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4 اردّت ذ She (a sheep or goat or other animal) secreted milk in her udder a little before her bringing forth; syn. أَضْرَعَتْ: (S:) [or,] said of a camel, her udder became shining, and infused with milk. (M, L.) And She (a camel) had her udder and vulva inflated, or swollen, in consequence of her lying upon moist ground: or had her vulva swollen in consequence of lust for the stallion: or had her أَرْفَاغ [or groins, or inguinal creases, or the like], or her udder, and her vulva, swollen in consequence of drinking much water. (M, L.) [See also مُردٌّ.] ― -b2- And اردّ [said of a man, app. from the verb as explained in the first sentence of this paragraph, His seminal fluid returned into his back, or he secreted much seminal fluid, in consequence of his having been long without a wife, or absent from his home: see مُرِدٌّ: and see also 6. And hence, (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, very libidinous: see, again, مُرِدٌّ. And] (assumed tropical:) He (a man) was, or became, swollen with anger. (M. [In the L and TA, erroneously written, in this sense, ارادّ: see, again, مُرِدٌّ.]) ― -b3- Also It (the sea) was, or became, tumultuous, with many waves. (M, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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