اغار
Root: غور
Form: 4
Full Definition
def.2 اغار as intrans.: see 1, in four places.
2 Also He went away in, or into, the country, or land.
3 And, Verbal.Noun إِغَارَةٌ and غَارَةٌ, or the latter is a simple subst., [or quasi-Verbal.Noun,] He hastened, or was quick, in walking, or marching, or journeying: he was quick, and pushed, or pressed, on, or forward, (دَفَعَ, S,) in his running; said of a horse, and of a fox: he ran vehemently, and was quick, in a غَارَة [or raid, or sudden attack upon a people, or their dwellings,] &c. Hence the saying, أَشْرِقْ ثَبِيرْ كَيْمَا نُغِيرْ [Enter thou upon the time of sunrise, Thebeer, ] that we may proceed quickly, or push, or press, on, or forward, to the sacrifice of the pilgrimage: or to the return from Minè: or that we may plunder the meats of the sacrifices: or that we may enter into the low land. (TA. [See also 2 in art. شرق.]) Hence also the saying, أَغَارَ إِغَارَةَ الثَّعْلَبِ He was quick, and pushed, or pressed, on, or forward, like as does the fox.
4 اغار عَلَى العَدُوِّ, and عَلَى القَوْمِ, Verbal.Noun إِغَارَةٌ and غَارَةٌ, or the latter is a simple subst., [or quasi-Verbal.Noun, as in the case mentioned above,] and مُغَارٌ, He made [a raid, or hostile or predatory incursion, into the territory of the enemy; or] a sudden, or an unexpected, attack [upon the enemy, or] upon the territory or dwellings of the enemy, [with a party of armed horsemen, generally meaning a predatory incursion,] and engaged with them in conflict; or he urged the horses upon, or against, the people; as also : and in like manner you say العَدُوَّ, Verbal.Noun مُغَاوَرَةٌ and غِوَارٌ. See also 6. And اغار الذِّئْبُ فِى الغَنَمِْ The wolf made an incursion among the sheep or goats; (K * and TA in art. شع;) as also .
5 Also اغار عَلَيْهِ He plundered it; took it by pillage.
6 And اغار بِبَنِى فُلَانٍ, and sometimes إِلَى بنى فلان, He came to the sons of such a one to aid, or succour, them: or to be aided, or succoured, by them.
def.3 اغار, Verbal.Noun إِغَارَةٌ and quasi-Verbal.Noun غَارَةٌ, signifies also He twisted hard a rope.
def.4 اغار أَهْلَهُ He married another in addition to his wife [and so caused her to be jealous: see 1]. [See also art. غير.]
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