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بُرُأَةٌ ذ A hunter's lurking-place or covert: (T, S, M, K:) pl. بُرَأٌ. (T, S, M.) El-Aashà says, “ بِهَا بُرَأٌ مِثْلُ الفَسِيلِ المُكَمَّمِ
” [At it (a source of water mentioned in the context) were hunters' lurking-places, like young palmtrees covered over: for tender young palm-trees are often covered over with a kind of coarse matting]. (T, S, M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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