حَوَارِىٌّ
Root: حور
Full Definition
2 One who is freed and cleared from every vice, fault, or defect: [or] one who has been tried, or proved, time after time, and found to be free from vices, faults, or defects; from حَارَ “ he returned. ”
3 A thing that is pure, or unsullied: anything of a pure, or an unsullied, colour: and hence,
4 One who advises, or counsels, or acts, sincerely, honestly, or faithfully: or a friend; or true, or sincere, friend: or an assistant: or a strenuous assistant: or an assistant of prophets: or a particular and select friend and assistant of a prophet: and hence the pl. is applied to the companions of Mohammad also.
5 A relation.
6 And حَوَارِيَّةٌ A white, or fair, woman; as also حَوَرْوَرَةٌ ; and so حَوْرَآءُ , without implying حَوَرٌ of the eye: pl. of the first حَوَارِيَّاتٌ: or this pl. signifies women of the cities or towns; so called by the Arabs of the desert because of their whiteness, or fairness, and cleanness: or women clear in complexion and skin; because of their whiteness, or fairness: or women inhabitants of regions, districts, or tracts, of cities, towns, or villages, and of cultivated land: or [simply] women; because of their whiteness, or fairness.
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