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The corpus record — Arabic

مَرْعَىٰ

mar'aaa

maroEFY * an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (S, K.) ― -b2- And A pasturage, or place of pasture; (S, K;) as also ↓ maroEaApN : (Sgh, K:) pl. maraAEK . (TA.) [Hence,] faA_in~a likul~K bugaApN ↓ laA tadaEan~a fataApF walaA maroEaApF [ Do not thou leave uncared for a young woman nor a pasturage, for there are p

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Where it lives

  • The Quran 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

1. مَرْعًى

maroEFY * an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (S, K.) ― -b2- And A pasturage, or place of pasture; (S, K;) as also ↓ maroEaApN : (Sgh, K:) pl. maraAEK . (TA.) [Hence,] faA_in~a likul~K bugaApN ↓ laA tadaEan~a fataApF walaA maroEaApF [ Do not thou leave uncared for a young woman nor a pasturage, for there are persons that seek, or endeavour, to find and get each ]: a prov. enjoining the availing oneself of an opportunity, and the setting about an affair with prudence, discretion, precaution, or sound judgment. (Meyd.) ― -b3- See also riEoYN , in three places.

2. مَرْعِىٌّ

maroEiY~N * [ Kept, or tended; pastured, or fed: kept, guarded, or minded: and] ruled, or governed; as in an ex. above, voce raAEK , last sentence but one. (TA.)

In the wild

Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.