مَرِيرٌ

Root: مر

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مَرِيرٌ A rope that is slender and long and strongly twisted: pl. مَرَائِرُ: or that is twisted of more than one strand; as also : pl. of both as above: or مَرِيرَةٌ signifies a strongly twisted rope: or a long and slender rope: and a strand, or single twist, of a rope; as also مِرَّةٌ . [See an ex. voce سَحَلَ.] See also مُمَرٌّ.
2 [Hence,] رَجُلٌ مَرِيرٌ A strong man.
3 [Hence also,] مَرِيرٌ and Resolution, or determination: and ↓ the latter, strength (عِزَّة) of mind. See also 10.

def.2 See also مُرٌّ.

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