This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
R. Q. 1 قَرْقَرَ ذ , [inf. n. قَرْقَرَةٌ,] It (a man's belly) sounded, [or rumbled,] (S, TA,) by reason of hunger, or from some other cause. (TA.) Also said of a cloud, with thunder. (TA.) ― -b2- It (wine, or beverage,) sounded, [or gurgled,] in a man's throat. (M, TA.) ― -b3- He laughed (S, M, K) in a certain manner, (S,) violently, or immoderately, and reiterating his voice in his throat: (M, K:) or he imitated the sounds of laughing: (IKtt:) or قَرْقَرَ is similar to قَهْقَهَ. (Sh.) ― -b4- He (a camel) brayed, (S, M, K,) with a clear and reiterated voice: (S, M:) or brayed in the best manner: (IKtt:) said only of a camel advanced in age: (S, in art. نقض:) قَرْقَرَةٌ is the inf. n., (S, * M, K, *) and the simple subst. is قَرْقَارٌ: (M, K:) and قَرَاقِرُ is pl. of the former of these ns. (S.) ― -b5- قَرْقَرَتْ It (a pigeon, حَمَامَة,) [cooed; or] uttered its cry: (S, K:) or uttered a hind of cry: (M:) the inf. n. is قَرْقَرَةٌ and قَرْقَرِيرٌ, (S, M, K,) which latter IJ says is of the measure فَعْلَلِيْلٌ, thus making it a quadriliteralradical word, (M,) and قَرْقَارٌ and قَرْقَارٌ, which last is a simple subst. as well as an inf. n., and so is قَرْقرَةٌ. (El-Hasan Ibn-'Abd-Allah El-Kátib El-Isbahánee.) ― -b6- She (a domestic hen) uttered a reiterated cry, or cackling. (Hr, M.)
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.
