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عرّسوا

Root: عرس

Form: 2

Full Definition

عرّسواII , Verbal.Noun تَعْرِيسٌ; and ; but the former is the more common; the latter, rare; They alighted during a journey, in the last part of the night, for a rest, and made their camels lie down, and took a nap, or slight sleep, and then departed, and continued their journey, at daybreak: [see also 2 in art. عوه:] or they journeyed all the day, and alighted in the first part of the night: or they alighted in a usual place of resort at any time of the night or day. [Hence,] لَيْلَةُ التَّعْرِيسِ The night in which the Apostle of God slept: the story of which is well known, in the biographies of him and in the traditions. [It was when he was returning from the siege and capture of Kheyber: he halted in the latter part of the night, and unintentionally slept until the time of the prayer of daybreak had passed. See “ Mishcàt ul-Masábìh, ” vol. i., p. 146.]

def.2 See also 4.

def.3 عُرِّسَ, Verbal.Noun as above, It had an عَرْس [q. v.] made to it.
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