تَوْرٌ
Root: تور
Full Definition
تَوْرٌ
A messenger between people, or that goes about between lovers: accord. to IDrd, a genuine Arabic word: pl. أَتْوَارٌ. And تَوْرَةٌ
A girl who is sent on messages between lovers.
def.2 A vessel, a certain wellknown vessel, a small vessel, from which one drinks: a vessel of brass, or of stone, like the إِجَّانَة: sometimes also used for the ablution termed وُضُوْء: so called from the same word as signifying the act of “ running ” or “ flowing ” [of water], because it is mutually borrowed and returned; or from the same word as signifying “ a messenger: ” of the masc. gender: [or fem., for Z says,] I passed, at the Gate of El-'Omrah, [of the Temple of Mekkeh,] by a woman who was saying to her female neighbour, أَعِيرِينِى تُوَيْرَتَكِ [Lend thou to me thy little تَوْر: for had she considered تور as masc., she would have said تُوَيْرَكِ].
2 تَوْرٌ نُحَاسٌ A cooking-pot of copper.
def.3 تَوْرُ المَآءِ i. q. طُحْلُبٌ, i. e. A green substance that overspreads stagnant water.
def.2 A vessel, a certain wellknown vessel, a small vessel, from which one drinks: a vessel of brass, or of stone, like the إِجَّانَة: sometimes also used for the ablution termed وُضُوْء: so called from the same word as signifying the act of “ running ” or “ flowing ” [of water], because it is mutually borrowed and returned; or from the same word as signifying “ a messenger: ” of the masc. gender: [or fem., for Z says,] I passed, at the Gate of El-'Omrah, [of the Temple of Mekkeh,] by a woman who was saying to her female neighbour, أَعِيرِينِى تُوَيْرَتَكِ [Lend thou to me thy little تَوْر: for had she considered تور as masc., she would have said تُوَيْرَكِ].
2 تَوْرٌ نُحَاسٌ A cooking-pot of copper.
def.3 تَوْرُ المَآءِ i. q. طُحْلُبٌ, i. e. A green substance that overspreads stagnant water.
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