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جَرَّةٌ جر جره جرة [A jar;] a well-known vessel; (Msb;) an earthen vessel; a vessel made of potters' clay: (T, IDrd, * S, * K: *) or anything made of clay: (Mgh:) dim. جُرَيْرَةٌ: (TA:) pl. جِرَارٌ (T, S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جَرَّاتٌ (Msb) and ↓ جَرٌّ , (T, S, Msb, K,) [or this last is rather a coll. gen. n., signifying pottery, or jars, &c.,] like تَمْرٌ in relation to تَمْرَةٌ; or, accord. to some, this is a dial. var. of جَرَّةٌ. (Msb.) Beverage of the kind called نَبِيذ made in such a vessel is forbidden in a trad.: (Mgh, TA:) but accord. to IAth, the trad. means a vessel of this kind glazed within, because the beverage acquires strength, and ferments, more quickly in a glazed earthen vessel. (TA.) -A2- See also جِرَّةٌ: -A3- and see what here next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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