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قرّحهُ

Root: قرح

Form: 2

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قرّحهُII He wounded him much, or in many places.
2 قُرِّحَ said of a camel: see 1, near the beginning.
3 [قرّحهُ بِالحَقِّ in some copies of the K is a mistranscription; the verb in this phrase being without teshdeed.]
4 قرّح الوَشْمَ He pricked, or punctured, the وشم [or tattoo] with the needle.
5 And [the Verbal.Noun] التَّقْرِيحُ signifies التَّشْوِيكُ [by which may be meant The pricking with a thorn: or, as seems to be not improbable from what here follows, it may be from شوّك الزَّرْعُ, q. v.].
6 قرّح, Verbal.Noun تَقْرِيحٌ, said of the [plant called] عَرْفَج, means It put forth its first growth. And قرّح الشَّجَرُ The trees put forth the heads [or extremities] of their leaves. Accord. to AHn, التَّقْرِيحُ signifies The first vegetation of herbs, or leguminous plants, that grow from grain, or seed: and the growing of the stalk of herbs, or leguminous plants; i. e. the appearing of the stem thereof: IAar uses the phrase يَنْبُتُ البَقْلُ صُلْبًا [as though meaning the herbs, or leguminous plants, grow putting forth the stem in a hard, or firm, state]; but it should be , unless be a dial. var. of قَرَّحَ: or it may be that here means standing upright upon the stem thereof. تَقْرِيحُ الأَرْضِ signifies The land's beginning to give growth to plants, or herbage.
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