غَرِيرٌ

Root: غر

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غَرِيرٌ Deceived; beguiled; made to desire what is vain, or false; and so مَغْرُورٌ . And you say likewise, أَنَا غَرَرٌ مِنْكَ, in the sense of مَغْرُورٌ [I am deceived by thee]. And مَغْرُورٌ signifies also A man who marries to a woman in the belief that she is free, and finds her to be a slave.
2 See also غِرٌّ, in three places.
3 It is said in a prov., أَنَا غَرِيرُكَ مِنْ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ, meaning I am one possessing knowledge in this affair so that when thou askest me of it I will inform thee respecting it without being prepared for it and without consideration: so says AZ: and Z says the like; i. e. I [am one who] will answer thee if thou ask me unexpectedly respecting this affair by reason of the soundness of my knowledge of the true state of the case: or [it means I am a deceived informant of thee respecting this affair; for] as As says, the meaning is, thou art not deceived by me, but I am the person deceived; the case being this, that false information came to me, and I acquainted thee with it, and it was not as I told thee; I having only related what I had heard. And one says, أَنَا غَرِيرُكَ مِنْهُ i. e. I caution thee [or I am thy cautioner] against him; [i. e.,] مِنْ فُلَانٍ [against such a one]; meaning, as Aboo-Nasr says in the “ Kitáb el-Ajnás, ” [that] there shall not happen to thee, from him, that whereby thou shalt be deceived; as though he said, I am thy surety, or sponsor, for that.
4 [Hence, app., it is said that] غَرِيرٌ signifies also A surety, sponsor, or guarantee.
5 And عَيْشٌ غَرِيرٌ A life in which one is not made to be in fear: like عَيْشٌ أَبْلَهُ: pl. غُرَّانٌ.
6 Hence, perhaps; or from الغِرَّةُ [app. as meaning “ inexperience ”], which is sometimes approved; or because it [sometimes] deceives; غَرِيرٌ also signifies Good disposition or nature. One says of a man when he has become old, and evil in disposition, أَدْبَرَ غَرِيرُهُ وَأَقْبَلَ هَرِيرُهُ His good disposition has regressed, or departed, and his evil disposition has advanced, or come: or what deceived and pleased has gone from him, and what is disliked on his part, of evilness of disposition &c., has come.

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