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تَرَّاعٌ أراع راعى تراع A torrent filling the valley; as also ↓ أَتْرَعُ : (K:) or a torrent which fills the valley: (S:) and ↓ the latter, a vehement torrent. (TA.) J says, in the S, that ↓ سَيْرٌ أَنْزَعُ signifies شَدِيدٌ; and he cites the words of a poet thus: “ فَا@فْتَرَشَ الأَرْضَ بِسَيْرٍ أَتْرَعَا
” ascribed by some to El-'Ajjáj, but correctly, accord. to IB, the words of Ru-beh; making two mistakes, in saying افترش, in the sing., and بسير: moreover, the last word in the citation is a pret. verb: [the right reading is] “ فَا@فْتَرَشُوا الأَرْضَ بِسَيْلٍ أَتْرَعَا
” [And they travelled the land with a multitude like a torrent that filled the valleys]: the poet describes the Benoo-Temeem, and their travelling the land like the torrent by reason of multitude. (Sgh, TA.) -A2- (assumed tropical:) A door-keeper. (Th, S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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