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نُدْأَةٌ ذ and ↓ نَدْأَةٌ Abundance of wealth, or of camels, or sheep &c.: (S, K:) like نُدْهَةٌ and نَدْهَةٌ: (S:) by some explained as consisting of twenty sheep or goats. (MF.) -A2- Also, both words, The rainbow: (S, K:) also called ↓ نَدِىْءٌ . (K.) ― -b2- Also, both words, A redness in the clouds towards the setting or rising of the sun: (K:) or a redness by the side of the sun at its rising or setting: (TA:) or, by the side of the place of its rising or setting: (T:) also called ↓ نَدِىْءٌ . (K.) ― -b3- Also, both words, A halo, or circle, round the sun or moon. (K.) ― -b4- Also, the former word, نُدْأَةٌ, (tropical:) A streak in flesh-meat, differing in colour from the rest: (K:) such a streak in the flesh of a slaughtered camel: (T:) and, in the dual, two streaks inside the two thighs, having over them a thin, white, sinewy substance, resembling a spider's web, divided, one from the other, by a single muscle, and thus appearing like two muscles: asserted by more than one to be tropical. (TA.) ― -b5- What is above the navel, in a horse. (K.) -A3- A woollen thing, (TA,) also called دُرْجَة, which is stuffed into the tuel of a she-camel, [and into her vulva, as explained voce دُرْجَة,] and which is afterwards taken out when she has taken a liking for another camel's colt, (K,) or for the stuffed skin of a camel's colt prepared for her. (IAar.) [See دُرْجَة for a more full explanation.] -A4- One of several parts or portions of scattered herbage: (like نُفْأَةٌ: (TA:) also called ↓ نُدَأَةٌ : pl. نُدَأٌ. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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