بَرْذَعَةٌ
1.
(S, Mgh, Msb, K) and بَرْدَعَةٌ (Msb, K) A [cloth of the kind called] حِلْس
which is put beneath the [saddle called] رَحْل (S, Mgh, Msb, K) of the camel: (Mgh:) plural بَرَاذِعُ (Mgh, Msb) and بَرَادِعُ (Msb.) Ru-beh says, [using the singular without the ة as a coll. gen. n.,]
[And beneath the curved pieces of wood of the camels' saddles are the bardha'ahs]. (TA.)
2.
This is the primary signification: but in the conventional language of our time, it is applied to An ass's saddle; the thing upon which one rides on an ass, like the
سَرْج
to the horse; (Msb;) [i. e. a pad, or stuffed saddle; generally stuffed with straw; and used for a mule as well as for an ass;] or an ass's برذعة is a saddle like the
رَحْل
and
قَتَب. (TA voce إِكَافٌ, q. v.)
3.
بَرْذَعَةٌ also signifies Land which is neither hard nor soft: (K:) plural as above. (TA.)