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طُرْآنِىٌّ ذ , an epithet applied to a pigeon, (O, K,) and to an event, (K,) Of which one knows not whence it has come: (K:) an irregular rel. n. from طَرَأَ عَلْيَنَا فُلَانٌ “ Such a one came forth upon us without our knowing him: ” (TA:) [or] طُرْآن is the name of a certain mountain in which are many pigeons; (O, K;) and hence the epithet above mentioned as applied to a pigeon: (O, TA:) Aboo-'Obeyd El-Bekree writes this name, in the Moajam, with damm to the first letter and teshdeed to the second: the vulgar say حَمَام طُورَانِىّ, which is a mistake. (TA.) ― -b2- See also طُرْآنٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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