بَرِّىٌّ
Root: بر
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بَرِّىٌّ[
Of, or belonging to, or relating to, the land as opposed to the sea or a great river.
2 And Of, or belonging to, or relating to, the desert or waste; growing, or living, or produced, in the desert or waste; wild, or in an uncultivated state.
3 And hence,] أَرْضٌ بَرِّيَّةٌ Uncultivated land; without seed-produce, and unfruitful; without green herbs or leguminous plants and without waters; contr. of رِيفِيَّةٌ. And, simply, , and , the latter a variation of the former, the ى being made quiescent, and the ة therefore being changed into ت, as in عِفْرِيتٌ, originally عِفْرِيَةٌ, a rel. n. from بَرٌّ, A desert; a waste; a spacious tract of ground without herbage; syn. صَحْرَآءُ: [see also بَرٌّ:] or a tract nearer to the desert (البَرّ) than it is to water: [but some write the latter word ; and it is said that] بِرِّيتُ, (T and K in art. برت,) of the same measure as سِكِّيتٌ, signifies flat, even, or level, land: or a barren, flat, even, or level, land: a poet says,
2 And Of, or belonging to, or relating to, the desert or waste; growing, or living, or produced, in the desert or waste; wild, or in an uncultivated state.
3 And hence,] أَرْضٌ بَرِّيَّةٌ Uncultivated land; without seed-produce, and unfruitful; without green herbs or leguminous plants and without waters; contr. of رِيفِيَّةٌ. And, simply, , and , the latter a variation of the former, the ى being made quiescent, and the ة therefore being changed into ت, as in عِفْرِيتٌ, originally عِفْرِيَةٌ, a rel. n. from بَرٌّ, A desert; a waste; a spacious tract of ground without herbage; syn. صَحْرَآءُ: [see also بَرٌّ:] or a tract nearer to the desert (البَرّ) than it is to water: [but some write the latter word ; and it is said that] بِرِّيتُ, (T and K in art. برت,) of the same measure as سِكِّيتٌ, signifies flat, even, or level, land: or a barren, flat, even, or level, land: a poet says,
[A barren, flat land, after which is a second barren, flat land]: ISd says that بِرِّيتٌ, in a poem of Ru-beh, [from which the ex. given above is probably taken,] is of the measure فِعْلِيتٌ from البَرُّ; and that art. برت is not the place in which it should be mentioned: Lth says, البَرِّيتُ is a noun derived from البَرِّيَّةُ; the ى becoming quiescent, and the ة becoming an inseparable ت, as though it were a radical letter, as in the case of عِفْرِيَةٌ, which thus becomes عِفْرِيتٌ: the pl. of برّيّة is بَرَارِىُّ; and that of برّيت is بَرَارِيتُ.بِرِّيتُ أَرْضٍ بَعْدَهَا بِرِّيتُ
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