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بِرْذَوْنٌ ذ [A horse of mean breed, or of coarse make; a jade: but commonly applied to a hack, or hackney; a horse for ordinary use, and for journeying:] a دَابَّة, (S, K,) not in an absolute sense, but of a particular sort, namely, (MF,) a horse that is not of Arabian breed: (T, MF:) or a heavy, or sluggish, دابّة: (so in a copy of the S:) or a coarse horse: (Towsheeh, TA:) or a horse of coarse make, hardy so as to endure travel upon the mountain-roads and rugged ground, not of Arabian breed, mostly brought from Er-Room [meaning Asia Minor or Greece]: (TA, from the Expos. of the 'Irákeeyeh of Es-Sakháwee:) or a horse of large and coarse make, with thick limbs; whereas those of Arabian breed are light of flesh, lank in the belly, and more slender in the limbs: (El-Bájee, TA:) or a Turkish horse; opposed to Arabian: (Mgh, Msb:) or a pacinghorse; syn. رَهَوَانٌ: (TA voce هِمْلَاجٌ:) fem. with ة; (Ks, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) sometimes; but without ة it is applied to the female as well as the male: (IAmb, Msb:) pl. بَرَاذِينٌ (T, S, Mgh, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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