qarīḥa

talent, natural gift, genius

قَرِيحَة

Word

Noun · pattern فَعِيلَة

Root

ق ر ح

Forms

Plural
قَرائِح

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وجعلوه ديواناً لأخبارهم وحكمهم وشرفهم ومحكاً لقرائحهم في إصابة المعاني وإجادة الأساليب.

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • قَرَحَهُ Form I He wounded him
    , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, *) aor. , (Msb, K,) inf. n. قَرْحٌ (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb) and قُرْحٌ, (A,) or the latter is a simple subst., (L, Msb,) He wounded him; syn. جَرَحَهُ. (S, Mgh, Msb, K. *) ― -b2- قَرَحَ بِيأْرًا: see 8. ― -b3- And قُرِحَ said of an arrow: see 8. ― -b4- قُرِحَ said of a camel, He was attacked by the disease termed قُرْحَة [q. v.]; as also ↓ قُرِّحَ. (L.) ― -b5- قَرَحَهُ بِالحَقِّ, (S, A, L, K, [in some copies of the K قرّحهُ,]) inf. n. قَرْحٌ, (S,) (tropical:) He accused him to his face (اِسْتَقْبَلَهُ) with truth: (S, A, L, K:) or [simply] he accused him (رَمَاهُ) with truth. (L.) See an ex. voce قُرْحَانٌ. [See also 3.] -A2- قَرَحَ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. , (A, Msb, K,) inf. n. قُرُوحٌ; (S, A, K;) and قَرِحَ, aor. , inf. n. قَرَحٌ; and ↓ اقرح; (K;) the last mentioned by Lh, but bad, or of weak authority, and rejected; (TA;) said of a horse, (A, K,) or of a solid-hoofed animal, (S, Msb,) He finished teething, (S, Msb, K,) completing his fifth year: (S, Msb:) or became in the state corresponding to that of the camel that is termed بَازِلٌ: or shed [his corner-nipper, i. e.] the tooth next after the رَبَاعِيَة: (K:) when a horse's nipper that is next to the central pair of nippers falls out, and a new tooth grows in its place, he is termed رَبَاعٍ: this is when he has completed his fourth year: and when the time of his قُرُوح comes, [the corner-nipper which is] the tooth next after the رَبَاعِيَة falls out, and his نَاب grows in its place: [but by the ناب (which more properly means the tusk, and which does protrude at this time,) must be here meant the permanent corner-nipper, corresponding to the ناب of a human being:] this tooth is his ↓ قَارِح: no tooth is shed, nor is any bred, after قُرُوح: and when the horse has entered his sixth year, you say of him قَدْ قَرَحَ: (IAar, T:) one says أَجْذَعَ المُهْرُ, and أَثْنَى, and أَرْبَعَ, and قَرَحَ; the last, only, without ا: and of every solid-hoofed animal one says يَقْرَحُ; and of [the camel, or] every animal that has a foot of the kind termed خُفّ, يَبْزُلُ; and of every animal that has a divided hoof, يَصْلَغُ. (S.) [See also قَارِحٌ.] ― -b2- And قَرَحَ نَابُهُ His باب [here meaning permanent cornernipper as above] grew forth. (A.) ― -b3- [Hence] one says also قَرَحَتْ سِنُّ الصَّبِىِّ (tropical:) The tooth of the young male child was about, or ready, to grow forth. (A.) ― -b4- قَرَحَتْ, (S, K, TA,) aor. , (S, TA,) inf. n. قُرُوحٌ (S, K, TA) and قِرَاحٌ, (TA,) said of a she-camel, She was, or became, in a manifest state of pregnancy: (S, K, TA:) or began to be in a state of pregnancy: or began to show a sign of pregnancy by raising her tail: (TA:) or was in a state in which she was not supposed to be pregnant, and did not give a sign of it with her tail, until her pregnancy became evident in the appearance of her belly. (Lth, TA.) [See also قَارِحٌ.] -A3- قَرِحَ, aor. , (S, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. قَرَحٌ, (S, A, * Msb, K, TA, [accord. to the CK, app. قَرْحٌ, for the v. is there said to be like سَمِعَ, but this is wrong,]) He, (a man, Msb, K, *) or it, (his skin, S, A,) broke out with قُرُوح [i. e. purulent pustules]; (S, A, Msb, K;) and [in like manner] ↓ تقرّح it (his body) broke out, or became affected, therewith. (S.) ― -b2- And [hence] one says, قَرِحَ قَلْبُ الرَّجُلِ مِنَ الحُزْنِ (assumed tropical:) [The heart of the man became as though it were ulcerated by grief]. (L.) ― -b3- قَرِحَ, aor. , inf. n. قَرَحٌ, said of a horse, He had a white mark in his face, such as is termed قُرْحَة. (IAar, S.)
  • قرّحهُ Form II He wounded him much, or in many places
    He wounded him much, or in many places. (Msb.) ― -b2- قُرِّحَ said of a camel: see 1, near the beginning. ― -b3- [قرّحهُ بِالحَقِّ in some copies of the K is a mistranscription; the verb in this phrase being without teshdeed.] ― -b4- قرّح الوَشْمَ He pricked, or punctured, the وشم [or tattoo] with the needle. (A.) ― -b5- And [the inf. n.] التَّقْرِيحُ signifies التَّشْوِيكُ [by which may be meant The pricking with a thorn: or, as seems to be not improbable from what here follows, it may be from شوّك الزَّرْعُ, q. v.]. (TA.) ― -b6- قرّح, (A,) inf. n. تَقْرِيحٌ, (TA,) said of the [plant called] عَرْفَج, means (tropical:) It put forth its first growth. (A, TA. *) And قرّح الشَّجَرُ (tropical:) The trees put forth the heads [or extremities] of their leaves. (A.) Accord. to AHn, التَّقْرِيحُ signifies (assumed tropical:) The first vegetation of herbs, or leguminous plants, that grow from grain, or seed: and the growing of the stalk of herbs, or leguminous plants; i. e. the appearing of the stem thereof: IAar uses the phrase يَنْبُتُ صُلْبًا ↓ البَقْلُ مُقْتَرِحًا [as though meaning the herbs, or leguminous plants, grow putting forth the stem in a hard, or firm, state]; but it should be ↓ مُقَرِّحًا, unless ↓ اِقْتَرَحَ be a dial. var. of قَرَّحَ: or it may be that ↓ مُقْتَرِحًا here means standing upright upon the stem thereof. (TA.) تَقْرِيحُ الأَرْضِ signifies The land's beginning to give growth to plants, or herbage. (TA.)
  • قارحهُ Form III He faced him, confronted him, or encountered him
    , (K,) inf. n. مُقَارَحَةٌ, (S, K,) (tropical:) He faced him, confronted him, or encountered him. (S, * A, * K.) You say, لَقِيتُهُ مُقَارَحَةً (tropical:) I met him face to face. (S, A.)
  • اقرحهُ ٱللّٰهُ Form IV God caused his skin to break out with
    God caused his skin to break out with قُرُوح [or purulent pustules]. (S.) ― -b2- And مَا زِلْتُ آكُلُ الوَرَقَ حَتَّى أَقْرَحَ شَفَتِى [app. I ceased not to eat the leaves until my lip broke out with purulent pustules, or sores]. (A. [So accord. to two copies: but perhaps correctly أُقْرِحَ.]) ― -b3- And اقرحوا They had their cattle attacked by [what is termed] القَرْح [which may here mean purulent pustules, or sores]: (S, L:) or they had their camels attacked by the severe and destructive mange or scab termed القَرْح (K) or القُرْح. (L. [But see قَرْحٌ.]) -A2- See also 1, first quarter.
  • تَقَرَّحَ Form V He prepared himself for him, or it, with evil intent
    see 1, near the end. -A2- تقرّح لَهُ (K, TA) بِالشَّرِّ (TA) i. q. تَهَيَّأَ [app. He prepared himself for him, or it, with evil intent]: and so تَقَذَّحَ and تَقَدَّحَ [if these be not mistranscriptions]. (TA.)
  • اقترح رَكِيَّةً Form VIII He dug a well
    (A) or بِيأْرًا, (K,) and ↓ قَرَحَهَا, (A, K,) He dug a well (A, K) in a place in which one had not been dug, (A,) or in a place wherein water was not [as yet] found. (K.) ― -b2- اُقْتُرِحَ and ↓ قُرِحَ, said of an arrow, (assumed tropical:) It was begun to be made. (TA.) ― -b3- اقترح الجَمَلَ (tropical:) He rode the camel before it had been ridden [by any other person]. (S, A, K. *) ― -b4- And اقترح (tropical:) He originated, invented, or excogitated, a thing; made it, did it, produced it, or caused it to be or exist, for the first time; (IAar, Msb, K, TA;) spontaneously, without his having heard it; (IAar, TA;) or without there having been any precedent. (Msb.) (assumed tropical:) He elicited a thing, without having heard it. (K.) And (tropical:) He uttered, or composed, a speech, or discourse, or the like, extemporaneously; without premeditation. (S, A, K, TA.) ― -b5- Also (tropical:) He chose for himself, took in preference, or selected. (IAar, L, K.) Hence one says, اقترح عَلَيْهِ صَوْتَ كَذَا وَكَذَا (assumed tropical:) He desired of him in preference such and such an air, or such and such a tune or song. (IAar, L.) And one says, أَنَا أَوَّلُ مَنِ ٱقْتَرَحَ مَوَدَّةَ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) I am the first [who has chosen for himself the love, or affection, of such a one, or] who has taken such a one as a friend. (A.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) He exercised his authority, or judgment, (K, TA,) عَلَيْهِ over him: (TA:) or he demanded some particular thing of some particular person by the exercise of his authority, or judgment, (El-Beyhakee, TA, and Har * p. 142,) and with ungentleness, roughness, or severity. (Har ibid.) And اقترح عَلَيْهِ بِكَذَا (tropical:) He exercised his authority, or judgment, over him, in such a thing, and asked without consideration. (TA.) And اقترح عَلَيْهِ شَيْيأًا (tropical:) He asked of him a thing without consideration. (S, A.) -A2- See also 2, last sentence but one.
  • قَرْحٌ A wound
    and ↓ قُرْحٌ A wound; (L;) the bite of a weapon, and of a similar thing that wounds the body: (L, K: [but in some copies of the K, for عَضُّ السِّلَاحِ وَنَحْوِهِ مِمَّا يَجْرَحُ البَدَنَ (which is the reading in the CK), we find عضّ السلاح وَنَحْوُهُ ممّا يَخْرُجُ بِالبَدَنِ, and the L and TA combine the two readings, the latter whereof gives a second signification, which will be found below:]) i. q. جُرْحٌ [with which جَرْحٌ is held by many to be syn.]: (TA:) they are two dial. vars., (S, Msb,) like ضَعْفٌ and ضُعْفٌ, (S,) and جَهْدٌ and جُهْدٌ, (Fr, Msb, TA,) and وَجْدٌ and وُجْدٌ; (Fr, TA;) the former of the dial. of El-Hijáz: (Msb:) or the former is an inf. n. and the latter is a simple subst.: (L, Msb:) or the former signifies as above; and the latter signifies its pain: (A:) or the latter seems to bear this latter signification; and the former, to signify wounds themselves: (Yaakoob, TA:) [and the like is said in the L and K:]) [and thus used in a pl. sense, the former is a coll. gen. n.;] and its n. un. is ↓ قَرْحَةٌ; and pl. قُرُوحٌ: (L:) one says, بِهِ قُرْحٌ مِنْ قَرْحٍ In him is pain from a wound; (A;) or from wounds. (L.) ― -b2- قَرْحٌ also signifies Pustules, or small swellings, when they have become corrupt; (L, K;) [i. e. purulent pustules; and imposthumes, ulcers, or sores: and so ↓ قُرْحٌ accord. to the L and some copies of the K, as shown above; but this seems to be of doubtful authority: قَرْحٌ in this sense is a coll. gen. n.:] its n. un. is ↓ قَرْحَةٌ; and pl. قُرُوحٌ. (S.) Imra-el-Keys (the poet, TA) was called ذُو القُرُوحِ because the King of the Greeks sent to him a poisoned shirt, from the wearing of which his body became affected with purulent pustules, or ulcers, or sores, (تَقَرَّحَ,) and he died: (S, K, * TA:) or, as some say, he was called ذُو الفُرُوجٍ, with ف and ج; because he left only daughters. (Es-Suyootee, TA.) ― -b3- Also, (accord. to the K,) or ↓ قُرْحٌ, (as in the L,) A severe scab or mange, that destroys young weaned camels; (L, K;) or that attacks young weaned camels, and from which they scarcely ever, or never, recover: so says Lth: Az, however, says that this is a mistake; but that قُرْحَةٌ signifies a certain disease that attacks camels, expl. below. (L.) -A2- See also قَرِيحٌ.
  • قُرْحٌ He is in the first part of his age
    : see the next preceding paragraph, in three places. -A2- See also قَرِيحَةٌ in two places. [Hence] one says, هُوَ فِى قُرْحِ سِنِّهِ (tropical:) He is in the first part of his age. (TA.) أَنَا فِى قُرْحِ الثَّلَاثِينَ (tropical:) I am in the beginning of the thirtieth [year] was said by an Arab of the desert to IAar, who had asked him his age. (TA.) And القُرْحُ, (K,) by some written القُرَحُ [pl. of ↓ القُرْحَةُ], (MF, TA,) signifies Three nights (K, TA) of the first part (TA) of the month. (K, TA.)
  • قَرَحٌ state (in a camel) of having never had the mange, or scab: and (in a child) of having never been attacked by the...
    a subst. signifying The state (in a camel) of having never had the mange, or scab: and (in a child) of having never been attacked by the small-pox. (S.)
  • قَرِحٌ breaking out with
    A man, (Msb,) or a man's skin, (S,) breaking out with قُرُوح [or purulent pustules]. (S, Msb.)
  • قَرْحَةٌ Open entry
    : see قَرْحٌ (of which it is the n. un.) in two places: -A2- and see also فَرْجَةٌ.
  • قُرْحَةٌ A disease that attacks camels, consisting in
    A disease that attacks camels, consisting in قُرُوح [or purulent pustules] in the mouth, in consequence of which the lip hangs down; not scab, or mange. (Az, L, TA.) [See also قَرْحٌ, near the end.] -A2- Also A غُرَّة [meaning star, or blaze, or white mark,] in the middle of the forehead of a horse: (T, L:) or what is less than a غُرَّة in the face of a horse: (S, K:) or it is a whiteness in the forehead of a horse (Mgh) of the size of a dirhem, or smaller than it; (AO, Mgh, TA;) whereas the غُرَّة is larger than a dirhem: (AO, TA:) or what is like a small dirhem between a horse's eyes: (En-Nadr, TA:) or any whiteness, in the face of a horse, which stops short of reaching the place of the halter upon the nose; differently distinguished in relation to its form, as being round, or triangular, or four-sided, or elongated, or scanty: (L, TA:) [and it is also applied to a white mark upon the face of the common fly: (see قَدُوحٌ:) the pl. is قُرَحٌ, like غُرَرٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence] one says, هُوَ قَرْحَةُ أَصْحَابِهِ i. e. غُرَّتُهُمْ [meaning (tropical:) He is the noble, or eminent, one of his companions; or the chief, or lord, of them]. (A.) ― -b3- And [hence, likewise,] قُرْحَةٌ signifies also (tropical:) The first, or commencement, of the [rain called] وَسْمِىّ; (A;) and of the [season called] رَبِيع; or of the شِتَآء. (K.) ― -b4- See also قُرْحٌ.

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