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غَرَزَ

Root: غرز

Form: 1

Full Definition

غَرَزَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun غَرْزٌ, He pricked a thing with a needle, and with a stick or the like. (K in art. نخس.)
2 He inserted a needle into a thing; as also غرّز : he stuck, or fixed, a thing, or a stick, into the ground; he inserted and fixed a stick into the ground; he planted a tree; [like غَرَسَ;] with the same Present.T, and the same Verbal.Noun; as also .
3 [Hence,] غَرَزَ رِجْلَهُ فى الغَرْزِ, or فِى الرِّكَابِ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He put his foot into the غَرْز, or stirrup; as also [alone, from غَرْزٌ meaning a kind of stirrup].
4 [Hence also,] غَرَزَتِ الجَرَادَةُ; and غرّزت , or غرّزت بِذَنَبِهَا, Verbal.Noun تَغْرِيزٌ; The locust stuck her tail into the ground to lay her eggs.
5 And hence, أَقَامَ بِأَرْضِنَا وَغَرَزَ ذَنَبَهُ [He stayed. or abode, in our land, and remained fixed, or] did not quit it. (A and TA in art. ذنب.)
6 غُرِزَ and are also said of anything when one means It was tucked up (شُمِّرَ) into a thing. It is said in a trad. of El-Hasan, وَقَدْ غَرَّزَ ضُفُرَ رَأْسِهِ, i. e., And he had twisted [the locks or plaits of] his hair, and inserted its extremities into its roots.

def.2 غَرِزَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun غَرْزٌ, He obeyed the Sultán after having been disobedient to him: as though he laid hold of his غَرْز [or stirrup] and went with him.

def.3 غَرَزَتْ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun غِرَازٌ and غَرْزٌ, She had little milk; her milk became little.
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