قرث

بُسْرٌ قَرِيثَاآءُ ذ , (Ks, S, O, K,) with the lengthened alif and without tenween, (Ks, S, O,) and ↓ قَرَاثَاآءُ; (O, K;) and تَمْرٌ قَرِيثَاآءُ and ↓ قَرَاثَاآءُ: (Lh, K:) and نَخْلٌ قَرِيثَاآءُ (Ks, S, O, K) and ↓ قَرَاثَاآءُ: (K:) قَرِيثَاآء is [thus] used as an epithet, and it is also used as the complement of a prefixed noun; [so that one says also بُسْرُ قَرِيثَاآءَ, and app. ↓ قَرَاثَاآءَ likewise, and each in like manner with تَمْرُ and with نَخْلُ prefixed;] and it is dualized and is pluralized; and there is no word like it in form, except كَرِيثَاآء, in which the ك is app. a substitute [for ق]; (ISd, L;) and which is said by AZ to be syn. with قَرِيثَاآء as applied to بُسْر: (L:) [but كَثِيرَاآءُ should be added as a word of the same form; and perhaps there are other instances:] and accord. to Abu-l-Jarráh, one says ↓ تَمْرٌ قَرِيثَى, (S, O,) not with the lengthened alif, (S,) i. e. with the shortened alif: (O:) the meaning is, A species of dates, (S, K,) of (K) the sweetest, or best, thereof, in the state in which they are termed بُسْر; (S, O, * K;) a species of dates, which are black, and of which the skin quickly falls off from the لِحَاآء [or flesh ] thereof when they become ripe; as AHn says, they are the best of dates in the state in which they are termed بُسْر; and he adds, the dried thereof are black: (L, TA:) [and palm trees that produce such dates: ] some say that the word [قريثاآء] is أَعْجَمِىّ [i. e. foreign or Pers.]. (TA.)