereof somewhat, according to what is due to him, of the third part. (Mgh.) They say also, ضَرَبَ فِى مَالِهِ سَهْمًا i. e. (assumed tropical:) He assigned [a share, or portion, of his property]: and thus is expl. the saying of Aboo-Haneefeh, لَا يَضْرِبُ لِلْمُوصَى لَهُ فِيمَا زَادَ عَلَى الثُّلُثِ (assumed tropical:) He shall not assign, or give, to the legatee, aught of more than the third part; the true objective complement being suppressed. (Mgh.) ― -b23- ضَرَبَ بِيَدَيْهِ [lit. He beat with his arms; meaning (assumed tropical:) he moved his arms about, or to and fro; brandished, tossed, or swung them]: you say, ضَرَبَ بِيَدَيْهِ وَحَرَّكَهُمَا فِى مِشْيَتِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He swung his arms, and moved them about, in his manner of walking]. (TA in art. جدف. [See جَدَفَ.]) And ضَرَبَ فِى المَآءِ [بِيَدَيْهِ being understood after the verb] (assumed tropical:) He swam. (K.) ― -b24- ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ إِِلَى شَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) He made a sign, or pointed, with his hand, towards a thing. (TA.) And ضَرَبَ [alone] (assumed tropical:) He made a sign, or pointed. (K.) And ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ إِِلَى كَذَا (assumed tropical:) He put forth his hand towards such a thing, to take it, or to point, or make a sign. (TA.) And ضَرَبَ يَدَهُ إِِلَى عَمَلِ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [He applied his hand to the doing of such a thing]. (Lth, TA.) [And ضَرَبَ يَدَيْهِ فِى المَالِ a phrase expl. to me by IbrD as meaning (assumed tropical:) He busied his hands with the property, in the giving, or dispensing of it.] ― -b25- ضَرَبَ عَلَى يَدِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He struck his (i. e. another man's) hand; meaning] he struck, or made, the bargain with him; or ratified the sale with him: for it is a custom, when two persons are bargaining together, for one of them to put his hand upon the other's in ratifying the bargain. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b26- And (tropical:) He prohibited, or prevented, or hindered, him, from doing a thing, or from doing a thing that he had begun: (TA:) and [in like manner] ضَرَبَ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ (tropical:) he withheld, or restrained, him, or it. (K, TA.) And (i. e. the former phrase) (tropical:) He (the judge, A, Mgh, TA) prohibited, or interdicted, him from the using, or disposing of, his property according to his own free will. (S, A, Mgh, Msb, TA.) ― -b27- Also (tropical:) He corrupted, vitiated, marred, or disordered, his affair, or case, or state. (A, Msb, TA.) ― -b28- ضَرَبَ عَنْهُ (assumed tropical:) He turned away a person or thing from him [or it]; as also ↓ اضرب : (TA:) [or] عنه ↓ اضرب signifies, (S, Msb,) or signifies also, (TA,) and (Msb, TA) so does ضَرَبَ عنه, (Msb, K, TA,) [the latter app. for ضَرَبَ نَفْسَهُ عَنْهُ,] (assumed tropical:) He turned away from, avoided, shunned, or left, him, or it; (S * Msb, K * TA; *) namely, a person, (TA,) or a thing. (Msb.) أَفَنَضْرِبُ عَنْكُمُ ا@لذِّكْرَ صَفْحًا, in the Kur [xliii. 4], is said to mean (assumed tropical:) Shall we then neglect you, and not teach you what is incumbent on you? the phrase being taken from a rider's striking his beast with his stick when he desires to turn him from the course that he is pursuing: or the meaning is, (assumed tropical:) shall we then turn away the Kur-án from you, and not invite you thereby to the faith, turning away ourselves from you? (TA.) One says also, ضَرَبْتُ عَنْهُ صَفْحًا meaning (assumed tropical:) I turned away from him and left him. (S and TA in art. صفح: see 1 in that art.) See also the saying ضَرَبَ أَخْمَاسَهُ فِى أَسْدَاسِهِ voce خُمُسٌ. ― -b29- And فُلَانٌ يَضْرِبُ أَخْمَاسًا لِأَسْدَاسٍ: see voce خِمْسٌ. ― -b30- ضَرَبَ بِنَفْسِهِ الأَرْضَ, (K,) inf. n. ضَرْبٌ, (TA,) [lit. He smote with himself the ground; and hence, (assumed tropical:) he cast, threw, or flung, himself upon the ground; app. often used in this sense; (a phrase similar to ضَرَبَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ expl. before;) and hence,] (assumed tropical:) he remained, stayed, or abode; (K;) and so ↓ اضرب (AZ, ISk, S, K, TA) as used in the phrase اضرب الرَّجُلُ فِى البَيْتِ (tropical:) The man remained, stayed, or abode, in the tent, or house, (AZ, ISk, S, A, TA,) not quitting it: (ISk, A, TA:) and [in like manner] ضَرَبَ بذَنَبِهِ, [الأَرْضَ being understood,] (assumed tropical:) He stayed, or abode, and remained fixed. (K in art. ذنب. [See also other explanations of this last phrase in a later part of this paragraph.]) And ضَرَبَ الوَتِدَ بِمَحَلِّ كَذَا (tropical:) He remained, stayed, or abode, [lit., struck the tent-peg,] in such a place of alighting. (A.) And ضَرَبَتِ الإِِبِلُ بِعَطَنٍ, [الأَرْضَ being understood after الابل,] (assumed tropical:) The camels lay down [in a place by the water]: (S in art. عطن:) or satisfied themselves with drinking and then lay down around the water or by the watering-troughs, to be brought again to drink another time: (IAth, TA in that art.:) and [hence,] ضَرَبَ النَّاسُ بِعَطَنٍ, occurring in a trad., (assumed tropical:) The people's camels satisfied themselves with drinking until they lay down and remained in their place [at the water]: (TA in the present art.:) or the people satisfied their thirst and then abode at the water. (K in art. عطن.) ― -b31- ضَرَبَ بِذَقَنِهِ الأَرْضَ (tropical:) He was cowardly; and feared; (A, O,* K, TA;) and clave to the ground: (O, TA:) or he was, or became, affected with shame, shyness, or bashfulness. (A, TA.) ― -b32- يَضْرِبُ لَهُ الأَرْضَ كُلَّهَا [lit. He beats for it the whole land, i. e. in journeying,] means (assumed tropical:) he seeks it through the whole land: so says AZ in explanation of the phrase here following. (O, TA.) يَضْرِبُ المَجْدَ (assumed tropical:) He seeks to gain, or obtain, glory: (O, K:) or he applies himself with art and diligence to gain glory, (يَكْتَسِبُهُ,) and seeks it through the whole land. (AZ, TA. [See also 8.]) ― -b34- ضَرَبَ اللَّبِنَ, (A,) or اللِّبْنَ, (tropical:) He made [or moulded] bricks. (MA.) And ضَرَبَ الخَاتَمَ (tropical:) He made, fashioned, or moulded, the signet-ring. (TA.) [Hence one says,] اِضْرِبْهُ عَلَى طَبْعِ هٰذَا i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Make thou it, fashion it, or mould it,] according to the model, make, fashion, or mould, of this. (IAar, O and K in art. طبع.) And هٰذِهِ ضَرِيبَتُهُ الَّتِى ضُرِبَ عَلَيْهَا, and ضُرِبَهَا, and ضُرِبَ alone, [for ضُرِبَ عَلَيْهَا,] meaning طُبِعَ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) This is his nature, with an adaptation, or a disposition, to which he was moulded, or created; or to which he was adapted, or disposed, by creation]. (Lh, TA.) And ضُرِبَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى الكَرَمِ (tropical:) [Such a one was moulded, or created, with an adaptation or a disposition, to generosity; or was adapted, or disposed, by creation, or nature, to generosity]. (A.) ― -b35- ضَرَبَ مَثَلًا (S, A, O, &c.) (tropical:) He rehearsed, propounded, or declared, a parable, a similitude, an example, or a proverb; said of God [and of a man]: (S, * O, * Msb, TA:) or he mentioned, or set forth, a parable, &c.: or he framed a parable: thus expl., the verb has but one objective complement: or the phrase signifies he made [such a thing] an example, or the subject of a parable or similitude &c.; and so has two objective complements: in the saying in the Kur [xxxvi. 12] وَا@ضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلًا أَصْحَابَ ا@لْقَرْيَةِ (assumed tropical:) [And propound thou to them a parable, the people of the town] i. e., the story of the people of the town, [or make thou to them a parable, or similitude, or an example, the people of the town;] مثلا may be in the accus. case as an objective complement, اضحاب القرية being a substitute for مثلا; or اصحاب القرية may be regarded as a second objective complement [i. e. second in the order of the words, but first in the order of the sense]: the phrase is differently expl. on account of the different meanings of the verb ضَرَبَ; which signifies he described, or rehearsed; and he declared, propounded, or explained; and he made, caused to be, or constituted; &c.; accord. to some, it is taken from the phrase ضَرَبَ الدِرْهَمَ [q. v.]; because of the impression which a parable or the like makes upon the mind: accord. to some, from ضَرِيبٌ signifying “ a like; ” because the first thing is made like the second: accord. to some, from ضَرَبَ الطِّينَ عَلَى الجِدَارِ [q. v.; because the mud, applied as a plaster, conforms to the shape of the wall]: and accord. to some, from ضَرَبَ الخَاتَمَ [q. v.]; because of the correspondence between a parable or the like and the object to which it is applied, and the correspondence between the signet and its impression. (TA, from the M and L &c.) يَضْرِبُ ا@للّٰهُ ا@لْحَقَّ وَا@لْباطِلَ, in the Kur [xiii. 18], means (assumed tropical:) God likeneth, or compareth, truth and falsity. (TA.) One says also, ضَرَبَ بِهِ مَثَلًا (assumed tropical:) [He made him, or it, a subject of a parable, a similitude, an example, or a proverb; he propounded, or framed, a parable, &c., respecting him, or it]. (TA.) And يُضْرَبُ المَثَلُ لِكَذَا [The proverb, &c., is applied to, in relation to, or to the case of, such a thing]. (Meyd &c., passim.) ― -b36- ضَرَبَ لَهُ أَجَلًا (assumed tropical:) He specified, or notified, to, or for, him, or it, a term, or period. (Mgh, Msb. *) ― -b37- ضَرَبَ لَهُمْ طَرِيقًا (assumed tropical:) He assigned to them, or made for them, a way; syn. جَعَلَ. (MA. [App. from a phrase in the Kur xx. 79, q. v.]) ― -b38- الضَّرْبُ as a conventional term of the accountants, or arithmeticians, means The multiplying a number by another number; (Mgh, Msb;) as when you say, [ضَرَبَ خَمْسةً فِى سِتَّةٍ He multiplied five by six; and] خَمْسَةٌ فِى سِتَّةٍ بِثَلَاثِينَ [Five multiplied by six is thirty]. (Msb.) ― -b39- ضَرَبَ [is often intrans., and thus] signifies also تَحَرَّكَ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, in a state of commotion, &c.]: (K:) [see also 8, which is more commonly used in this sense:] or, so with strength, or force. (TA.) [And hence several phrases here following.] ― -b40- ضَرَبَ العِرْقُ (A, TA,) inf. n. ضَرْبٌ and ضَرَبَانٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) The vein pulsed, or beat, (A, TA,) and throbbed: (TA:) and ضَرَبَ, inf. n. ضَرَبَانٌ, (tropical:) it (the vein) pained, and was, or became, in a state of strong commotion. (TA.) And ضَرَبَ الجُرْحُ, inf. n. ضَرَبَانٌ, (S, A, Msb,) (tropical:) The wound [throbbed; or] pained violently: (A, Msb:) and so الضِرْسُ (tropical:) [the tooth]. (A, TA.) ― -b41- ضَرَبَتِ النَّاقَةُ, (A, K,) or, as in some lexicons, المَخَاضُ, (TA,) (tropical:) The she-camel, (A, K,) or the pregnant camel, (TA,) raised her tail, and smote her vulva with it, (A, K, TA,) and then went along. (K, TA.) ― -b42- ضَرَبَ فِى جَهَازِهِ (tropical:) He (a camel) took fright, and ran away at random, (S, A, L, TA,) and ceased not to gallop and leap until he had thrown off all his furniture, or load. (L, TA.) ― -b43- جَآءَ يَضْرِبُ بِشَرٍّ (tropical:) He came hastening [with mischief, or] in an evil affair. (A.) It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, When such and such things shall happen, (mentioning faction, or sedition, or the like,) ضَرَبَ يَعْسُوبُ الدِّينِ بِذَنَبِهِ, meaning, accord. to AM, (assumed tropical:) The leader of the religion shall hasten to go away through the land, fleeing from the faction, or sedition: or, as some say, shall go away hastily through the land, with his followers. (O, TA. [But see يَعْسُوبٌ: and see also ذَنَبٌ.]) And you say also, ضَرَبْتُ فِىالسَّيْرِ, (Msb,) inf. n. ضَرْبٌ, (S,) (assumed tropical:) I hastened in journeying. (S, * Msb.) And ضَرَبَ فِى الأَرْضِ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ضَرِبَ , (TA,) inf. n. ضَرْبٌ (S, K, TA) and مَضْرَبٌ (S, TA) and ضَرَبَانٌ, (K, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He journeyed in the land (S, Mgh, Msb) seeking sustenance, (S,) and for the purpose of traffic: (Mgh:) [and ضَرَبَ الأَرْضَ, as shown above, has a similar meaning:] or (tropical:) he went forth in the land as a merchant; (A, K;) or warring and plundering, (K,) or so ضَرَبَ فِى سَبِيلِ ا@للّٰهِ [meaning in the cause of God]: (A:) or he hastened through the land: (A, K:) or he arose, and hastened in his journey through the land: (TA:) or he went, or went away, in the land: (A, K:) or he traversed, or journeyed through, the land. (TA.) The verb is [similarly] used in relation to almost all employments: you say, ضَرَبَ فِى التِّجَارَةِ (assumed tropical:) [He travelled for the purpose of traffic]: (TA:) and إِِنَّ لِىفِى أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ لَمَضْرَبًا i. e. ضَرْبًا [Verily I have to make a journey for the sake of, or on account of, a thousand dirhems]. (S, TA: but in my copies of the S, لى is omitted.) And ضَرَبَتِ الطَّيْرُ, aor. as above, (tropical:) The birds went, or went away, [or migrated,] seeking sustenance. (K, TA.) ― -b44- ضَرَبَ said of time, (assumed tropical:) It went, passed, or passed away. (K.) And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ مِنْ ضَرَبَانِهِ, or, accord. to one reading, مِنْ ضَرْبِهِ, occurring in a trad., (tropical:) The time in part passed; [the time pursued a part of its course;] or a part of the time passed. (TA.) And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ ضَرَبَانَهُ (assumed tropical:) Fortune, or time, produced, or brought to pass, its events: (IKtt, TA:) a phrase like قُضِىَ مِنَ القَضَآءِ. (S, L, TA.) And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ مِنْ ضَرَبَانِهِ أَنْ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا (tropical:) [Fortune, or time, brought to pass, among its events, that such and such things happened]. (A, L, TA.) And ضَرَبَ الدَّهْرُ بَيْنَنَا (tropical:) Fortune, or time, separated us: (AO, A, TA:) or made a wide separation between us; syn. بَعَّدَ. (K.) ― -b45- Also (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, long: (K, TA:) so in the saying, ضَرَبَ اللَّيْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ (assumed tropical:) [The night was, or became, long to them]. (TA.) ― -b46- And ضَرَبَ إِِلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) It inclined to it. (TA.) [One says, يَضْرِبُ إِِلَى السَّوَادِ (assumed tropical:) It inclines to blackness, and إِِلَى الحُمْرَةِ to redness, &c.: often occurring in the lexicons.] -A2- ضَارَبَهُ فَضَرَبَهُ, aor. of the latter ضَرُبَ : see 3. -A3- ضَرُبَتْ يَدُهُ i. q. جَادَ ضَرْبُهَا [meaning Excellent, or how excellent, is his hand, or arm, in beating, striking, smiting, or hitting! a phrase similar to رَمُوتْ يَدُهُ]. (K.) -A4- ضَرِبَ, (IKtt, A, K,) aor. ضَرَبَ , (K,) inf. n. ضَرَبٌ, said of herbage, (tropical:) It was marred, or spoilt, by the cold: (A:) or it was smitten by the cold, (IKtt, K, TA,) and injured thereby, and by the wind. (IKtt, TA.) And ضَرِبَتِ الأَرْضُ, inf. n. ضَرَبٌ, (assumed tropical:) The land was smitten by hoar-frost, or rime, and its herbage was nipped, or blasted, thereby: (AZ, TA:) and ضُرِبَت [in like manner] (tropical:) it (i. e. land) was smitten by hoar-frost, or rime; or had hoar-frost, or rime, fallen upon it. (S, A, TA.)