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تَارٌّ تار A man apart, or separate, from his people. (As, T.) -A2- Plump (Lth, T, S, A) in body, (Lth, T,) and having the bones full of moisture; (Lth, T, A;) fat, soft, thin-skinned, and plump: (S, TA:) applied to a youth: fem. with ة, applied to a girl; (A, TA;) meaning [plump &c.: or] beautiful and foolish and soft or weak. (T.) You say, غُلَامٌ تَارٌّ طَارٌّ [A boy that is plump, and with bones full of moisture, whose mustache is growing forth]. (A.) And قَصَبَةٌ تَارَّةٌ [A bone of the kind called قصبة full of moisture]. (A.) ― -b2- Relaxed, or flaccid, by reason of impatience (جَزَع T) or hunger (جَوْع K) [or the contrary (see أَتَرَّ شَىْءٍ, below,)] or some other cause: (T, K:) so says Abu-l-'Abbás. (T.) ― -b3- A tall man; as also ↓ تَرٌّ , which is app. [a contraction of تَرِرٌ,] of the measure فَعِلٌ. (M.)

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