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تَارٌّ

Root: تر

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تَارٌّ A man apart, or separate, from his people.

def.2 Plump in body, and having the bones full of moisture; fat, soft, thin-skinned, and plump: applied to a youth: fem. with ة, applied to a girl; meaning [plump &c.: or] beautiful and foolish and soft or weak. You say, غُلَامٌ تَارٌّ طَارٌّ [A boy that is plump, and with bones full of moisture, whose mustache is growing forth]. And قَصَبَةٌ تَارَّةٌ [A bone of the kind called قصبة full of moisture].
2 Relaxed, or flaccid, by reason of impatience (جَزَع T) or hunger (جَوْع K) [or the contrary (see أَتَرَّ شَىْءٍ, below,)] or some other cause: so says Abu-l-'Abbás.
3 A tall man; as also تَرٌّ , which is app. [a contraction of تَرِرٌ,] of the measure فَعِلٌ.
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