Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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مَضْرَحِىٌّ ذ A hawk, (S, A, O, K,) and a vulture, (A,) having long wings; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ مَضْرَحٌ ; (O, K;) but the former is the more common: a hawk of this description is of an excellent kind: (TA:) and to the wings of the vulture of this sort is likened the extremity of the tail of a she-camel with the coarse hairs that are upon it: (Kf, TA:) or white, applied to a hawk and to a vulture; (A;) or thus, applied to a vulture; and sometimes, so applied, black: (Ham p. 95:) or a vulture intensely red [or brown]: (AHát, O:) [and a hawk in which is redness; otherwise it is not thus called: (so in the Deewán of Jereer, accord. to Freytag:)] or i. q. أَجْدَلٌ and صَقْرٌ and قَطَامِىٌّ: (A'Obeyd, TA:) [it is mentioned in the K again in art. مضرح; for,] accord. to some, the م is radical: (TA in art. مضرح:) or, applied to a hawk, it means that darts down sideways; or that thrusts the prey. (Ham ubi suprà.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A chief, (S, A, O, K,) such as is generous, or noble, (K,) or of ancient (A, O) and generous (O) origin. (A, O.) ― -b3- Also White as an epithet applied to anything. (K.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) Tall, or long. (K, TA.)