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عَذْرَآءُ ذ A virgin: (S, O, K:) used as an epithet: you say جَارِيَةٌ عَذْرَآءُ a virgin girl: (TA:) and اِمْرَأَةٌ عَذْرَآءُ, meaning ذَاتُ عَذْرَةٍ: (Msb:) accord. to IAar alone, so called لِضِيقِهَا, from تَعَذَّرَ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ: (TA:) pl. عَذَارَى and عَذَارٍ [with the art. العَذَارِى, and thus written in the S and O and K] (S, O, K, TA) and عَذْرَاوَاتٌ, (S, O, K,) like صَحَارَى [&c.]. (S, O.) ― -b2- [Hence,] العَذْرَآءُ (assumed tropical:) [The sign Virgo;] the sign السُّنْبُلَةُ: or الجَوْزَآءُ [which is an evident mistake]. (K.) ― -b3- And العَذَارَى (assumed tropical:) Certain stars, described above: see عُذْرَةٌ, latter half. ― -b4- And أَصَابِعُ العَذَارَى (assumed tropical:) A sort of grapes, black and long, like acorns; likened to the dyed fingers of virgins. (TA.) ― -b5- And دُرَّةٌ عَذْرَآءُ (tropical:) A pearl not bored. (A, O, K, * TA.) ― -b6- And رَمْلَةٌ عَذْرَآءُ (tropical:) A sand upon which one has not trodden (A, O, K, * TA) nor ridden, because of its height. (TA.) ― -b7- And العَذْرَآءُ (assumed tropical:) A kind of collar by means of which the hands, or arms, are confined together with the neck: (T, O, TA:) or such as is put upon the throat of a man and has not been put upon the neck of any one before: (TA:) or a thing of iron by means of which a man is tortured in order to make him confess an affair, or the like; (K, TA;) as, for instance, for the purpose of extorting property &c.: pl. عَذَارَى. (TA.) [Compare the term “ maiden ” applied to an instrument for beheading.] ― -b8- Also a name of [El-Medeeneh,] the City of the Prophet: (K, TA:) because of its not having been abased. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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