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تَرَحٌ أراح راح ترح Grief, sorrow, unhappiness, or anxiety; syn. حُزْنٌ, (Msb,) or هَمٌّ, (K,) or غَمٌّ; (Har p. 141;) contr. of فَرَحٌ. (S, A.) [It is the inf. n. of 1; but used as a subst., it has a pl., namely, أَتْرَاحٌ, like أَفْرَاحٌ. Hence the saying,] مَا الدُّنْيَا إِِلَّا فَرَحٌ وَتَرَحٌ [The present world, or life, is nothing but a scene, or state, of joy and grief]. (A.) ― -b2- A perishing, or dying: becoming cut off; being put an end to; or coming to an end. (IAth, TA.) ― -b3- A descending, going down, or going down a declivity; syn. هُبُوطٌ. (Ibn-Munádhir, K.) One says, مَا زِلْنَا مُذُ الَّيْلَةِ فِى تَرَحٍ i. e. [We have not ceased from the beginning of this night to be] in a state of descending, &c. (Ibn-Munádhir.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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