بَرَّآءٌ
Root: برى
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بَرَّآءٌ
A maker of arrows, who forms, or fashions, them by cutting; who shapes them out, or pares them: or who does so completely: and a maker of spindles, who forms, or fashions, them by cutting: and a cutter, or parer, of aloes-wood, that is used for fumigation: [and in like manner, قِسِىٍ
a fashioner, or shaper, of bows: whence the saying,] أَعْطِ القَوْسَ بَارِيَهَا [Give thou the bow to its fashioner]; meaning
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