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جَرْسٌ جرس (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ جِرْسٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ جَرَسٌ (Kr, ISd) A sound: (ISk, A, K:) or a low, faint, gentle, slight, or soft, sound: (IDrd, S A, K:) such, for instance, as the sound of the beaks of birds, (S, A, Msb,) pecking, (A,) upon a thing which they are eating: (S:) and that of bees eating flowers or blossoms: (A:) and of a tribe [or crowd of men, more particularly as heard from some distance; i. e., a hum]: (TA:) and of a camel-driver singing to his beasts to urge or excite them: (A:) and the slight sound of a letter of the alphabet: (TA:) and low, gentle, or soft, speech: (Msb:) or when the word is used alone, [i. e., not coupled with another noun as it is in the second of the two examples here following,] it is with fet-h: thus one says, مَا سَمِعْتُ لَهُ جَرْسًا; (A, K;) i. e., I heard not any sound of him, or it: (TA:) but you say, ↓ مَا سَمِعْتُ لَهُ حِسًّا وَلَا جِرْسًا , with kesr; (A, K;) i. e., I heard not any motion, nor any sound, of him, or it: (TA in art. حس:) pl. [app. of the third] أَجْرَاسٌ. (Ham p. 200.) [See also جَرْشٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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