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غَدَرٌ ذ ; pl. غُدُورٌ: see غُدْرَةٌ, in three places. ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, أَلْقَتِ النَّاقَةُ غَدَرَهَا The she-camel cast forth what her womb had left remaining in it of blood and foul matter [after her bringing forth]. (TA.) And أَلْقَتِ الشَّاةُ غُدُورَهَا The ewe, or she-goat, cast forth the water and blood and other remains in her womb after bringing forth. (TA.) ― -b3- And فِى النَّهْرِ غَدَرٌ In the river, or rivulet, is slime remaining when the water has sunk into the earth. (TA.) -A2- غَدَرٌ signifies also A place such as is termed ظَلِف [app. as meaning hard, and that does not show a footmark, or rugged and hard], abounding with stones: (S, O, TA:) or a place abounding with stones, difficult to traverse: (TA:) or any difficult place, through which the beast can hardly, or in nowise, pass: (K:) or soft ground, in which are [trenches, or channels, such as are termed] لَخَاقِيق: (TA:) or burrows, (Lh, S, K, TA,) and banks, or ridges, worn and undermined by water, (Lh, TA,) and uneven لَخَاقِيق in the ground: (Lh, S, K, TA: [and the like is also said in the TA on the authority of As:]) and stones (K, TA) with trees; thus accord. to AZ and IKtt: (TA:) and anything that conceals one, and obstructs his sight: pl. أَغْدَارٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, مَا أَثْبَتَ غَدَرَهُ, meaning مَا أَثْبَتَهُ فِى الغَدَرِ [How firm is he in traversing the rugged and hard and stony place! &c.]: this is said of the horse: and also (assumed tropical:) of the man when his tongue is firm in the place of slipping and of contention or litigation: (S, TA:) or, accord. to Lh, it means (assumed tropical:) how firm, or valid, is his argument, or plea, and how seldom does harm in consequence of slipping and stumbling befall him! or, accord. to Ks, how firm is what remains of his intellect or understanding! but ISd says that this explanation did not please him. (TA.) And فَرَسٌ ثَبْتُ الغَدَرِ A horse firm, or steady, in the place of slipping. (Ibn-Buzurj, TA.) And رَجُلٌ ثَبْتُ الغَدَرِ (tropical:) A man firm, or steadfast, in fight, or conflict, (S, K, TA,) or in altercation or disputation, or in speech, (S accord. to different copies,) or and in altercation or disputation, (K, TA,) and in speech; (TA;) and also in everything that he commences. (K, TA.) And accord. to Ibn-Buzurj one says, إِِنَّهُ لَثَبْتُ الغَدَرِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily he is strong in talking or discoursing, with men, and in contending, or disputing, with them. (L.) [See also ثَبْتٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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