غرر

غَرَّ

To feed a young bird with the beak; of a male pigeon, to feed its female with the beak. Figuratively, to nourish or instruct someone with knowledge.

The figurative instructional use is an extension of the bird-feeding construction.

• Lane · entry 29002

غَرَّ

To be inexperienced or ignorant in practical affairs, or to act in a youthful or childish manner.

An intransitive use applied to a man, youth, or young person; the sources also mention acting childishly after previously possessing sound judgment.

• Lane · entry 29002

غَرَّ

To become white or acquire a white mark on the forehead or face.

Used of a horse or camel, and of the face when it becomes white.

• Lane · entry 29002

غَرَّ

To become eminent or noble.

A separate intransitive use reported of a person.

• Lane · entry 29002

غَرَّ

Of a grapevine, to become tall quickly.

A specialized botanical use.

• Lane · entry 29002

غَرَّ

To pour water into a receptacle, watering-trough, or waterskin.

Includes the imperative construction used for filling a trough or skin by putting it into water and throwing water into it.

• Lane · entry 29002

غَرَّرَ

To expose oneself or one's property to perdition, destruction, loss, or other serious risk without knowing the outcome; to endanger or hazard oneself.

Form II is used with the reflexive phrase بِـنَفْسِهِ and may also take property as its object.

• Lane · entry 29003

غَرَّرَ

To mark a horse with a white forehead blaze or other غُرَّة.

A specialized Form II use concerning the animal's facial marking.

• Lane · entry 29003

غَرَّرَ

Of a child's teeth, to show their points, emerge, or begin to grow.

The imagery is connected with the whiteness of the teeth becoming visible.

• Lane · entry 29003

غَرَّرَ

Of birds, to desire or attempt flight and raise their wings.

A specialized inchoative or preparatory use.

• Lane · entry 29003

غَرَّرَ

To fill a waterskin or water-container.

A Form II transitive use distinct from the Form I expression for pouring water into a receptacle.

• Lane · entry 29003

غَارَّتِ النَّاقَةُ

Of a she-camel, to become scant or deficient in milk, especially to draw up her milk after previously yielding it freely.

The use can describe withholding milk after delayed milking, fright, or another cause.

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غَارَّتِ السُّوقُ

Of a market, to become stagnant or dull in trade.

A figurative extension of the cessation or deficiency of flow, contrasted with a market that is flourishing.

• Lane · entry 29004

غَارٌّ

Of a male pigeon, to feed its female with the beak.

A conventional Form III construction concerning courtship or feeding between pigeons.

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أَغَرَّهُ

To embolden or encourage someone, possibly by deceiving him.

The lexical report is attributed to an authority and accompanied by a disputed interpretation of the cited poetic line; the meaning is therefore retained with that qualification.

• Lane · entry 29005

أَغَرَّهُ

To cause someone to fall into peril, danger, jeopardy, hazard, or risk.

A separate causative interpretation, though the source notes that it may derive from a disputed reading of the illustrative verse.

• Lane · entry 29005

اِغْتَرَّ

To become deceived or beguiled, and thereby to desire what is vain or false.

The verb may take بِـ to indicate the thing by which one is deceived.

• Lane · entry 29006

اِغْتَرَّ

To become negligent, inattentive, heedless, or unprepared, thinking oneself secure and therefore failing to remain on guard.

This is the resulting state associated with being deceived or falsely secure.

• Lane · entry 29006

اِغْتَرَّهُ

To come upon someone when he is negligent or unprepared, or to seek to take advantage of his negligence.

A transitive construction distinct from the intransitive state of becoming deceived.

• Lane · entry 29006

غَرْغَرَ

To gargle with water or medicine, causing it to move repeatedly in the throat without ejecting it or easily swallowing it.

A specialized reduplicated verb describing reciprocal movement in the throat.

• Lane · entry 29008

غَرْغَرَ

Of a cooking pot, to make a sound while boiling; of meat, to make a sound while broiling.

An imitative or sound-related use.

• Lane · entry 29008

غَرْغَرَ

To give up the spirit at death, apparently with a rattling sound in the throat.

A specialized physiological and death-related use.

• Lane · entry 29008

غَرْغَرَ

To reiterate or reverberate the voice in the throat.

Used of a speaker or pastor's voice and also in the reflexive form of the voice becoming reiterated.

• Lane · entry 29008
• Lane · entry 29009

غَرْغَرَ

To slaughter someone by cutting the throat or to pierce the throat with a spearhead.

A transitive physical attack directed at the throat.

• Lane · entry 29008

غَرْغَرَ

To break the nasal bone or the neck or mouth of a flask or bottle.

A specialized breaking use associated with the throat or opening of an object.

• Lane · entry 29008

تَغَرْغَرَ

Of water, to come and go repeatedly in the eye.

A reflexive or iterative use describing repeated movement of fluid.

• Lane · entry 29009

غَرٌّ

A crease, wrinkle, fold, or pleat in skin, a garment, or cloth; by extension, the original fold or state in which something is left.

Includes expressions for folding cloth according to its original crease and for leaving a person as he is without disclosing his condition.

• Lane · entry 29010

غَرٌّ

A fissure or cleft in the earth or ground.

A nominal geographical use.

• Lane · entry 29010

غَرٌّ

A rivulet or narrow stream of water in the land.

The term is explained as referring to a stream that cleaves the earth.

• Lane · entry 29010

غُرُورٌ

The streaks or lines of a road.

A plural or collective nominal use.

• Lane · entry 29010

الغَرَّانِ

The two lines along the sides of the lower part of an arrowhead or blade.

A specialized term for paired lines on the iron head of an arrow or similar implement.

• Lane · entry 29010

غَرٌّ

The extremity or point of a tooth.

The plural is reported in the same lexical family as the crease and line senses.

• Lane · entry 29010

غُرُورٌ

Food with which a bird feeds its young by its bill.

A poetic figurative expression describes exhausting camels as though their bird-food had been consumed.

• Lane · entry 29010

غِرٌّ

An inexperienced, simple, or unworldly person who is ignorant of practical affairs and may act childishly.

Applied to a man, youth, girl, or young woman; the source also records the sense of a young woman inexperienced in matters of love.

• Lane · entry 29011

غِرٌّ

A person who submits to being deceived.

A nominal personal description, distinct from merely being inexperienced.

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غُرَّةٌ

Whiteness or clearness of complexion; especially a white blaze or mark on the forehead or face of a horse, camel, or dog.

The animal marking may be a general term for different shapes and sizes of white facial marks; the expression can also describe conspicuous fairness or innocence.

• Lane · entry 29012

غُرَّةٌ

The first appearance or commencement of a month, especially the night or first days when the new moon is seen; by extension, the beginning of Islam or of anything.

The meaning is derived from the conspicuous first appearance of a white mark; the term may also denote the aspect or appearance of the new moon.

• Lane · entry 29012

غُرَّةٌ

The whiteness of the teeth or the first tooth to appear.

A specialized bodily use connected with visible whiteness and emergence.

• Lane · entry 29012

غُرَّةٌ

The head or first emerging part of a plant.

An assumed-tropical extension of the first-appearance sense.

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غُرَّةٌ

The visible appearance of light, daybreak, or a spectacle that becomes manifest.

A figurative extension of conspicuous whiteness or first appearance.

• Lane · entry 29012

غُرَّةٌ

A person's face, forehead, or aspect.

A figurative use based on the face as the conspicuous front or visible mark of a person.

• Lane · entry 29012

غُرَّةٌ

An extended washing of the fore part of the head and adjacent limbs in ablution.

A technical ritual expression concerning the extent of washing beyond the ordinary minimum; the reported descriptions differ in the precise limbs included.

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غُرَّةٌ

A noble, eminent, chief, or lord of a people.

A figurative personal use derived from conspicuous excellence.

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غُرَّةٌ

The best, chiefest, most precious, or most excellent part of property or goods; in a legal compensation context, a high-quality male or female slave.

The legal use concerning destruction of a fetus denotes a compensatory person or value; authorities differ over the exact valuation and whether whiteness is required.

• Lane · entry 29012

غُرَّةٌ

Goodness and righteous conduct.

An assumed-tropical moral extension of the excellence or conspicuous virtue sense.

• Lane · entry 29012

غِرَّةٌ

Negligence, inattention, inadvertence, heedlessness, or inexperience in practical affairs.

Includes the idiom عَلَى غِرَّةٍ, unexpectedly or on an occasion of negligence, and the related sense of inexperience.

• Lane · entry 29013

غِرَّةٌ

Boldness or presumptuous security against God.

Used in the construction غِرَّةٌ بِاللّٰهِ.

• Lane · entry 29013

غَرَرٌ

Peril, danger, hazard, or risk arising from an uncertain outcome; a transaction in which the thing may or may not exist, or whose reality is concealed by its outward appearance.

The term is especially used in the legal expression بيع الغرر, including an unreliable sale or a bond lacking security and confidence.

• Lane · entry 29015

غِرَارٌ

Paucity or deficiency of a camel's milk.

The same deficiency metaphor extends to little sleep and other forms of incompleteness, but this item records the milk sense.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

Little or insufficient sleep.

A figurative extension of deficiency or scantness.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

Deficiency or incomplete performance in prayer or salutation, including incomplete bowing, prostration, purification, or abbreviated forms of greeting and reply.

A technical construction in the prohibition لا غِرَارَ في صلاة ولا تسليم; authorities report variant interpretations of the salutation clause.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

Haste or acting with too little consideration.

Used in expressions for coming to or meeting someone hastily.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

A short stay or a small amount of time.

Used of remaining somewhere briefly or of a period measured by comparison with a month.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

A way, course, mode, or manner; a repeated pattern or sequence.

Used of arrows shot in one course, children born successively in one pattern, or structures made according to one manner.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

The model or pattern according to which arrowheads are fashioned and straightened.

A technical object-making use distinct from the general sense of way or manner.

• Lane · entry 29016

غِرَارٌ

The point, edge, or cutting extremity of a spear, arrow, sword, or anything possessing an edge.

The dual may denote the two sides or edges of a blade or arrowhead.

• Lane · entry 29016

غَرُورٌ

A medicine or preparation with which one gargles.

A nominal instrument or preparation term, compared with words for medicines taken by other routes.

• Lane · entry 29017

غَرِيرٌ

A man deceived into marrying a woman whom he believes to be free and discovers to be enslaved.

A specialized social application of the general sense of being deceived.

• Lane · entry 29019

غَرِيرٌ

An unexpectedly knowledgeable informant who can state the true condition of an affair without prior preparation.

In the expression أَنَا غَرِيرُكَ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ, authorities also report an alternative interpretation in which the speaker is a deceived informant passing on false information.

• Lane · entry 29019

غَرِيرٌ

A person who cautions or protects another from being deceived by someone.

Used in the construction أَنَا غَرِيرُكَ مِنْهُ, literally presenting the speaker as a safeguard against that person.

• Lane · entry 29019

غَرِيرٌ

A surety, sponsor, or guarantor.

A conventional extension of standing in place of, or being liable for, another person.

• Lane · entry 29019

غَرِيرٌ

A life in which one is not made to live in fear or apprehension.

A figurative description of a secure or carefree life.

• Lane · entry 29019

غَرِيرٌ

Good disposition or good nature.

A figurative moral use; the expression contrasting a departing good disposition with an arriving bad one is proverbial.

• Lane · entry 29019

غِرَارَةٌ

A sack or large bag for straw and similar material.

The lexical source treats this as an Arabicized or borrowed word and distinguishes it from the vulgar variant in pronunciation.

• Lane · entry 29020

غَارٌّ

Deceiving, beguiling, or causing someone to desire what is vain or false; a deceiver.

An active participial or adjectival description of the agent of deception.

• Lane · entry 29021

غَارٌّ

Negligent, inattentive, inadvertent, heedless, or unprepared.

A separate adjectival branch related to inexperience and lack of vigilance.

• Lane · entry 29021

غَرْغَرَةٌ

A rough or rattling sound like that produced by gargling water.

A sound noun associated with the reduplicated throat action.

• Lane · entry 29022

غَرْغَرَةٌ

The sound of a cooking pot when it boils.

A transferred sound description.

• Lane · entry 29022

غَرْغَرَةٌ

The repeated movement or rattling of the spirit in the throat.

A physiological and death-related sound noun.

• Lane · entry 29022

غَرْغَرَةٌ

An imitative word for the cry of a pastor or a similar sound.

An onomatopoeic use.

• Lane · entry 29022

أَغَرُّ

More or most negligent, inattentive, heedless, or unprepared.

An elative adjectival form of the negligence branch.

• Lane · entry 29024

أَغَرُّ

White or fair in appearance; applied to a person, thing, or group.

Includes a white countenance, white people, and the expression for bright or white days.

• Lane · entry 29024

أَغَرُّ

Of a horse or camel, possessing a white forehead blaze or other غُرَّة.

The feminine form is used for a female animal; the blaze may have several recognized shapes.

• Lane · entry 29024

الغَرَّاءُ

A certain black bird with a white head, applied to either sex.

A specialized zoological use derived from the color sense.

• Lane · entry 29024

أَغَرُّ

Of a man, having a beard covering nearly the whole face except for a small area.

A figurative appearance-based use likening the face to a marked forehead.

• Lane · entry 29024

أَغَرُّ

Generous, illustrious, eminent, noble, or chief among one's people.

Applied to a man or woman of rank; the meaning is a figurative extension of conspicuous excellence.

• Lane · entry 29024

أَغَرُّ

Intensely hot or sun-bright, especially of a day or the heat of midday.

A figurative use associated with brightness and the force of the sun.

• Lane · entry 29024

غَرَّاءُ

A year in which there is no rain.

An assumed-tropical adjectival use recorded in a related lexical citation.

• Lane · entry 29024

مُغَارٌّ

A she-camel having little or lost milk, or one that draws up her milk after previously yielding it freely.

The loss or withholding may be attributed to fright, disease, dislike of the young, or another cause.

• Lane · entry 29026

مُغَارٌّ

Niggardly or tenacious in withholding what is held, especially of a hand or person.

A figurative extension of a she-camel withholding milk.

• Lane · entry 29026