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قُرٌّ ذ i. q. قَرَارٌ [q. v.] (S, M, K) and مُسْتَقَرٌّ (TA) [and مَقَرٌّ]. -A2- Also, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ قَرٌّ , (Lh, Kt,) which latter form, it is said, must be used in conjunction with [its contr.] حَرٌّ, for the sake of assimilation, (TA,) and ↓ قِرٌّ , (Kt,) Cold; coldness; chill; chilness; coolness; syn. بَرْدٌ; (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ قِرَّةٌ : (S:) or قُرٌّ signifies cold; &c., in winter; (M, K;) whereas بَرْدٌ is in winter and summer: (M:) and ↓ قِرَّةٌ , cold, &c., by which a man (M, K) or other creature, (M,) is affected, or smitten. (M, K.) You say دَخَلُوا فِى القُرِّ They entered upon the [time of] cold. (M.) And لَا حَرَّ وَلَا قَرَّ Neither heat nor cold. (TA, from a trad.) And لَيْلَةٌ ↓ ذَاتُ قِرَّةٍ A night of cold. (TA.) And اشدُّ ↓ العَطَشِ حِرَّةٌ عَلَى قِرَّةٌ (S) The most severe of thirst is thirst in a cold day. (S, art. حر.) And sometimes the Arabs said ↓ أَجِدُ حِرَّةٌ تَحْتَ قِرَّةٌ (S) [I experience] thirst in a cold day. (ISd, in TA, art. حر.) [See this and other exs. in art. حر.) One says also ↓ ذَهَبَتْ قِرَّتُهَا , [meaning قِرَّةٌ العِلَّةِ,] The time of its access, or coming, meaning of the access, or coming, of the disease, [app., of the shivering-fit of an ague, (see عُرَوَآءُ,)] departed: the [pronoun] ها refers to [the word] العِلَّة. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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