حَوْرٌ

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حَوْرٌ Verbal.Noun of حَارَ. [Hence,] نَعُوذُ بِٱللّٰهِ مِنَ الحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْنِ, a trad., meaning We have recourse to God for preservation from decrease, or defectiveness, after increase, or redundance: or مِنَ الحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْرِ, meaning as above: or from a bad state of affairs after a good state; from حَوْرٌ signifying the “ untwisting ” a turban: or from returning and departing from the community [of the faithful] after having been therein; [from حَارَ “ he untwisted ” his turban, and] from كَارَ “ he twisted ” his turban upon his head. (Zj, TA. [See also كَوْرٌ.]) ↓ فِى حُورٌ , and حَوْرٌ, Deficiency upon deficiency, and return upon return, is a prov., applied to him whose good fortune is retiring; or to him who is not in a good state; or to him who has been in a good state and has become in a bad state: or the saying is, فُلَانٌ حَوْرٌ فِى [Such a one is suffering deficiency upon deficiency: حَوْرٌ being used in the sense of حَائِرٌ, like بَوْرٌ in the sense of بَائِرٌ]: so heard by IAar; and said by him to be applied in the case of a thing not in a good state; or to him who has been in a good state and has become in a bad state. One says also, البَاطِلُ فِى حَوْرٍ What is false, or vain, is waning and retreating. And إِنَّهُ فِى وَبُورٍ, or حُورٍ بُورٍ, (K in art. حير,) Verily he is engaged in that which is not a skilful nor a good work or performance: (فِى غَيْرِ صَنْعَةٍ وَلَا إِجَادَةٍ: so in the L: in the K, for احادة is put إِتَاوَةٍ [which is evidently a mistake]: TA:) or he is in a bad state, and a state of perdition: (TA in art. حير:) or in error. (K. [See also بُورٌ: and see بَائِرٌ, in art. بور; where it is implied that بور is here an imitative sequent of حور.]) And ذَهَبَ فُلَانٌ فِى وَالبَوَارُ Such a one went away in a defective and bad state.
2 See also حَوِيرٌ.

def.2 What is beneath the [part called] كَوْرٌ of a turban.

def.3 The bottom of a well or the like.
2 Hence, هُوَ بَعِيدُ الحَوْرِ He is intelligent; deep in penetration.

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