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4 اقرّه ذ , (S, M, K,) and ↓ قرّرهُ , (M, K,) He settled, fixed, established or confirmed, him, or it; rendered him, or it, motionless, quiet, still, or at rest; made him, or it, to rest, remain, or con- tinue; (S, * M, * K;) فِيهِ [in it, namely, a place, or the like], and عَلَيْهِ [in it, namely, a state, an office, or the like]. (M, K.) You say اقرّهُ فى مَكَانِهِ [He settled, fixed, established, or confirmed, &c., him, or it, in his, or its, place]. (S, K.) And مَا أَقَرَّنِى فِى هٰذَا البَلَدِ إِِلَّا مَكَانُكَ [Nothing fixed me in this country, or town, &c., but thy being in it]. (TA.) And اقرّ الطَّيْرَ فِى وَكْرِهِ He left the birds to rest in their nest. (Msb.) And اقرّ العَامِلَ عَلَى عَمَلِهِ He left the agent to rest, [or settled, fixed, or established, him, or made him to continue, or confirmed him,] in his agency. (Msb.) [And اقرّهُ عَلَى قَوْلِهِ He left him at rest in his assertion, undisturbed, unopposed, or uncontradicted; he confirmed him in it; he confessed him to be correct respecting it. Thus the verb is used in the phrase اقرّهُ عَلَى ذٰلِكَ in the Expos. of the Jel., xxxviii. 22: and in many other instances.] You say also الشَّىْءَ ↓ قرّر , inf. n. تَقْرِيرٌ, meaning, He put the thing in its قَرَار [or resting-place]. (S.) And قَرَّرْتُ عِنْدَهُ الخَبَرَ حَتَّى ↓ ا@سْتَقَرَّ [I established the information in his mind, so that it became established]. (S.) And أَقْرَرْتُ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ, inf. n. تَقْرَارَةٌ and تَقِرَّةٌ, [both of which inf. ns. properly belong to the synonymous form قَرَّرْتُ, (as Lumsden has remarked, in his Arabic Grammar, page 241,) I settled, fixed, established, &c., this thing, or affair; or I confirmed it.] (S.) And it is said in a trad. of 'Othmán, أَقِرُّوا الأَنْفُسَ حَتَّى تَزْهَقَ Make ye the souls of the beasts which ye slaughter to become at rest, [and wait ye] that they may depart, and do not hasten to skin the beasts, nor to cut them in pieces. (TA.) And in a trad. of Aboo-Moosà, أُقِرَّتْ الصَّلَاةُ بِا@لْبِرِّ والزَّكَاةِ Prayer is established and connected with برّ and زكاة [i. e., benevolent treatment of others or piety or obedience to God, and the giving of the alms required by the law]. (TA.) ― -b2- أَقْرَرْتُ الكَلَامَ لِفُلَانٍ I explained the saying, or speech, or language, to such a one, so that he knew it. (TA.) -A2- أَقَرَّ He became quiet and submissive. (TA, from a trad.) -A3- اقرّ بِهِ, (S, Msb,) inf. n. إِِقْرَارٌ, (M, K,) He acknowledged, or confessed, it, (S, M, Msb, K,) namely, the truth, or a right, or due, (S, M, K,) or a thing. (Msb.) إِِقْرَارٌ signifies The affirming a thing either with the tongue or with the mind, or with both. (ElBasáïr.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] أَقَرَّتِ النَّاقَةُ, [as though signifying The she-camel acknowledged, or confessed, herself to be pregnant;] the she-camel's pregnancy became apparent: (IKtt, TA;) or became established; became a positive fact: (ISk, S, K:) or the she-camel conceived; became pregnant. (IAar.) -A4- اقرّ He entered upon a time of cold. (M, K.) ― -b2- اقرّهُ ا@للّٰهُ, (inf. n. إِِقْرَارٌ, Msb,) God caused him to be affected, or smitten, by the cold. (S, * M, Msb, K.) One does not say قَرَّهُ (M, K) ― -b3- اقرّ ا@للّٰهُ عَيْنُهُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and بِعَيْنِهِ, (M, K,) (tropical:) God made his eye to become cool, or refrigerated, or refreshed, (Msb, TA,) by happiness, or joy, in consequence of his having offspring, or of some other event: (Msb:) or cooled his tears; for the tear of happiness, or joy, is cool: (As:) or gave him to such an extent that his eye became quiet (حَتَّى تَقَرَّ), and was not raised towards him who was above him, (S, TA,) or towards that which was above it: (L:) or caused him to meet with that which contented him, so that his eye became quiet (تَقَرَّ) in looking at other things; an explanation approved and adopted by Abu-l-'Abbás: (L, TA:) or caused his eye to sleep, by making him to meet with happiness, or joy, that dispelled his sleeplessness. (Aboo-Tálib.) You say also يُقِرُّ بِعَيْنِى أَنْ أَرَاكَ [It refreshes my eye, &c., to see thee]. (TA.) See also 1.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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