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مِطْرَحٌ ذ I. q. مِفْرَشٌ [q. v.: and ↓ طَرَّاحَةٌ has the same, or a similar, meaning; applied in the present day to a horse-cloth, and the like; and to a mattress]: pl. مَطَارِحُ. (A, TA.) ― -b2- فَحْلٌ مِطْرَحٌ (tropical:) A stallion that sends his semen far into the womb; (A, * O, K;) like ↓ طَرُوحٌ . (O.) And طَرْفٌ مِطْرَحٌ (tropical:) An eye that sees far; (A, O, K;) as also ↓ طَرِيحٌ . (A, TA.) And رُمْحٌ مِطْرَحٌ (tropical:) A long spear. (A, K.) And إِِبِلٌ مَطَارِحُ (tropical:) Quick, or swift, camels. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [مِطْرَحٌ, as stated by Freytag, is also expl. by Reiske as meaning Camela in cujus ventrem aqua profunda cadit: but this explanation may have originated from a doubtful instance of the same epithet applied to a stallion camel: see above.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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