ذرّع

1.
, (S, K, &c.,) verbal noun تَذْرِيعٌ: (S:) see 1, first sentence.
2.
Also He spread himself out widely, (El-Moheet, L, K,) and stretched forth his fore arms, (El-Moheet, L,) in swimming: (El-Moheet, L, K:) said of a man. (El-Moheet, L.)
3.
He (a man) raised his fore arms; and particularly, in announcing good tidings or in warning: (TA:) or he (an announcer of good tidings) made a sign with his arm, or hand. (S, K.)
4.
ذرّع فِى المَشْىِ He moved about his fore arms in walking, or going along. (S, K.) And ذرّع فى السَّعْىِ, (L, TA,) in the O and Moheet and K, erroneously, فىالسَّقْىِ, (TA,) He helped himself with his arms, and moved them about, (O, El-Moheet, L, K,) in walking, or walking quickly, or running. (L.)
5.
ذرّع لِى شَيْيءًا مِنْ خَبَرِهِ (tropical:) He acquainted me with somewhat of his tidings, or case; (K, TA;) [as though he stretched forth his arm with his information;] said by one who has asked another respecting his case. (TA.)
6.
[And hence, apparently,] ذرّع بِكَذَا (assumed tropical:) He acknowledged, or confessed, such a thing. (K, TA.)
7.
ذرّع فُلَانًا and ذرّع لَهُ: see 1.
8.
[Hence, perhaps,] ذرّعهُ, verbal noun as above. (assumed tropical:) He killed him; or slew him. (TA.)
9.
ذرّع البَعِيرَ, and ذرّع لَهُ, He bound both of the arms of the camel [to the shanks]: (K:) and the latter, he bound the camel with the redundant part of his nose-rein upon his [the camel's] arm. (K, TA.) [See also تَذْرِيعٌ below.]
10.
تَذْرِيعٌ also signifies The tinging a captive's fore arm with crocus, or with خَلُوق, as a sign of slaughter; which was done in the time before Mohammad. (Meyd, cited by Freytag.)
11.
[See also the act. and pass. particle ns., below.]

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