zarda (sweet dish)

, aor. , (S, L, Msb, K,) inf. n. زَرْدٌ, (S, L, Msb,) or زَرَدٌ; (TA; [but this I find not in any other lexicon;]) or زَرَدَ, (A, Mgh,) or this also, aor. , inf. n. زَرْدٌ and زَرَدَانٌ; this latter form of the verb being mentioned by IDrd in the Jm, and ISd in the M, and IKtt in the Af'ál; but it is disapproved by Th, and asserted by his expositors to be vulgar; (TA;) and ↓ اِزْدَرَدَ, (S, * A, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. اِزْدِرَادٌ (S, A) and مُزْدَرَدٌ; (A, TA;) and ↓ تزرّد; (A, TA;) and اِزْدَارَ, mentioned by 'Amr El-Mutarriz, but this is the most strange; (TA;) He swallowed (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) a morsel, or mouthful, (S, A, Msb, K,) or water, (Mgh,) [and medicine; for] you say دَوَآءٌ ↓ صَعْبُ المُزْدَرَدِ [A medicine difficult to swallow]. (A, TA.) And one says of a man swearing, حَصَّآءَ ↓ تَزَرَّدَهَا and تَزَبَّدَهَا حَذَّآءَ (tropical:) [He swallowed it; meaning, took it hastily; i. e. the oath]. (A, TA.) -A2- زَرَدَهُ, aor. (S, K) and , (TA, and so in a copy of the S, as well as ,) or زَرَدَ حَلْقَهُ, (A, TA, [in my copy of the A written زَرَّدَ,]) inf. n. زَرْدٌ, (S,) He strangled him, or throttled him, or squeezed his throat; syn. خَنَقَهُ, (S, K,) or عَصَرَ حَلْقَهُ. (A.) And زَرَدَهُ He took him, or seized him, by his throat. (TA.) ― -b2- زَرَدَ الدِّرْعَ, (K,) inf. n. زَرْدٌ, (S, A,) He fabricated the coat of mail, by inserting the rings one into another; i. q. سَرَدَهَا: (K:) الزَّرْدُ is like السَّرْدُ, meaning the inserting (تَدَاخُل [an intrans. inf. n. here used as though it were trans., as is shown in the S in art. سرد,]) of the rings of a coat of mail, one into another: (S:) [or, as Z says,] زَرْدُ الدِّرْعِ means سَرْدُهَا, because the coat of mail consists of narrow, or close, rings: (A:) the ز is said to be a substitute for س. (L, TA.)

(tropical:) He was angry with his companion, and looked sternly, austerely, or morosely, at him; i. e. he contracted his eye in looking at him, and did not open it until he had satisfied it with gazing at him. (A, TA.)

see 1, in two places.

, inf. n. اِزْدِرَادٌ and مُزْدَرَدٌ: see 1, in two places.

: see the next paragraph, in two places.

, (S, A, K,) of the measure فَعَلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (A,) A coat of mail; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ زَرْدٌ, which is an inf. n. used as a subst. [and therefore used as a sing. and a pl., and applied, as is also زَرَدٌ to anything made of mail, a piece of mail, and rings in general, like سَرْدٌ, q. v.], (A,) and ↓ زَرَدِيَّةٌ: (mentioned as syn. with دِرْعٌ in art. درع in the Msb and in the TA, on the authority of IAth:) the pl. of ↓ زَرْدٌ is زُرُودٌ. (TA.) [See also رَفْرَفٌ and مغْفَرٌ.]

Quick in swallowing: (K:) but in the Nawádir el-Aaráb, food that is soft, and quick in descending [in the throat]. (TA.)

[The quantity that is swallowed at once; like جُرْعَةٌ and بُلْعَةٌ;] a morsel, or small mouthful: so in the saying, ظَنَّ فُلَانٌ أَنِّى زُرْدَةٌ لَهُ (tropical:) [Such a one thought that I was a morsel for him]. (A, TA.)

A guest: as though he throttled his companion. (A, TA.)

The vulva of a woman: (K, TA:) accord. to some, (TA,) so called because it swallows (يَزْدَرِدٌ), or because it compresses (يَزْرُدُ [in the CK يَزْدَرِدُ again]), (K, TA,) i. e. يَخْنُقُ, (TA,) the أُيُور, by its straitness. (K, TA.)

: see زَرَدٌ.

(S, K) and ↓ مِزْرَدٌ (K) A cord by which the throat of a camel is compressed, in order that he may not eject his cud therefrom and bespatter his rider. (S, K.) The former word is also expl. in the K by مِخْنَقَةٌ, [in some copies of the K مِخْفَفَة,] which signifies the same. (TA.)