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البَرِيَّةُ البريه البرية بري برية The creation; as meaning the beings, or things, that are created; or, particularly, mankind; syn. الخَلْقُ: (T, S, M:) pronounced without '; (T, S;) originally with ', like نَبِىٌّ and ذُرِّيَةٌ; (M;) and the people of Mekkeh differ from the other Arabs in pronouncing these three words with ': (Yoo, T, M:) Lh says that the Arabs agree in omitting the ' in these three instances; and he does not except the people of Mekkeh: (M:) it is of the measure فَعِيلَةٌ in the sense of مَفْعُولَةٌ, (Msb,) from بَرَأَ ا@للّٰهُ الخَلْقَ, meaning خَلَقَهُمْ: (Fr, T:) or, if derived from البَرَى [“earth” or “dust”], it is originally without ': (Fr, T, S:) pl. بَرَايَا and بَرِيَّاتٌ. (S in art. برو and برى.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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