عَرَاءٌ
1.
[is apparently a subst. signifying Nakedness, or bareness, or the like: for عَرَاءُ العِظَامِ مِنَ اللَّحْمِ occurs in the TA, in article عجف, evidently as meaning Leanness of the bones.
2.
Also] A wide, or spacious, place or tract of land, (S, M, Msb, K,) in which is nothing that hides, or conceals, (S, Msb,) or in which nothing will be hidden, (M, TA,) or in which one will not be hidden by anything; (K;) occurring in the Qur'an, 37:145 [and lxviii. 49]: (S:) or the vacant surface of the earth or land, or of a wide space of land: (TA in this article:) or a tract such as is termed
جَهْرَاءُ [q. v.]: (TA in article جهر:) plural أَعْرَاءٌ. (K.) [In the TA in article جهر the plural is said to be أَعْرِيَةٌ. See also عَرَى.]