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جَارِحَةٌ جارح جارحه جارحة sing. of جَوَارِحُ. (Mgh, L, Msb, TA.) ― -b2- The latter signifies (tropical:) Beasts, and birds, of prey; or that catch game; (S, A, * Mgh, L, Msb, K:) thus the falcon is a جارحة, and so is the dog trained for hunting, because it gains for its owner: (L:) and this appellation is applied alike to the male and the female, like رَاحِلَةٌ and رَاوِيَةٌ. (Msb.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The members, or limbs, of a man, with which things are gained or earned; (S, K, TA;) or with which one works; (A;) as the hands or arms, and the feet or legs: (S, A, K, TA:) because they gain, or earn, or do, good and evil. (TA.) ― -b4- [And (tropical:) The organs of the body: thus, for instance, جارحة is applied (in the Msb, art. بصر,) to the eye, which is termed (in the TA in that art.) the seeing جارحة (الجَارِحَةُ النَّاظِرَةُ).] ― -b5- Also (assumed tropical:) Mares: [and the like:] because they bring gain to their owners by their breeding. (AA, T.) You say, مَا لَهُ جَارِحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) He possesses not a female beast that bears young: he possesses not that which makes gain. (TA.) And هٰذِهِ النَّاقَةُ مِنْ جَوَارِحِ المَالِ, and هذه الأَتَانُ, (K,) and هذه الفَرَسُ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) This she-camel, and this she-ass, and this mare, is young, unimpaired by age (مُقْبِلَةٌ [i. q. مُقْتَبَلَةٌ]) in the womb, (K, TA,) and in youthful vigour, and one of which the offspring is wished for. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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