غَارَةٌ
Root: غور
Full Definition
2 A quick running, or vehement running, of a horse, and of a fox; as also غَوِيرٌ , of a fox.
3 [A raid; or an incursion into the territory of an enemy; or a sudden, or an unexpected, attack upon an enemy, or upon the territories or dwellings of an enemy, with a party of armed horsemen, and engagement with them in conflict; an urging of horses upon, or against, a people; generally, a hostile, or predatory, incursion: or the making such an incursion:] a subst. [or quasi-Verbal.Noun] from أَغَارَ عَلَى العَدُوِّ.
4 And Plunder, or pillage.
5 And hence, [Horsemen making a raid, or a sudden, or an unexpected, attack, upon an enemy, or upon the dwellings of an enemy, and engaging with them in conflict: horsemen urging their horses upon, or against, a people:] i. q. خَيْلٌ : and one says also خيل , with kesr. You say شَنَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الغَارَةَ i. e. He scattered, (S in art. شن, and Mgh * and Msb, *) or poured, (K in art. شن,) upon them [the horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, and engaging in conflict, or the horsemen urging their horses]. The poet says,
[And we gave as a morning-drink to the people of Nejrán a troop of horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, upon them, or urging their horses against them, namely the tribe of Temeem Ibn-Murr, and the piercing spears]: he means, سَقَيْنَاهُمْ خَيْلًا مُغِيرَةً: and تميم بن مرّ is put in the accus. case as a substitute for غارة.وَنَحْنُ صَبَحْنَا آلَ نَجْرَانَ غَارَةً تَمِيمَ بْنَ مُرٍّ وَالرِّمَاحَ النَّوَادِسَا
def.2 حَبْلٌ شَدِيدُ الغَارَةِ means A rope twisted hard; or hard in respect of the twisting; غَارَةٌ being in this case [as in that first mentioned above] a subst. standing in stead of the Verbal.Noun إِغَارَة: and so حَبْلٌ مُغَارٌ ; applied to a rope that is twisted with another. (TA voce مِسْحَلٌ.)
def.3 And الغَارَةُ signifies The navel: app. so called because of its depth.
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