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جِرْنٌ

Root: جرن

Full Definition

جِرْنٌ The body, with the limbs or members; syn. جِسْمٌ; said to be a dial. var. of جِرْمٌ; or the ن may be a substitute for the جرم of أَجْرَانٌ; but the former is the more probable, as the word has a pl., namely, أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ أَجْرَانَهُ, and this is scarcely ever the case when a word is formed by substitution. Hence the saying, أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ أَجْرَانَهُ, i. q. القى عليه أَجْرَامَهُ and شَرَاشِرَهُ [He threw upon him, or it, the weight of his body]: (Lh, TA: [see also شَرْشَرةٌ, under which other explanations are given:]) or he threw his weights [meaning his whole weight] upon him, or it; and so عليه القى: or, accord. to the A, he disposed, or subjected, his mind to it; or persuaded himself to do it; namely, an affair.


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