حَرِيصٌ
Root: حرص
Full Definition
حَرِيصٌ
A garment, or piece of cloth, rent [in being beaten and washed and whitened: see 1].
def.2 Vehemently desirous; eager; greedy; hankering; vehemently greedy; covetous; excessively, or inordinately, desirous: [or culpably desirous: see حَرَصَ عَلَيْهِ:] fem. with ة: pl. حِرَاصٌ, (A, L, K, [in the CK, erroneously, حُرَّاصٌ,]) which is masc. and fem., and حُرَصَآءُ, which is masc., and حَرَائِصُ, fem.
2 Also Excessively solicitous, or careful, and fearful, respecting a person; and excessively pitiful, or compassionate. حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُمْ, in the Kur [ix. 129], means [Vehemently desirous, &c.,] of profiting, or benefiting, you: or excessively soli-
def.2 Vehemently desirous; eager; greedy; hankering; vehemently greedy; covetous; excessively, or inordinately, desirous: [or culpably desirous: see حَرَصَ عَلَيْهِ:] fem. with ة: pl. حِرَاصٌ, (A, L, K, [in the CK, erroneously, حُرَّاصٌ,]) which is masc. and fem., and حُرَصَآءُ, which is masc., and حَرَائِصُ, fem.
2 Also Excessively solicitous, or careful, and fearful, respecting a person; and excessively pitiful, or compassionate. حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُمْ, in the Kur [ix. 129], means [Vehemently desirous, &c.,] of profiting, or benefiting, you: or excessively soli-
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