This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
أَغَرُّ ذ More, or most, negligent, inattentive, inadvertent, inconsiderate, heedless, or unprepared. (Mgh.) See also غُرَّةٌ, second sentence. -A2- And White; (S, K;) applied to anything: (K:) pl. غُرٌّ (TA) and غُرَّانٌ (S) [and perhaps غُرَرٌ, as in an ex. voce ذِرْوَةٌ: but see what is said of this pl. in a later part of this paragraph]. You say رَجُلٌ أَغَرُّ الوَجْهِ A man white of countenance. (TA.) And قَوْمٌ غُرَّانٌ, (S,) and غُرٌّ, (TA,) White people. (S.) And اِمْرَأَةٌ غَرَّآءُ A woman [white of countenance: or] beautiful in the front teeth. (TA voce فَرَّآءُ.) See, again, غُرَّةٌ, second sentence. And الأَيَّامُ الغُرُّ The days of which the nights are white by reason of the moon; which are the 13th and 14th and 15th; also called البِيضُ. (TA.) And يَوْمٌ أَغَرُّ مُحَجَّلٌ: see art. حجل. And اللَّيْلَةُ الغَرَّآءُ (assumed tropical:) The night of [i. e. preceding the day called] Friday. (O.) ― -b2- Also A horse having a غُرَّة [i. e. a star, or blaze, or white mark, on the forehead or face]: (S, Mgh, Msb, K:) or having a غُرَّة larger than a دِرْهَم, in the middle of his forehead, not reaching to either of the eyes, nor inclining upon either of the cheeks, nor extending downwards; it is more spreading than the قُرْحَة, which is of the size of a درهم, or less: or having a غُرَّة of any kind, such as the قُرْحَة or the شِمْرَاخ or the like: (L, TA:) and in like manner a camel having a غُرَّة: (IAar:) fem. غَرَّآءُ. (Msb, K.) [See an ex. in a prov. cited voce بَهِيمٌ: and another (from a trad.) voce مُحَجَّلٌ.] ― -b3- [Hence] الغَرَّآءُ (assumed tropical:) A certain bird, (K, TA,) black, (TA,) white-headed: applied to the male and the female: pl. غُرٌّ; (K, TA;) which is also expl. in the K as signifying certain aquatic birds. (TA.) ― -b4- And أَغَرُّ, (K, TA,) applied to a man, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) One whose beard occupies the whole of his face, except a little: (K, TA:) as though it [his face] were a [horse's] غُرَّة. (TA.) ― -b5- And (tropical:) Generous; open, or fair, or illustrious, in his actions; (K;) applied to a man: (TA:) eminent; noble; as also ↓ غُرْغُرَةٌ : (S, K:) or fair-faced: or a lord, or chief, among his people: (Msb:) pl. غُرٌّ, (T, M,) accord. to the K غُرَرٌ, but the former is more correct, (TA,) and غُرَّانٌ. (T, M, K.) And ↓ غُرَّى signifies (assumed tropical:) A woman of rank, eminence, or nobility, among her tribe. (Sgh, K, TA.) ― -b6- يَوْمٌ أَغَرُّ means (tropical:) An intensely hot day: (K, TA: afterwards expl. in the K as meaning [simply] a hot day: TA.) and in like manner one says هَاجِرَةٌ غَرَّآءُ, and ظَهِيرَةٌ غَرَّآءُ, (K, TA, expl. by As as meaning, white by reason of the intense heat of the sun, TA,) and وَدِيقَةٌ غَرَّآءُ. (K, TA.) ― -b7- And سَنَةٌ غَرَّآءُ (assumed tropical:) A year in which is no rain. (L in art. شهب.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
