قُحَاحُ
Root: قح
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قُحَاحُ
The root, foundation, origin, or source, of a thing or an affair; its essence, or very essence; or what is, or constitutes, its most essential, or elementary, part; the ultimate element to which it can be reduced or resolved; its utmost point or particular; or its principal, or best, part; syn. أَصْلُهُ and فَصُّهُ and خَالِصُهُ. One says, صَارَ إِلَى قُحَاحِ
الأَمْرِ
He reached, or arrived at, the root, &c., of the affair. And لَقَد وَقَعْتُ بِقُحَاحِ قُرِّكَ, as also وَقَعْتُ بِقُرِّكَ, I have become acquainted with (عَلِمْتُ) all that thou knowest, nothing thereof being hidden from me. And لَأَضْطَرَّنَّكَ إِلى قُحَاحِكَ
I will assuredly make thee to have recourse to thine utmost effort, or endeavour, i. e. إِلَى جَهْدِكَ: or, as IAar says, لا ضطرّنّك الى
تُرِّكَ وَقُحَاحِكَ, i. e. إِلَى أَصْلِكَ. (L. [See أَصْلٌ.])
2 See also قُحٌّ, latter half.
2 See also قُحٌّ, latter half.
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