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جَرِىْءٌ جرىء جريء جرئ Bold, daring, brave, or courageous: (S, Msb, * K, TA:) pl. أَجْرَآءٌ, accord. to a MS. copy of the K; [and so in the CK;] but in the M, أَجْرِئَآءُ, with two hemzehs, on the authority of Lh; and so in some copies of the K; and sometimes جُرَأ=ءُ, like حُلَمَآءُ, occurring in a trad., as some relate it; but the reading commonly known is حُرَأ=ء, with the unpointed ح. (TA.) ― -b2- جَرِىْءُ المُقْدَمِ Bold, daring, brave, or courageous, in venturing [against an adversary, or upon an undertaking]. (S.) ― -b3- الجَرِىْءُ The lion; as also ↓ المُجْتَرِىءُ . (O, K.)

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