برى

بَرَّاآءٌ براآء A maker of arrows, who forms, or fashions, them by cutting; who shapes them out, or pares them: or who does so completely: (K:) and a maker of spindles, who forms, or fashions, them by cutting: and a cutter, or parer, of aloes-wood, that is used for fumigation: (TA:) [and in like manner, قِسِىٍ ↓ بَارِى a fashioner, or shaper, of bows: whence the saying,] أَعْطِ القَوْسَ بَارِيَهَا [ Give thou the bow to its fashioner ]; meaning (assumed tropical:) commit thou thine affair to him who will execute it well: a prov. (Har p. 68. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 98.])