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هرو

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to a large stick or staff, often used as a weapon or symbol of authority. It extends to the act of striking with such an object and metaphorically to a person's physical form or 'body'. It also encompasses the idea of cooking or making something tender.

Derived headwords

الهراوةnoun
  1. 1.
    Mace/Clubboth

    A large, heavy stick or club, often used as a weapon or by authority figures.

  2. 2.
    A specific horseclassical

    Refers to two specific horses: one belonging to Al-Rayan bin Huways al-Abdī, and another called 'the mace of the bachelors' which belonged to Abd al-Qays bin Afsa.

هراوةnoun
  1. 1.
    Mace/Clubboth

    A large, heavy stick or club, often used as a weapon or by authority figures.

هراوىnoun
  1. 1.
    Maces/Clubs (plural)both

    The plural form of 'harawah', referring to multiple large sticks or clubs.

هريnoun
  1. 1.
    Maces/Clubs (plural)classical

    An irregular plural form of 'harawah', referring to multiple large sticks or clubs.

هريnoun
  1. 1.
    Maces/Clubs (plural)classical

    Another irregular plural form of 'harawah', referring to multiple large sticks or clubs.

يهروهverb
  1. 1.
    to strike with a maceboth

    To hit someone with a large stick or club.

هرواverb
  1. 1.
    to strike with a maceboth

    To hit someone with a large stick or club.

تهراهverb
  1. 1.
    to strike with a maceboth

    To hit someone with a large stick or club.

الهاريةnoun
  1. 1.
    female slave who strikesclassical

    A female slave who strikes (her master or others).

هرواverb
  1. 1.
    to cook thoroughlyclassical

    To cook meat until it is very tender and done.

هراverb
  1. 1.
    to cook thoroughlyclassical

    To cook meat until it is very tender and done.

هراوة الشيءnoun
  1. 1.
    body/physiqueclassical

    The physical form or body of a person, likened to a stick due to its shape or size.

هراverb
  1. 1.
    to killclassical

    To kill someone.

Parallel reading

الهراوة، بالكسر: فرسان إحداهما؛ فرس الريان بن حويص العبدي؛ والثانية هراوة الأعزاب كانت لعبد القيس بن أفصى
Al-Harawah, with a kasra: two horses, one of them; the horse of Al-Rayan bin Huways al-Abdī; and the second, the Harawah of the Bachelors, belonged to Abd al-Qays bin Afsa.
يهدي أوائلهن كل طمرة جرداء مثل هراوة الأعزاب
Leading their foremost is every lean, swift mare like the Harawah of the Bachelors.
والهراوة: العصا الضخمة
And Al-Harawah: the large stick.
وخرج صاحب الهراوة
And the owner of the mace came out.
ج هراوى، بفتح الواو، مثل المطايا كما مر في الإداوة، وهري، بالضم، وهري، بالكسر مع كسر رائهما وتشديد يائهما
Plural: Harawi, with a fatha on the waw, like Mataya as mentioned in Al-Idawah, and Hari, with a damma, and Hari, with a kasra on the ha and a kasra on the ra and a shadda on the ya.
ينوخ ثم يضرب بالهراوى فلا عرف لديه ولا نكير
He kneels and then is struck with maces, and there is neither recognition nor denial.
إذا اختلفت في الهراوى الدمامك
When the Damamak differ in the maces.
ويروى الهري، بكسر الهاء.
And it is narrated as Al-Hiri, with a kasra on the ha.
وهراه بالهراوة يهروه هروا وتهراه: ضربه بها
And he struck him with the mace, he strikes him with it, striking and striking: he hit him with it.
يكسي ولا يغرث مملوكها إذا تهرت عبدها الهارية
Its slave is clothed and not left hungry when she strikes her slave, the Harriyah.
هروا اللحم هروا: أنضجه
To cook meat thoroughly: to make it tender.
وهراوة الشيء: شخصه وجثته تشبيها بالعصا
And the harawah of a thing: its person and body, by analogy with a stick.
لعظمت هذه هراوة يتيم
How great is this mace of an orphan!
وهرا: إذا قتل
And Hara: if he killed.