قَارُورَةٌ

Root: قر

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قَارُورَةٌ [A flask, bottle, or, as it generally signifies in the present day, phial;] the thing in which wine, or beverage, &c., or in which wine, or beverage, and the like, rests, or remains: or it is of glass, only; a kind of vessel of glass: pl. قَوَارِيرُ. The dim. is قُوَيْرِيرَةٌ. قَوَارِيرَ قَوَارِيرَ مِنْ فِضَّةٍ, in the Kur, [lxxvi. 15 and 16,] is said by some learned men to mean Vessels, [vessels] white as silver and clear as قوارير. [See also art. فض.] An ا is added by some to the final قوارير [of verse 15] in order that the ends of the verses may be similar.
2 A receptacle for fresh, or dried, dates; also called قَوْصَرَةٌ.
3 The black of the eye; the part, of the eye, that is surrounded by the white: as being likened to قارورة of glass, because of its clearness, and because the observer sees his image in it. [See an ex. in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. سلب.]
4 A woman, or wife; as also قَوْصَرَّةٌ: called by the former appellation because the child, or the seed, rests in her womb, as a thing rests in a vessel, and as being likened to a vessel of glass because of her weakness. Hence the words [of Mohammad] in a trad., رُوَيْدَكَ رِفْقًا بِٱلْقَوَارِيرِ [Go thou leisurely: act gently with the قَوَارير]: women being here likened to قوارير of glass because of their weakness of purpose, and their fickleness; for such vessels are soon broken and cannot be restored to soundness: meaning, that the man thus addressed, named أَنْجَشَة , [a freedman of Mohammad,] should not raise his voice and sing in driving the camels, for fear of the women's having their desires excited by what they heard; or for fear that the camels, hearing the singing, should go quickly, and jolt and fatigue the riders.

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