قر

قُرٌّ ذ i. q. قَرَارٌ [q. v.] (S, M, K) and مُسْتَقَرٌّ (TA) [ and مَقَرٌّ]. -A2- Also, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ قَرٌّ, (Lh, Kt,) which latter form, it is said, must be used in conjunction with [its contr.] حَرٌّ, for the sake of assimilation, (TA,) and ↓ قِرٌّ, (Kt,) Cold; coldness; chill; chilness; coolness; syn. بَرْدٌ; (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ قِرَّةٌ: (S:) or قُرٌّ signifies cold; &c., in winter; (M, K;) whereas بَرْدٌ is in winter and summer: (M:) and ↓ قِرَّةٌ, cold, &c., by which a man (M, K) or other creature, (M,) is affected, or smitten. (M, K.) You say دَخَلُوا فِى القُرِّ They entered upon the [ time of ] cold. (M.) And لَا حَرَّ وَلَا قَرَّ Neither heat nor cold. (TA, from a trad.) And لَيْلَةٌ ↓ ذَاتُ قِرَّةٍ A night of cold. (TA.) And اشدُّ ↓ العَطَشِ حِرَّةٌ عَلَى قِرَّةٌ (S) The most severe of thirst is thirst in a cold day. (S, art. حر.) And sometimes the Arabs said ↓ أَجِدُ حِرَّةٌ تَحْتَ قِرَّةٌ (S) [ I experience ] thirst in a cold day. (ISd, in TA, art. حر.) [See this and other exs. in art. حر.) One says also ↓ ذَهَبَتْ قِرَّتُهَا, [meaning قِرَّةٌ العِلَّةِ,] The time of its access, or coming, meaning of the access, or coming, of the disease, [app., of the shivering-fit of an ague, (see عُرَوَاآءُ,)] departed: the [pronoun] ها refers to [the word] العِلَّة. (S.)