جهر

جَوْهَرٌ جوهر a word of well-known meaning, (Msb,) [a coll. gen. n., Jewels; precious stones; gems; pearls: any kind of jewel, precious stone, or gem: and also applied (as in the T, M, Mgh, Msb, and K, voce تِبْرٌ, q. v.,) to native ore: ] any stone from which is extracted, or elicited, anything by which one may profit: (K:) n. un. with ة: (S:) [pl. جَوَاهِرُ:] it is of the measure فَوْعَلُ, (Msb,) and is from الجَهْرُ signifying a thing's “ becoming exceedingly plain to be perceived by the sense of sight: ” (Er-Rághib, TA:) or it is of Persian origin, (TA,) arabicized, (S, TA,) [from Gَوْهَرْ,] accord. to most persons. (TA.) ― -b2- جَوْهَرُ سَيْفٍ The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, of a sword; syn. فِرِنْدٌ. (T and K voce فِرِنْدٌ.] ― -b3- جَوْهَرُ شَىْءٍ [ The essence of a thing; or that whereby a thing is what it is; the substance of a thing: the constituent of a thing; the material part thereof;] that upon which the natural con- stitution of a thing is as it were based; or of which its natural constitution is made to be; [or, as IbrD thinks to be meant in the K, the collective parts and materials of a thing, of which its natural constitution is moulded; ] expl. by مَاوُضِعَتْ عَلَيْهِ جِبِلَّتُهُ, (K,) or, as in some Lexicons, [as the JK and the Msb,] مَا خُلِقَتْ عَلَيْهِ جِبِلَّتُهُ [which is virtually the same]: (TA:) الجَوْهَرُ and الذَّاتُ and المَاهِيَّةُ and الحَقِيقَةُ are all syn. terms; and the first has other significations; but in the classical language it signifies الأَصْلُ, i. e., أَصْلُ المُرَكَّبَاتِ [ the original of compound things ]; and not what subsists by itself. (Kull.) ― -b4- [Hence, الجَوْهَرُ الفَرْدُ (assumed tropical:) The indivisible atom. ] ― -b5- In the conventional language of scholastic theology, جَوْهَرٌ signifies (tropical:) Substance, as opposed to accident; in which sense, some assert the word to be so much used as to be, in this sense, conventionally regarded as proper. (TA.) -A2- See also جَهْوَرٌ.