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جَرَعَةٌ جرع جرعه جرعة (S, K) and ↓ جَرْعَةٌ (K) and ↓ جَرْعَآءُ (S, K) and ↓ أَجْرَعُ (K) An even piece, (S,) or a round piece, or hill, or hillock, (K,) of sand, that produces no plants, or herbage; (S, K;) and, as some add, that retains no water: (TA:) or a piece, or tract, of sand, good for producing plants, or herbage, in which is no softness, or looseness: (Sgh, L, K:) or land in which is ruggedness, resembling sand: (L, K:) or a hill of which one side consists of sand, and one side of stones: (K:) or what is termed ↓ جرعاء and ↓ اجرع is larger than what is termed جَرَعَةٌ: ↓ جرعاء is also explained as signifying sand of which the middle is elevated, and of which the sides are thin: and, accord. to IAth, ↓ اجرع signifies a wide place, in which is ruggedness: (TA:) or this last, a plain, or soft, place, intermixed with sand: (Ham p. 574:) جَرَعَةٌ is sing., or n. un., of ↓ جَرَعٌ : (S, K: *) or, accord. to some, this last word is a sing., like اجرع; and its pl. [of pauc.] is أَجْرَاعٌ and [of mult.] جِرَاعٌ: the pl. of جَرَعَةٌ is جِرْعَانٌ: and the pl. of ↓ جَرْعَةٌ is جِرَاعٌ: and the pl. of ↓ جِرِعاء is جَرْعَاوَاتٌ: and the pl. of ↓ اجرع is أَجَارِعُ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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