Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, غ

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غرث

1 غَرِثَ ذ , aor. غَرَثَ , (S, A, O, K,) inf. n. غَرَثٌ, (S, O,) He hungered: (S, A, O, K:) or, as some say, in the slightest degree: and some say, vehemently. (TA.) -A2- And accord. to Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee, one says, غَرِثُوا بِإِِبِلِ فُلَانٍ, meaning They took the camels of such a one wrongfully: and a man says to another, وَيْلَكَ غَرِثْتَ بِى وَتَرَكْتَ حَقَّكَ [app. meaning Woe to thee: thou hast wronged me, and hast left, or neglected, thy right]. (O.) 2 غرّث ذ , (S, A, O,) inf. n. تَغْرِيثٌ, (S, A, O, K,) He made hungry; made to hunger. (S, A, O, K.) You say, غرّث كِلَابَهُ He made his dogs hungry. (S, O.) غَرْثَانُ ذ Hungry: [or, accord. to some, in the slightest degree: and accord. to some, vehemently: (see the verb:)] you say قَوْمٌ غَرْثَى [using the fem., i. e. a hungry people or party], (S, A, * O, K,) and غَرَاثَى, (S, O, K,) and also with kesr to the ث [i. e. غَرَاثٍ] accord. to a copy of the S, (TA,) and غِرَاثٌ: (S, A, O, K:) the fem. is غَرْثَى; (S, A, O, K;) pl. غِرَاثٌ. (S, O, K.) And you say اِمْرَأَةٌ غَرْثَى الوِشَاحِ, meaning (tropical:) A woman slender in the waist: (S, A, O, K:) because she does not fill her وشاح [q. v.] which is therefore as though it were hungry. (S, O.)