comparison

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He connected, coupled, or conjoined, a thing with a thing. (S.)

, (S,) inf. n. قِرَانٌ, (S, K,) and مُقَارَنَةٌ, (K,) He associated with him; became his companion. (S, K.)

He gave of a thing two by two. (A 'Obeyd in T, in art. بد, voce أَبَدَّ.) See أَبَدَّ. ― -b2- أَقْرَنَ الشَّىْءَ, (Msb,) or لِلشَّىْءِ, (K,) [the latter more probably right,] He was able and strong to do, or effect, &c., the thing; (Msb, K;) He had the requisite ability and strength for it.

One who opposes, or contends with, another, in science, or in fight, &c.; (Msb;) an opponent; a competitor; an adversary; an antagonist: or one's equal, or match, in courage, (S, K,) or generally, one's equal, match, or fellow. (K.)

One's equal in age; syn. لِدَةٌ, (K,) or تِرْبٌ: with fet-h when relating to age, and with kesr when relating to fighting and the like. (Har, pp. 572,64.) ― -b2- قَرْنٌ, (JK, Msb,) or قَرْنٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ, (S,) [A generation of men;] people of one time (JK, * S, Ez-Zejjájee, Msb,) succeeding another قَرْن, (JK,) among whom is a prophet, or class of learned men, whether its years be many or few. (Ez-Zejjájee, Msb.) ― -b3- قَرْنٌ The part of the head of a human being which in an animal is the place whence the horn grows: (K:) or the side, (S,) or upper side, (K,) of the head: (S, K:) or [more exactly the temporal ridge (see صُدْغٌ) i. e.] the edge of the هَامَة (which is the middle and main part of the head [i. e. of the cranium]), on the right and on the left. (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán. ”) ― -b4- قُرُونٌ of the head: see a verse cited voce خَيَّطَ. قُرُونٌ of horses: see أَجَمُّ. ― -b5- قَرْنٌ of a solid hoof: see جُبَّةٌ. ― -b6- قَرْنٌ of a desert, the most elevated part. (TA in art. جحف.) ― -b7- قَرْنُ أَعْفَرَ, as meaning A spear-head, see أَعْفَرُ. ― -b8- قَرْنٌ A pod, like that of the locust tree: pl. قُرُونٌ. Occurring often in the work of AHn on plants, and in the TA, &c. See غَافٌ. ― -b9- قَرْنٌ [A thing] in a she-camel, which is like the عَفَل in a woman; and which is cauterized with heated stones. (AA, TA, in art. عفل.) ― -b10- قَرْنٌ An issue of sweat: pl. قُرُونٌ: see two ex. voce سَنَّ.

and ↓ قِرَانٌ A cord of twisted bark which is bound upon the neck of each of the ploughing bulls (K, * TA) and to the middle of which is then bound the لُوأمَة [or whole apparatus of the plough]. (TA.) See فَدَّانٌ. ― -b2- [The pl.] أَقْرَانٌ Sons of one mother from different men. (TA, voce عَيْنٌ.) ― -b3- قَرَنٌ: see جَعْبَةٌ.

The “ horn ” of the uterus.

: see قَرَنٌ.

: see بَرَمٌ.

An associate; a comrade; a companion. (S, K.) قَرِينَةٌ A connexion; relation. ― -b2- قَرِينَةٌ [A clause of rhyming prose, considered as connected with the similar clause preceding or following; the two together being termed قرينتان]. (Har, pp. 9, 23.) ― -b3- Also, A context, in an absolute sense. ― -b4- ↓ أَسْمَحَتْ قَرُونَتُهُ and قَرِينَتُهُ: see 1 in art. سمح.

: see قرِينٌ.