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غُرَّةٌ

Root: غر

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غُرَّةٌ Whiteness: clearness of colour or complexion. So in the phrase أَغَرُّ غُرَّةً [app. meaning More, or most. fair-complexioned]; occurring in a trad. applied to virgins: or the phrase is أَغَرُّ , meaning more, or most, remote from the knowledge of evil.
2 [A star, or blaze, or white mark, on the forehead or face of a horse;] a whiteness on the forehead of a horse, above the size of a دِرْهَم; or of the size of a درهم; as also غُرْغُرَةٌ : or it is a general term [for a star or blaze], including different kinds, as the قُرْحَة and the شِمْرَاخ and the like: or, if round, it is termed وَتِيرَةٌ; and if long, شَادِخَةٌ: or as, ISd thinks, the space itself, of the face, that is occupied by whiteness; not the whiteness: pl. غُرَرٌ. [See also أَغَرُّ.]
3 In a dog, A white speck, or a small white spot, above each of the eyes: so in a trad., in which it is said that the black dog having two such marks is to be killed.

def.2 Also The first, or commencement, of the month; the night, of the month, in which the new moon is first seen: so called as being likened to the غُرَّة on the forehead of a horse: pl. غُرَرٌ: which is also applied to the first three nights of the month. One says كَتَبْتُ غُرَّةَ الشَّهْرِ كَذَا I wrote on the first of the month thus.
2 [And hence,] The first, or commencement, of El-Islám; and of anything.
3 The whiteness of the teeth; and the [first that appears] of them.
4 The head app. when first appearing] of a plant.
5 [The sight, or spectacle, or] whatever appears to one, of light, or daybreak: you say thereof, بَدَتْ غُرَّتُهُ [The sight, or spectacle, thereof appeared].
6 The aspect of the new moon: because of its whiteness: or the phasis of the moon in the first night of the month]. (TA in art. هل.)
7 The face of a man: or his aspect; syn. طَلْعَة.
8 [And The forehead of a man. So used, as opposed to قَفًا, in the Life of Teemoor, 170, ed. Mang., cited by Freytag; and so used in the present day; but whether in classical times I know not.]
9 تَطْوِيلُ الغُرَّةِ. in performing the ablution termed وَضُوْء, means The washing of the fore part of the head with the face, and the washing of the side of the neck: or, as some say the washing of somewhat of the fore arm and of the shank with the hand and the foot.
10 And غُرَّهٌ also signifies A noble, or an eminent man, or a chief, or lord, of a people pl. غُرَرٌ.
11 And The best. and chiefest, of goods. or household furniture: pl. as above: the best of anything: the best, or most precious and excellent, of property ; as, for instance, a horse, and an excellent camel, and camels, and a male slave. and a female slave, or a clever female slave: its application to a slave, male or female, [among articles of property,] is most common. It has this last signification in a trad. in which it relates to the compensation for the destroying of a child in the womb: as though this term were applied, by a synecdoche, to the whole person; the word properly signifying the “ face; ” in like manner as the terms رَقَبَةٌ and رَأْسٌ are employed: Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-Alà is related to have said that it there means a white male slave or a white female slave: but this is not a condition accord. to the doctors of practical law; for they hold the term to mean a male or female slave whose price amounts to the tenth part of the whole price of blood: or to the twentieth part thereof: or it means a slave of the best sort. The Rájiz says, كُلُّ قَتِيلٍ فِى كُلَيْبٍ غُرَّهْ حَتَّى يَنَالَ القَتْلُ آلَ مُرَّهْ Every one slain in retaliation for Kuleyb is as a slave, until the slaying reach the family of Mur- rah.
12 Also Goodness, and righteous conduct: so in the saying, إِيَّاكُمْ وَالمُشاَرَّةَ فَإِنَّهَا تَدْفِنُ الغُرَّةَ وَتُظْهِرُ العُرَّةَ [Avoid ye contention, or disputation, for it hides goodness, &c., and manifests what is disgraceful].

def.3 [It is also an Verbal.Noun: see 1, latter part.]
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