(S, Msb, K, &c.) and مَزْرُعَةٌ (Sgh, L, K) and مَزْرِعَةٌ (K) A place ofزَرْع [or seed-produce]; as also ↓مُزْدَرَعٌ; (S, Msb, K;) and ↓زَرَّاعَةٌ; (Ham p. 657;) or this last signifies land that is sown: (TA:) plural of the first مَزَارِعُ; (TA;) and of ↓ the last زَرَّاعَاتٌ. (Ham, TA.)
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[Hence the saying,] الدُّنْيَا مَزْرَعَةُ الاخِرَةِ (tropical:) [The present world is the place in which is produced the fruit, or harvest, to be reaped in the world to come]. (TA.)