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جَوْهَرٌ

Root: جهر

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جَوْهَرٌ a word of well-known meaning, [a coll. gen. n., Jewels; precious stones; gems; pearls: any kind of jewel, precious stone, or gem: and also applied (as in the T, M, Mgh, Msb, and K, voce تِبْرٌ, q. v.,) to native ore:] any stone from which is extracted, or elicited, anything by which one may profit: n. un. with ة: [pl. جَوَاهِرُ:] it is of the measure فَوْعَلُ, and is from الجَهْرُ signifying a thing's “ becoming exceedingly plain to be perceived by the sense of sight: ” or it is of Persian origin, arabicized, [from گَوْهَرْ,] accord. to most persons.
2 جَوْهَرُ سَيْفٍ The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, of a sword; syn. فِرِنْدٌ. (T and K voce فِرِنْدٌ.]
3 جَوْهَرُ شَىْءٍ [The essence of a thing; or that whereby a thing is what it is; the substance of a thing: the constituent of a thing; the material part thereof;] that upon which the natural con- stitution of a thing is as it were based; or of which its natural constitution is made to be; [or, as IbrD thinks to be meant in the K, the collective parts and materials of a thing, of which its natural constitution is moulded;] expl. by مَاوُضِعَتْ عَلَيْهِ جِبِلَّتُهُ, or, as in some Lexicons, [as the JK and the Msb,] مَا خُلِقَتْ عَلَيْهِ جِبِلَّتُهُ [which is virtually the same]: الجَوْهَرُ and الذَّاتُ and المَاهِيَّةُ and الحَقِيقَةُ are all syn. terms; and the first has other significations; but in the classical language it signifies الأَصْلُ, i. e., أَصْلُ المُرَكَّبَاتِ [the original of compound things]; and not what subsists by itself.
4 [Hence, الجَوْهَرُ الفَرْدُ The indivisible atom.]
5 In the conventional language of scholastic theology, جَوْهَرٌ signifies Substance, as opposed to accident; in which sense, some assert the word to be so much used as to be, in this sense, conventionally regarded as proper.

def.2 See also جَهْوَرٌ.


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