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قَرَارٌ ذ : see 1, first signification. ― -b2- A state of settledness, fixedness, stability, establishment, quiet, stillness, rest, permanence, or continuance; (Msb, TA;) and so ↓ مُسْتَقَرٌّ , in the Kur, ii. 34, and vii. 23: (Bd, TA:) or in these two instances the latter is a n. of place. (Bd.) [Hence,] دَارُ القَرَارِ [Kur, xl. 42, The abode of stability; the permanent abode; i. e.,] the world to come. (TA, art. دور; &c.) -A2- [A place, and a time, of settledness, fixedness, stability, establishment, quiet, stillness, rest, permanence, or continuance; a restingplace;] i. q. ↓ مُسْتَقَرٌّ (TA) [and ↓ مَقَرٌّ ] and ↓ قُرٌّ . (S, M, K.) Exs. صَارَ الأَمْرُ إِِلَى قَرَارِهِ, and ↓ مُسْتَقَرِّهِ , [The thing, or affair, came to its place, or time, of settledness, &c.; or the meaning may be, to its state of settledness, &c.; the explanation is] came to its end, and became settle, fixed, &c. (M, TA.) And لَهَا ↓ وَالشَّمْسُ تَجْرِى لِمُسْتَقَرٍّ [Kur, xxxvi. 38,] And the sun runneth to a place, and time, beyond which it doth not pass: or to a term appointed for it: (TA:) or to a determined limit, where its revolution ends; likened to the مستقرّ of a traveller, when he ends his journey: or to the middle of the sky; for it there seems to pause: or to its state of settledness, &c., according to a special path: or to its appointed end in one of the different places of rising and setting which it has on different days: or to the end of its course, in the desolate part of the world: and accord. to other readings, لَا مُسْتَقَرَّ لَهَا, and لَا مُسْتَقَرٌّ لَهَا, meaning, it has no rest; for it is always in motion. (Bd.) And ↓ لِكُلِّ نَبَإٍِ مُسْتَقَرٌّ [Kur, vi. 66,] To every prophecy is a term [for its fulfilment], which ye shall see in the present world and in the world to come. (TA.) And الرَّحِمِ ↓ مَقَرُّ The extreme part of the womb; the resting-place (مُسْتَقَرّ) of the fœtus therein. (M, K.) It is said in the Kur, [vi. 98,] وَمُسْتَوْدَعٌ ↓ فَمُسْتَقَرٌّ , meaning, And ye have a resting-place in the womb, and a depository [in the spermatic sources] in the back: but some read وَمُسْتَوْدَعٌ ↓ فَمُسْتَقِرٌّ , meaning, and [there is] such as is yet remaining in the womb, or such as is established in the present world, in existence, and such as is deposited in the back, not yet created: or and there is of you such as remains among the living, and such as is deposited in the earth [among the dead]: (M, TA:) or such as hath been born and hath appeared upon the earth, and such as is in the womb: (Lth, TA:) or such as yet remains in the back, and such as is deposited in the womb. (TA.) You say also, ا@لْمُقَدَّسَةَ ↓ أَذْكَرَنِى ا@لْمَقَارَّ [He, or it, reminded me of the consecrated places of abode: مَقَارُّ is pl. of ↓ مَقَرٌّ ]. (TA.) And one says, on the occasion of a calamity befalling, ↓ صَابَتْ بِقُرٍّ , (S, Z, M, *) or ↓ وَقَعَتْ بِقُرٍّ , (K,) meaning, It (the calamity, الشِّدَّةُ, S) became [or fell] in its قَرَار [or settled or fixed place, or in the place where it should remain:] (S, K:) or the thing came to its قَرَار: (M:) or it fell in its place: (Z:) or it fell where it ought: (Th:) and sometimes they said ↓ وَقَعَتْ بِقُرِّهَا [it fell in its settled or fixed place, &c.]: (S:) and وَقَعَ الأَمْرُ ↓ بِقُرِّهِ , i. e. ↓ بِمُسْتَقَرِّهِ [the thing fell in the place where it did, or should, rest, or remain]: (As:) and one says to a man who seeks blood-revenge, when he meets the slayer of his relation, ↓ وَقَعْتَ بِقُرِّكَ thy heart has met that which it looked for. (TA.) ↓ لَقَدْ وَقَعْتُ بِقُرِّكَ , and ↓ بِقُحَاحِ قُرِّكَ , also means I have become acquainted with all that thou knowest, nothing thereof being hidden from me. (Ibn-Buzurj, in TA, art. قح.) One says also, [in threatening another,] لَأُلْجِثَنَّكَ إِِلَى قُرِّ قَرَارِكَ; a prov., meaning, الى أَصْلِكَ وَجَهْدِكَ [i. e. I will assuredly impel thee, or drive thee, against thy will, to the utmost point to which thou canst go, or be brought or reduced; and, constrain thee to do thine utmost]. (JK. [Or the meaning is, I will assuredly impel thee, or drive thee, against thy will, to the place that thou deservest: or, to the place where thou shalt remain: or, to thy grave: or, to thy worst and lowest state or condition: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 450.]) ― -b2- A region, or place, of fixed abode; i. q. مِنَ ↓ مُسْتَقَرٌّ الأَرْضِ: (S:) a region, district, or tract, of cities, towns, or villages, and of cultivated land; syn. حَضَرٌ. (TA.) Hence, أَهْلُ القَرَارِ [The people residing in such a region]: and hence, قَرَارِىٌّ, q. v. (TA.) [Hence, المُلْكِ وَغَيْرِهِ ↓ مُسْتَقَرُّ The seat of regal power, &c.] ― -b3- I. q. مَا قَرَّ فِيهِ, (as in a copy of the M,) or ما قُرَّ فيه, (as in copies of the K,) i. e., ما قرّ فيه الماء (TA, written without any syll. signs,) [app. meaning, A place in which water has remained, or been poured]; as also ↓ قَرَارَةٌ : (M, K:) a depressed piece of ground; as also the latter word: (M, K:) or the latter is applied to any depressed piece of ground into which water pours and where it remains; and such ground is fertile, if the soil be soft: (AHn, M:) and to a round tract of level, or level and depressed, ground: (IAar, S:) and to a low meadow: (TA:) and to a small pool of water left by a torrent: (TA, art. ثعجر:) and the former of the two words is also explained as signifying a depressed place where water rests: so in the Kur, xxiii. 52: and a place where water rests in a meadow: (TA:) and it is also a pl., [or rather a coll. gen. n.,] of which the sing. [or n. un.] is ↓ قَرَارَةٌ : (As, M:) and قَرَارٌ is applied to low grounds because water rests in them. (ISh.) Ibn-' Abbás, mentioning 'Alee, said, عِلْمِى إِِلَى عِلْمِهِ كَالقَرَارَةِ فِى المُثْعَنْجَرِ My knowledge compared to his knowledge is like the small pool of water left by a torrent, placed by the side of the [main deep, or] middle of the sea. (K, * TA, art. ثعجر.) ― -b4- [The bottom of the sea, &c.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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