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جرح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

جَارِحَةٌ جارح جارحه جارحة sing. of جَوَارِحُ. (Mgh, L, Msb, TA.) ― -b2- The latter signifies (tropical:) Beasts, and birds, of prey; or that catch game; (S, A, * Mgh, L, Msb, K:) thus the falcon is a جارحة, and so is the dog trained for hunting, because it gains for its owner: (L:) and this appellation is applied alike to the male and the female, like رَاحِلَةٌ and رَاوِيَةٌ. (Msb.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The members, or limbs, of a man, with which things are gained or earned; (S, K, TA;) or with which one works; (A;) as the hands or arms, and the feet or legs: (S, A, K, TA:) because they gain, or earn, or do, good and evil. (TA.) ― -b4- [And (tropical:) The organs of the body: thus, for instance, جارحة is applied (in the Msb, art. بصر,) to the eye, which is termed (in the TA in that art.) the seeing جارحة (الجَارِحَةُ النَّاظِرَةُ).] ― -b5- Also (assumed tropical:) Mares: [and the like: ] because they bring gain to their owners by their breeding. (AA, T.) You say, مَا لَهُ جَارِحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) He possesses not a female beast that bears young: he possesses not that which makes gain. (TA.) And هٰذِهِ النَّاقَةُ مِنْ جَوَارِحِ المَالِ, and هذه الأَتَانُ, (K,) and هذه الفَرَسُ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) This she-camel, and this she-ass, and this mare, is young, unimpaired by age (مُقْبِلَةٌ [i. q. مُقْتَبَلَةٌ]) in the womb, (K, TA,) and in youthful vigour, and one of which the offspring is wished for. (TA.)

Derived headwords

جَارِحَةٌ
  1. 1.
الجَارِحَةُ النَّاظِرَةُ
مَا لَهُ جَارِحَةٌ
هٰذِهِ النَّاقَةُ مِنْ جَوَارِحِ المَالِ
هذه الأَتَانُ
هذه الفَرَسُ