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عُرْضٌ ذ A side; a lateral, or an outward, part, or portion; syn. جَانِبٌ, (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) and نَاحِيَةٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) from whatever direction one comes to it, (S, O,) and شِقٌّ: (S, Mgh:) and so ↓ عِرْضٌ ; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ; of anything: (TA:) and ↓ عَارِضٌ , or ↓ عَارِضَةٌ , (accord. to different copies of the K,) or both; (TA;) syn. نَاحِيَةٌ: (K, TA:) and ↓ عَرُوضٌ ; syn. عَارِضَةٌ: (S, A, O, K:) and ↓ عِرَاضٌ ; syn. نَاحِيَةٌ, and شِقٌّ: (S, O, K:) [or] this last is pl. of عَرْضٌ; (Sgh, K;) or, accord. to the M, of عَرْضٌ as signifying the contr. of طُولٌ: and أَعْرَاضٌ is pl. [or is another pl.] of عُرْضٌ; and is also pl. of عِرْضٌ in the sense expl. above. (TA.) You say, عُرْضُ السَّيْفِ The side, or flat, (صَفْح,) of the sword. (K.) And عُرْضُ العُنُقِ The two sides of the neck: (K:) or each side of the neck. (TA.) [See also عَارِضٌ.] And عُرْضَا أَنْفِ البَعِيرِ The beginning of the part of the bone of the camel's nose which slopes downwards, in both its edges. (Az, TA.) And نَظَرَ إِِلَيْهِ بِعُرْضِ وَجْهِهِ He looked at him with the side of his face [turned towards him]. (S, O.) And نَظَرَ إِِلَيْهِ عَنْ عُرْضٍ and ↓ عُرُضٍ He looked at him from one side. (S, O, K. *) And خَرَجُوا يَضْرِبُونَ عَنْ عُرْضٍ (S, O, K *) They went forth smiting the people from one side, in whatever manner suited, (S, O,) not caring whom they smote. (S, O, K.) And اِضْرِبْ بِهِ عُرْضَ الحَائِطِ Strike thou with it indiscriminately any part that thou findest of the wall: (S, O, Msb, TA:) or the side thereof. (TA.) And أَلْقِهِ فِى أَىِّ أَعْرَاضِ الدَّارِ شِئْتَ Throw thou it in any side, or quarter, of the house which thou wilt. (TA.) And خُذْهُ مِنْ عُرْضِ النَّاسِ, and ↓ عَرْضِهِمْ , Take thou him from any side of the people which thou wilt. (TA.) And أَوْصَى أَنْ يُنْفِقَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ عُرْضِ مَالِهِ He enjoined that he should expend upon him, or it, of any part of his property indiscriminately. (Mgh.) And فُلَانٌ مِنْ عُرْضِ العَشِيرَةِ Such a one is of the collateral class of the kinsfolk, or tribe; not of the main stock thereof. (Mgh.) And عَرَضَ عُرْضَهَ, He went towards him: [lit. towards his side.] (K.) See also عَرْضٌ, near the beginning. And مِنَ الطَّرِيقِ ↓ أَخَذَ فِى عَرُوضٍ (S, * K) He took to one side of the way. (S, * TA.) And سِوَى هٰذِهِ ↓ خُذْ فِى عَرُوضٍ Take thou to a side other than this. (A.) And أَخَذَ مَا تُعْجِبُنِى ↓ فُلَانٌ فِى عَرُوضٍ (S, A) Such a one took to a way and side not pleasing to me. (S.) [عَرُوضٌ, it will be observed, is fem.] And سِرْتُ ↓ فِى عِرَاضِهِ I went along over against him. (A.) And القَوْمِ ↓ سِرْنَا فِى عِرَاضِ We went along not facing the people, or company of men, but coming to them from their side. (TA.) And Aboo-Dhueyb says, “ أَمِنْكِ بَرْقٌ أَبِيتُ اللَّيْلَ أَرْقُبُهُ
الشَّامِ مِصْبَاحُ ↓ كَأَنَّهُ فِى عِرَاضِ
” (S, * TA,) i. e. [Is there lightning proceeding from thee, which I pass the night watching, as though it were a lamp] in the side, or region, of Syria? (S.) ― -b2- See also عَرْضٌ, as signifying the “ lowest part, or base, of a mountain; ” and the “ side thereof. ” [And see شَفَقٌ, last sentence but one.] ― -b3- The middle, or midst, of a river or rivulet or the like, (O, K,) and of the sea, (K,) and of men or people, and of a story or tradition; and ↓ عَرْضٌ signifies the same, of men or people, &c.: (TA:) and the former, the main part of men or people; as also ↓ the latter; and of a story or tradition; (K;) as also ↓ عِرَاضٌ , (TA, and so in some copies of the K,) and ↓ عُرَاضٌ . (TA, and so in some copies of the K.) You say, رَأَيْتُهُ فِى عُرْضِ النَّاسِ I saw him among the people: (S, O:) and some of the Arabs say, النَّاسِ ↓ رَأَيْتُهُ فِى عَرْضِ , meaning فِى عُرْضٍ; (Yoo, S, O, TA;) or meaning I saw him in the midst of the people; (TA;) or, as also النَّاسِ ↓ فِى عُرُضِ , in the middle portions of the people; or, as some say, in the surrounding portions of the people. (Msb.) And فُلَانٌ مِنْ عُرْضِ النَّاسِ Such a one is of the common people, or vulgar. (S, K. *) ― -b4- كُلِ الجُبْنَ عُرْضًا [Eat thou cheese indiscriminately; or] take thou cheese at random, or indiscriminately, and buy it of him whom thou findest, not asking respecting him who made it, (As, S, O, K,) whether it be of the making of the people of the Scriptures, or of the making of the Magians. (As, S, O.) -A2- نَاقَةٌ عُرْضُ أَسْفَارٍ: and عُرْضُ هٰذَا البَعِيرِ السَّفَرُ وَالحَجَرُ: see عُرْضَةٌ, last two sentences but one. -A3- أَعْرَاضُ الكَلَامِ: see مِعْرَاضٌ. [But whether اعراض in this phrase be pl. of عُرْضٌ, or whether it have any sing., I know not.] ― -b2- See also عُرُضٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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