Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قَرْقَرَ

Root: قر

Form: R. Q. 1

Full Definition

قَرْقَرَ
R. Q. 1 [Verbal.Noun قَرْقَرَةٌ,] It sounded, [or rumbled,] by reason of hunger, or from some other cause. Also said of a cloud, with thunder.
2 It sounded, [or gurgled,] in a man's throat.
3 He laughed in a certain manner, violently, or immoderately, and reiterating his voice in his throat: or he imitated the sounds of laughing: or قَرْقَرَ is similar to قَهْقَهَ.
4 He brayed, with a clear and reiterated voice: or brayed in the best manner: said only of a camel advanced in age: (S, in art. نقض:) قَرْقَرَةٌ is the Verbal.Noun, and the simple subst. is قَرْقَارٌ: and قَرَاقِرُ is pl. of the former of these ns.
5 قَرْقَرَتْ It (a pigeon, حَمَامَة,) [cooed; or] uttered its cry: or uttered a hind of cry: the Verbal.Noun is قَرْقَرَةٌ and قَرْقَرِيرٌ, which latter IJ says is of the measure فَعْلَلِيْلٌ, thus making it a quadriliteralradical word, and قَرْقَارٌ and قَرْقَارٌ, which last is a simple subst. as well as an Verbal.Noun, and so is قَرْقرَةٌ.
6 She uttered a reiterated cry, or cackling.


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