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مُجْرٍ مجر [Making to run]. It is said in a prov., كُلُّ مُجْرٍ فِى الخَلَآءِ يُسَرُّ [Every one who makes his horse to run in the solitary place rejoices, because no one can contradict his account of his horse's fleetness]. (Mgh.) [See Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 315 and 316, where two other readings are added: كلّ مجر بِخَلَآءٍ مُجِيدٌ, i. e., is possessor of a fleet horse; and كلّ مجر بِخَلَآءٍ سَابِقٌ, i. e., is one who outstrips.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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