Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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7 انضرج ذ It (a thing, or garment, &c., L) split, slit, or rent asunder or open; (S, O, L, K;) as also انضرج; (TA in art. ضرح;) and so ↓ تضرّج [but app. in an intensive sense, or said of a number of things]: (L:) the latter is said of a garment in the former sense; (TA;) or as meaning it became much rent, or rent in several places. (L.) When the fruits of herbs, or leguminous plants, appear, one says, اِنْضَرَجَتْ عَنْهَا لَفَائِفُهَا and أَكْمَامُهَا [i. e. Their envelopes, or pericarps, and their calyxes, rent asunder or open, so as to disclose them]. (A, TA. [And the like is said in the S and O.]) And one says also, عَنِ البَقْلِ لَفَائِفُهُ ↓ تَضَرَّجَتْ , meaning اِنْفَتَحَت [i. e. The envelopes, or pericarps, of the herbs, or leguminous plants, opened so as to disclose what was within them]. (S, O.) And النَّوْرُ ↓ تضرّج The blossoms opened. (K.) And انضرج الشَّجَرُ The buds of the trees burst open and the extremities of the leaves appeared. (L.) And ↓ تضرّج said of lightning means تَشَقَّقَ [i. e. It clave the clouds, and extended high, into the midst of the sky; or it was in a state of commotion in the clouds; or it spread wide and long]. (S, A, O, K.) ― -b2- Also It was, or became, wide, or ample. (El-Muärrij, S, O, K.) You say, انضرجت لَنَا الطَّرِيقُ The road was, or became, wide to us. (TA.) And انضرج مَا بَيْنَ القَوْمِ The space between the people was, or became, far-extending: (As, S, O, K: *) and so انضرج. (S in art. ضرح.) ― -b3- انضرجت العُقَابُ The eagle darted down upon the prey: (O, K:) or betook itself, or advanced, to it: (O:) or took a sidelong course to it. (O, K. *)