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بَرِىْءٌ

Root: برأ

Full Definition

بَرِىْءٌ Free, مِنْهُ from it; namely a fault, defect, imperfection, blemish, or vice; and, also followed by مِنْهُ, clear, or quit, of it; irresponsible for it; or in a state of immunity with respect to it; i. e. exempt from the demand thereof; namely a debt, or a claim, or due, or right; as also and بَرَآءٌ . You say, أَنَا بَرِىْءٌ مِنْهُ [I am free from it, &c.]; and بَرَآءٌ , used alike as sing. and dual and pl. and masc. and fem., because it is originally an Verbal.Noun; and بُرَآءٌ : the pl. of بَرِىْءٌ is بَرِيؤُونَ and بُرَأءُ and بُرَآءٌ, of the measure فُعَالٌ, like رُخَالٌ, of an extr. measure, disapproved by Suh, who says, in the R, that it is a contraction of بُرَأءُ, and has tenween because it resembles [words originally of the measure] فُعَالٌ, and that the rel. n. formed from it is بُرَاوِىٌّ , but it is mentioned by AAF as a pl. of بَرِىْءٌ, and as being like رُخَالٌ, and Fr mentions بُرَآءُ as a pl. of the same, imperfectly decl., with one of the two hemzehs suppressed, and بِرَآءٌ and أَبْرَآءٌ and أَبْرِئَآءُ, the last two anomalous: the fem. of بَرِيْءٌ is بَرِيْئَةٌ; pl. بَرِيْآتٌ and بَرِيَّاتٌ and بَرَايَا. You say, أَنَا بَرِىْءٌ مِنْهُ and خَلِىٌّ مِنْهُ [I am free from it; or, more commonly, I am clear, or quit, of it, or him]; and أنَا بَرَآءٌ مِنْهُ and خَلَآءٌ مِنْهُ; and أَنَا مِنْهُ: and نَحْنُ مِنْكَ and الخَلَآءُ [We are clear, or quit, of you]; i. e., ذَوُو البَرَآءِ: so says Aboo-Is-hák; and As says the like of what Fr says. It is said in the Kur [xliii. 25], إِنَّنِى بَرَآءٌ مِمَّا تَعْبُدُونَ [Verily I am clear of that which ye worship]; or بَرِىْءٌ, or بُرَآءٌ ; accord. to different readers. بَرِىْءٌ occurs in several places in the Kur. Accord. to IAar, it signifies Clear of evil qualities or dispositions; shunning what is vain and false; remote from actions that occasion suspicion; pure in heart from associating any with God: and it signifies sound in body and intellect. See also بَارِئٌ, in two places.


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