أَمْعَزُ

, and its feminine مَعْزَاءُ, applied respectively to a place (مَكَانٌ) and to land or ground (أَرْضٌ), (tropical:) Hard, (S, K,) and abounding with pebbles: (S:) or both, [used as substs.,] rugged and stony ground: (A:) or a place abounding with pebbles, and hard: or the latter, small pebbles: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) thus A 'Obeyd explains a singular as having a plural signification: (TA:) or the latter, a desert, (صَحْرَاء) in which is elevation and ruggedness, consisting of soil, or clay, and pebbles, mixed together, but hard ground, rough to the tread: (ISh, TA:) plural مُعْزٌ, (K,) [a plural of each as an epithet, or of each used as a subst.,] because imagined to have the character of an epithet; (TA;) and أَمَاعِزُ, [a plural of the former,] because the character of a subst. predominates in it; and مَعْزَاوَاتٌ, a plural of the latter. (TA.)