قرن

قَرْنٌ ذ One's equal in age; syn. لِدَةٌ, (K,) or تِرْبٌ: with fet-h when relating to age, and with kesr when relating to fighting and the like. (Har, pp. 572,64.) ― -b2- قَرْنٌ, (JK, Msb,) or قَرْنٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ, (S,) [ A generation of men; ] people of one time (JK, * S, Ez-Zejjájee, Msb,) succeeding another قَرْن, (JK,) among whom is a prophet, or class of learned men, whether its years be many or few. (Ez-Zejjájee, Msb.) ― -b3- قَرْنٌ The part of the head of a human being which in an animal is the place whence the horn grows: (K:) or the side, (S,) or upper side, (K,) of the head: (S, K:) or [more exactly the temporal ridge (see صُدْغٌ) i. e.] the edge of the هَامَة (which is the middle and main part of the head [i. e. of the cranium ]), on the right and on the left. (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán. ”) ― -b4- قُرُونٌ of the head: see a verse cited voce خَيَّطَ. قُرُونٌ of horses: see أَجَمُّ. ― -b5- قَرْنٌ of a solid hoof: see جُبَّةٌ. ― -b6- قَرْنٌ of a desert, the most elevated part. (TA in art. جحف.) ― -b7- قَرْنُ أَعْفَرَ, as meaning A spear-head, see أَعْفَرُ. ― -b8- قَرْنٌ A pod, like that of the locust tree: pl. قُرُونٌ. Occurring often in the work of AHn on plants, and in the TA, &c. See غَافٌ. ― -b9- قَرْنٌ [ A thing ] in a she-camel, which is like the عَفَل in a woman; and which is cauterized with heated stones. (AA, TA, in art. عفل.) ― -b10- قَرْنٌ An issue of sweat: pl. قُرُونٌ: see two ex. voce سَنَّ.