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قرح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

قَرَاحٌ ذ Clear, pure, or free from admixture; as also ↓ قَرِيحٌ. (AHn, K. [And particularly] Water not mixed with anything: (S, A:) or water not mixed with camphor nor with [ any of the perfumes called ] حَنُوط nor with any other thing: (Msb:) or water not mixed (Mgh, K) with aught of سَوِيق, (Mgh,) or with dregs of سويق, (K,) nor any other thing: (Mgh, TA:) such as is drunk after food. (TA.) And Water mixed [thus in the L, and hence in the TA, probably a mistake of a copyist for not mixed ] with something to give it a sweet taste, as honey, and dates, and raisins. (L, TA.) ― -b2- Also, (or أَرْضٌ قَرَاحٌ, A,) A place of seed-produce, having no building upon it, nor any trees in it: (S, Msb:) or land (T, K) lying open to view, (T,) containing neither water nor trees, (T, K,) and not intermixed with anything: (T:) or land having in it no herbage nor any places of growth of herbage: (A:) or any piece of land by itself, having in it no trees nor any intermixture of a place exuding water and producing salt: (Mgh:) or any piece of land by itself, in which palm-trees &c. grow: (L:) or land cleared for sowing and planting: (AHn, K:) as also ↓ قِرْوَاحٌ and ↓ قِرْيَاحٌ and ↓ قِرْحِيَاآءُ: (K:) or ↓ قِرْوَاحٌ signifies land lying open to the sun, not intermixed with anything: (S:) or [ a place ] exposed to the sky, not concealed from it by anything: (K:) or a wide tract of land: (A:) or a wide, or plain and wide, expanse of land, not having in it any trees, and not intermixed with anything: (IAar:) or a hard and even tract of land, and a plain tract in which the water is not retained, somewhat elevated, but having an even surface, from which the water flows off to the right and left: (ISh:) the pl. of قَرَاحٌ is أَقْرِحَةٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or, as some say, this is pl. of ↓ قريح. (TA.)

Derived headwords

قَرَاحٌ
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