جرر

جَرَّ

To drive camels, sheep, or goats gently while allowing them to graze as they move.

A conventional pastoral use.

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هَلُمَّ جَرًّا

To continue without interruption, up to the present.

An idiomatic expression meaning that something has continued from an earlier time until now.

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جَرَّ

To leave a continuous track or furrow by movement.

Used of a numerous army leaving an unbroken track and of horses furrowing the ground with their hoofs.

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جَرَّ

To commit a crime, offence, or injurious act against someone or oneself.

The action is understood as bringing the offence upon its object.

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جَرَّ

To exceed the usual period of pregnancy before giving birth.

Used of a female animal or a woman whose pregnancy continues beyond its expected term.

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جَرَّ

To become long, said of the night.

A figurative extension of prolonged duration.

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جَرَّ

To cause lasting rain in a place.

Used of a celestial occurrence said to bring enduring rainfall.

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جَارَهُ

To delay or defer someone by repeatedly promising payment later.

It may also involve putting off delivery of what is due and drawing the claimant from one place or arrangement to another.

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جَارَهُ

To commit an offence or inflict an injury against someone.

A reported lexical application distinct from the postponement sense.

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أَجَرَّهُ

To pierce someone with a spear and leave it lodged so that it is dragged along.

The object left in the victim is the thing being dragged.

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أَجَرَّهُ

To put a rope or halter around someone’s neck.

The rope is placed upon the neck as an act of leading or restraint.

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أَجَرَّهُ

To leave someone or an animal free to pasture or act as they please.

An idiomatic extension of making someone drag a rope or halter behind them.

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أَجَرَّهُ

To defer payment of a debt, leaving it outstanding.

A figurative use of prolonging or drawing something out.

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أَجَرَّهُ

To sing songs consecutively or without interruption.

The singer follows one song with another in succession.

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أَجَرَّ

To slit a young camel’s tongue and attach a piece of wood so that it cannot suckle.

A husbandry operation intended to prevent the weaned animal from nursing.

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أَجَرَّ

To prevent someone from speaking.

A figurative use of restraining or drawing back the tongue.

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أَجَرَّ

To become a deep, rope-drawn well.

An intransitive use applied to a well whose water is drawn from its depth.

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اِنْجَرَّ

To be dragged, drawn, pulled, or stretched; to trail along.

An intransitive or passive-resultative use.

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اِجْتَرَّ

To ruminate or chew the cud.

Used of camels and other cloven-hoofed animals that bring cud back from the stomach and chew it again.

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اِسْتَجْرَرَ

To give someone authority or power over oneself and submit to him.

A figurative use portraying oneself as subject to being dragged along.

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اِسْتَجْرَرَ

To refrain from suckling because of a purulent pustule, ulcer, or similar ailment.

Used of a young camel unable or unwilling to nurse because of an ailment in the mouth or elsewhere.

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جَرْجَرَ

To reiterate a cry or bray in the windpipe.

Especially used of the repeated voice of a stallion-camel.

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جَرْجَرَ

To make a repeated noise, cry, or clamour; to produce a sound in the throat.

Extended to beverages or fire that make a sound; the repeated or resonant character is central.

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جَرْجَرَ

To pour liquid down the throat or swallow it in successive gulps so that it makes a sound.

The action may be described as making the liquid gurgle in the throat or belly.

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جَرٌّ

The foot, base, or lowest part of a mountain.

A place-name-like extension of the idea of a lower tract or drawn-out base.

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جَرَّةٌ

An earthen jar or vessel made of potter’s clay.

The word may also denote an object made generally of clay; its plural includes جِرَارٌ.

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جُرَّةٌ

A wooden snare or trapping device for gazelles.

The device is a stick with a snare and cord, hidden or set so that the animal becomes entangled.

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جِرَّةٌ

A manner or mode of dragging, pulling, or stretching.

A verbal-noun sense describing the manner of the action.

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جِرَّةٌ

The stomach of a camel or other cloven-hoofed animal.

This is the primary anatomical sense recorded for the noun.

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جِرَّةٌ

The cud brought up from an animal’s stomach for chewing or rumination.

Used of the cud itself and, by extension, the act of chewing or ruminating.

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جِرَّةٌ

In idiomatic expressions, the grievance or matter held in one’s breast and brought into speech.

Expressions with عَلَى جِرَّتِهِ have variant explanations, including not harboring rancour and not concealing what one has within.

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جِرَّةٌ

A mouthful retained by a camel while it waits for its fodder.

The animal uses the mouthful to occupy itself until feed is brought.

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جَرُورٌ

A female that carries her pregnancy beyond the usual term.

Especially applied to a she-camel, with detailed terminology for the length of the delay.

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جَرُورٌ

A she-camel made to incline toward and suckle a young one that is not her own.

A husbandry practice involving the scent of the camel’s milk and the substitution of the young.

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جَرُورٌ

Refractory and unwilling to be led; or slow-moving.

Used of a horse or camel; the slowness may result from fatigue or shortness of step.

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جَرُورٌ

A woman crippled or unable to walk.

The designation is explained by her being dragged along the ground.

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جَرُورٌ

A deep well from which water is drawn by rope, pulley, or draft animal.

The bucket is drawn along the edge of the well’s mouth because of its depth.

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جَرِيرٌ

A rope, especially a leather nose-rein or neck-cord for a camel.

It may denote a camel’s rope corresponding to a horse’s headstall or rein.

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جِرَارَةٌ

The craft of making jars or earthen vessels; pottery-making.

A technical occupational or craft noun.

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جَرِيرَةٌ

A crime, sin, or punishable offence; an injurious act.

A noun for the offence a person incurs or brings upon himself or another.

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مِنْ جَرَّاكَ

Because of someone, on someone’s account, or for someone’s sake.

An idiomatic causal expression originally associated with an offence and extended to general causation.

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جِرِّيٌّ

The eel, or a scaleless fish.

The term may be applied more generally to a fish without scales.

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جِرِّيَّةٌ

The stomach, crop, or craw of a bird.

An anatomical noun synonymous with حَوْصَلَةٌ; it also occurs in an idiom meaning to eat something.

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جَرَّارٌ

A man who leads a thousand men.

A conventional designation based on leading a large body.

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جَرَّارٌ

A large, numerous, or heavily marching army or troop.

The expression may emphasize the mass of the army or the equipment it drags along.

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جَرَّارٌ

A potter or maker of jars and earthen vessels.

An occupational noun.

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جَرَّارَةٌ

A small, yellow female scorpion that drags its tail.

A highly venomous scorpion, named for its tail-dragging movement.

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جَرْجَرٌ

An iron implement or machine used for threshing reaped grain.

A technical agricultural term.

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جِرْجِرٌ

The bean or beans.

A dialectal usage reported for the speech of Iraq.

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جَرْجَرَةٌ

The repeated or gurgling sound made by a camel or by water entering the throat or belly.

A sound noun covering the camel’s reiterated cry and the sound of liquid swallowed in successive gulps.

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جَرْجَارٌ

A camel that repeatedly makes loud sounds or brays.

A descriptive noun for a noisy camel.

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جَرْجَارٌ

The sound of thunder.

A sound-based extension of the repeated roaring or rumbling sense.

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جَرْجَارٌ

A sweet-smelling plant or herb with a yellow flower.

A plant name with no further restriction supplied by the evidence.

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جُرْجُورٌ

A large or bulky camel; also a large herd or a complete hundred camels.

The noun may describe size, a collected group, or a full counted hundred.

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جِرْجِيرٌ

Rocket or eruca, including wild and garden varieties.

A well-known leguminous plant; the garden variety is distinguished from the wild variety.

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جَرْجَارَةٌ

A mill or millstone.

The name is explained by the sound made during grinding.

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جُرَاجِرٌ

A camel that drinks much.

Usually used in the plural expression for camels of this kind.

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جُرَاجِرٌ

Water that makes a noise as it flows or descends.

A sound-based descriptive usage.

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جَارٌّ

Dragging, drawing, or pulling.

The active participle of جَرَّ, used adjectivally or substantivally.

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جَارُّ الضَّبُعِ

Violent rain or a torrent that draws along the ground and everything in its path.

The expression literally evokes a torrent strong enough to draw a hyena from its hole.

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إِبِلٌ جَارَّةٌ

Working or burden-carrying camels.

The camels carry loads or are led by their nose-reins; this is distinct from camels kept for pasturing.

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لَا جَارَّ لِي

There is nothing in it to attract or profit me.

An idiomatic expression in which جَارٌّ denotes an inducement or advantage.

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جِوَرٌّ

Rain that draws everything along or causes vegetation to grow tall.

A dialectal or rare rain-related usage.

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جِوَرٌّ

A large, heavy bucket.

A specialized noun applied to a bulky bucket of the type called غَرْبٌ.

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جِوَرٌّ

A bulky camel or, with feminine marking, a bulky ewe.

An animal-descriptive usage.

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جَارَّةٌ

A road or route to water.

A substantivized feminine form.

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جَارُورٌ

A river or rivulet whose bed is formed by a torrent.

A watercourse noun derived from the idea of something being drawn or cut along.

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الأَجَرَّانِ

The jinn and humankind together.

A fixed dual expression for the two classes of beings.

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مَجَرٌّ

The place or track along which something has been dragged or drawn.

It may denote the visible trace left by a dragged object.

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مَجَرٌّ

A place of pasture.

A specialized substantival extension of the place or tract sense.

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مَجَرٌّ

A beam supporting the ends of rafters.

A technical architectural usage.

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المَجَرَّةُ

The Milky Way or a bright tract across the sky.

It may be conceived as the path of the stars or as a gate or tract in the heavens, named for its resemblance to a dragged track.

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