الذَّرِيَاتٌ

[as used in the Qur'an, 51:1 means The winds (S, Bd, Jel) raising, or making to fly, and carrying away, or dispersing, the dust &c.: (Bd, Jel:) or (assumed tropical:) the prolific women; for they scatter children: or (assumed tropical:) the causes of the scattering of the created beings, angels and others. (Bd.)