ضرع

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Arabic

Root
ض ر ع (ḍ r ʕ)
2 terms

Verb

ضَرَعَ (ḍaraʕa) I (non-past يَضْرَعُ (yaḍraʕu), verbal noun ضَرَاعَة (ḍarāʕa))
ضَرُعَ (ḍaruʕa) I (non-past يَضْرُعُ (yaḍruʕu), verbal noun ضَرَاعَة (ḍarāʕa))
ضَرِعَ (ḍariʕa) I (non-past يَضْرَعُ (yaḍraʕu), verbal noun ضَرَع (ḍaraʕ))

  1. to be low, to be abased
  2. (figurative) to plea humbly, to pray

Conjugation

Noun

ضَرَع (ḍaraʕm

  1. verbal noun of ضَرِعَ (ḍariʕa) (form I)

Declension

Noun

ضَرْع (ḍarʕm (plural ضُرُوع (ḍurūʕ))

  1. udder, tit

Declension

Adjective

ضِرْع (ḍirʕ) (masculine plural ضُرُوع (ḍurūʕ) or أَضْرُع (ʔaḍruʕ))

  1. similar

Declension

References

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ضرع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 22–23
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “ضرع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 16