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قَارَةٌ

Root: قور

Full Definition

قَارَةٌ A small mountain separate from other mountains: or a small mountain upon another mountain: such [or a knoll of a mountain] seems to be meant by قَارَةُ جَبَلٍ:) or the smallest of mountains: or a small, black, isolated mountain, resembling an أَكَمَةٌ: or a black أَكَمَة: or i. q. أَكَمَةٌ [i. e. a hill, or mound, &c.]: or the smallest of mountains and the largest of آكَام; scattered, rough, and abounding with stones: or a small mountain, slender, compact, and lofty, not extending along the surface of the ground, as though it were a collection of stones, and [sometimes] great, and round: or a great rock, smaller than a mountain: or a black rock: or a tract of ground containing black stones; i. e., a حَرَّة: pl. قَارٌ, [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and قَارَاتٌ and قُورٌ and قِيرَانٌ.


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