This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
جِرَّةٌ جر جره جرة A mode, or manner, of dragging, drawing, pulling, tugging, straining, or stretching. (K.) -A2- The stomach of the camel, and of a clovenhoofed animal: this is the primary signification: by extension of its meaning, it has the signification next following. (Msb.) ― -b2- The cud which a camel [or cloven-hoofed animal] ejects from its stomach, (Az, S, * IAth, Mgh, Msb, K, *) and eats again, (K,) or chews, or ruminates, (Az, IAth, Msb,) or to chew, or ruminate; (S;) as also ↓ جَرَّةٌ : (K:) it is said to belong to the same predicament as بَعْر. (Mgh.) Hence the saying, لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ مَا ا@خْتَلَفَتِ الدِّرَّةُ وَالجِرَّةُ I will not do that as long as the flow of milk and the cud go [the former] downwards and [the latter] upwards. (S, A. * [See also دِرَّةٌ.]) And اُجْتُلِبَتِ الدِّرَّةُ بِالجِرَّةِ [The flow of milk was procured by the cud]: alluding to the beasts' becoming full of food, and then lying down and not ceasing to ruminate until the time of milking. (IAar, TA.) And لَا يَحْنَقُ عَلَى جِرَّتِهِ (assumed tropical:) He will not bear rancour, or malice, against his subjects:: or, as some say, cross he will not conceal a secret: (TA:) and مَا يَحْنَقُ عَلَى جِرَّةٍ and مَا يَكْظِمُ على جِرَّةٍ (assumed tropical:) he does not speak when affected with rancour, or malice: (TA in art. حنق:) [or the last has the contr. signification: for] لَا يَكْظِمُ عَلَى جِرَّتِهِ means (tropical:) he will not be silent respecting that which is in his bosom, but will speak of it. (TA in art. كظم.) ― -b3- Also The mouthful with which the camel diverts and occupies himself until the time when his fodder is brought to him. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
