Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حرّر

Root: حر

Form: 2

Full Definition

حرّرII , Verbal.Noun تَحْرِيرٌ, He freed, liberated, or emancipated, a slave. And حرّر رَقَبَةً He freed a neck [i. e. a slave].
2 Also He set apart a child for the worship of God and the service of the mosque or oratory: or he devoted him to the service of the church as long as he should live, so that he could not relinquish it while he retained his religion.
3 Also, Verbal.Noun as above, He made a writing &c. accurate, or exact; he made a writing beautiful, or elegant, and free from defects, by forming its characters rightly, and rectifying its faults: he wrote a writing well, or elegantly, and accurately, or exactly; he wrote well, or elegantly: and he made an account, or a reckoning, accurate, without mistake, and without omission, and without erasure. [And simply He wrote a letter &c.]


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