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جَرٌّ جر (tropical:) The foot, bottom, base, or lowest part, of a mountain; (S, A, K;) like ذَيْلٌ: (A, TA:) or the place where it rises from the plain to the rugged part: (IDrd, TA:) or الجّرُّ أَصْلُ الجَبَلِ is a mistranscription of Fr, and is correctly الجُرَاصِلُ الجَبَلُ [i. e. جُراصِلٌ signifies “a mountain”]: (K:) but جُرَاصِلٌ is not mentioned [elsewhere] in the K, nor by any one of the writers on strange words; and [SM says,] there is evidently no mistranscription: جَرُّ الجَبَلِ occurs in a trad., meaning the foot, &c., of the mountain: and its pl. is جِرَارٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- هَلْمَّ جَرًّا: see 1. -A2- See also جَرَّةٌ. -A3- لَا جَرَّ i. q. لَا جَرَمَ: see art. جرم. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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