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أَرِيضٌ ذ part. n. of أَرُضَ. ― -b2- You say أَرْضٌ أَرِيضَةٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ أَرِضَةٌ (TA) Land that is thriving, or productive; (S, A, K;) pleasing to the eye; (AA, S, A, K;) and disposed by nature to yield good produce: (A, K, TA:) or fruitful; increasing in plants or herbage: (IAar:) or level, or soft: (ISh:) or that collects moisture, and becomes luxuriant with herbage; that is soft to tread upon, pleasant to sit upon, productive, and good in its herbage or vegetation: (AHn:) it also signifies a wide land; syn. عَرِيضَةٌ: (TA:) and إِِرَاضٌٍ [as pl. of أَرِيضٌ] is syn. with عِرَاضٌ and وِسَاع; (AA, K, TA;) as though the ' were a substitute for the ع. (TA.) ― -b3- أَرِيضٌ is also an imitative sequent to عَرِيضٌ; (S, K;) as in the phrase أَرِيضٌ شَىْءٌ عَرِيضٌ [A very wide thing]: (S:) or it signifies fat, as an epithet: (K:) some use it in this sense without عرِيض, applied to a kid. (S.) And you say, اِمْرَأَةٌ عَرِيضَةٌ أَرِيضَةٌ [A very wide, or wide and fat, woman; or, as seems to be indicated in the TA in art. عرَض, prolific and perfect]; and in like manner, ↓ مُؤْرِضَةٌ . (TA.) You say also رَجُلٌ أَرِيضٌ, (S,) and لِلْخَيْرِ ↓ أَرُوضٌ , (A,) A man lowly, or submissive; (S;) naturally disposed to good, or to do good. (S, A.) And نَفْسٌ وَاسِعٌ أَرِيضٌ: see رَابِطٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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