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خَضِرٌ خضر خضرة : see أَخْضَرُ. ― -b2- Also A place having much verdure; and so ↓ يَخْضُورٌ and ↓ مَخْضَرَةٌ . (K.) And أَرْضٌ خَضِرَةٌ and ↓ يَخْضُورٌ Land in which is much verdure: and ↓ ارض مَخْضَرَةٌ , as in the Kur xxii. 62, accord. to one reading, verdant land. (TA.) ― -b3- See also خِضْرٌ, in four places. ― -b4- Also, [as a subst.,] What is green: (Akh, S, and Bd in vi. 99:) seed-produce; (Lth, Bd, K;) and so ↓ خُضَّارَى : (S:) so the former in the Kur ubi suprà: (Lth, Bd:) or goodly green herbage: (A:) and a branch: (K:) any branch. (TA.) ― -b5- And الخَضِرُ The plant called ↓ البَقْلَةُ الخَضْرَآءُ ; as also ↓ الخَضِرَةُ and ↓ الخَضِيرُ (K) and ↓ الخُضْرَةُ : (TA:) it is a green and rough herb or leguminous plant, the leaves and fruit of which are like those of millet; it rises to the height of a cubit; and fills the mouth of the camel. (TA.) Also A species of plant of the kind called جَنْبَة; (K;) which latter term is applied to herbage whereof the root is deep in the earth, like the نَصِىّ and صِلِّيَان: (TA:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: (K:) it is not of the slender and succulent herbs or leguminous plants, which dry up in summer. (TA.) Hence آكِلَةُ الخَضِرِ, occurring in a trad., [properly signifying A she-camel that eats the plant above mentioned,] applied to a man who acts justly and moderately with respect to worldly enjoyments: for the خضر is not of the slender and succulent herbs, as above observed, nor of those excellent plants which the spring produces by its consecutive rains, and which therefore become goodly and soft or tender; but of those upon which beasts pasture after others have dried up, because they find no others, and which the Arabs call جَنْبَة; and the beasts do not eat much of it, nor do they find it wholesome. (IAth, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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