Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سُرْعَةٌ

Root: سرع

Full Definition

سُرْعَةٌ Quickness, expedition, haste, speed, rapidity, swiftness, or fleetness; [of course, tendency, action, speech, &c.;] as also سَرَعٌ ; [the former said in the K, and the latter in the TA, to be an Verbal.Noun of سَرُعَ:] and a hastening, making haste, or speeding; i. q. إِسْرَاعٌ [Verbal.Noun of 4]; or a subst. therefrom. You say, عَجِبْتُ مِنْ سُرْعَةِ ذَاكَ [I wondered at the quickness, &c., of that].


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