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قَرَارِىٌّ ذ , from قَرَارٌ, because he who is so called remains in the dwellings, (TA,) An inhabitant of a region, district, or tract, of cities, towns, or villages, and of cultivated land, who does not go in search of pasture: (K:) a tailor: (IAar, S, K:) a butcher: or any workman or artificer. (K.) The vulgar use it in the present day as an intensive epithet; saying خَيَّاط قَرَارِى, and نَجَّار قَرَارِى, (TA,) meaning a clever tailor, and a clever carpenter; and in like manner, قِرْقَارِى. (IbrD.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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