قُرْحَان
Root: قرح
Full Definition
قُرْحَان
([i. e. قُرْحَانٌ or قُرْحَانُ] with or without tenween, as you please, Sh, TA) A camel that has never been attached by the mange, or scab: and a child, or a man, that has never been attacked by the small-pox, nor by the measles, nor by purulent pustules or the like: applied alike to one and to two and to a pl. number, and expl. as meaning persons not yet attacked by disease, and also applied alike to the male and to the female: قُرْحَانُونَ [as a pl. thereof] is of weak authority, or disused.
2 [Hence] one says, أَنْتَ قُرْحَانٌ مِمَّا بِهِ i. e.
3 And قُرْحَان signifies also One who has not witnessed war; and so قُرَاحِىٌّ :
4 and One who has been touched by قُرُوح [here app. meaning wounds, and perhaps also purulent pustules]: thus having contr. significations: masc. and fem.
def.2 Also, قُرْحَانٌ, [with tenween,] A species of كَمَأَة [or truffle], white, small, and having heads like those of the فُطْر [or toadstool]: one of which is called قُرْحَانَةٌ, or أَقْرَحُ . [See also فَرْحَانَةٌ.]
2 [Hence] one says, أَنْتَ قُرْحَانٌ مِمَّا بِهِ i. e.
3 And قُرْحَان signifies also One who has not witnessed war; and so قُرَاحِىٌّ :
4 and One who has been touched by قُرُوح [here app. meaning wounds, and perhaps also purulent pustules]: thus having contr. significations: masc. and fem.
def.2 Also, قُرْحَانٌ, [with tenween,] A species of كَمَأَة [or truffle], white, small, and having heads like those of the فُطْر [or toadstool]: one of which is called قُرْحَانَةٌ, or أَقْرَحُ . [See also فَرْحَانَةٌ.]
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