قَرْنٌ
Root: قرن
Full Definition
قَرْنٌ
One's equal in age; syn. لِدَةٌ, or تِرْبٌ: with fet-h when relating to age, and with kesr when relating to fighting and the like.
2 قَرْنٌ, or قَرْنٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ, [A generation of men;] people of one time succeeding another قَرْن, among whom is a prophet, or class of learned men, whether its years be many or few.
3 قَرْنٌ The part of the head of a human being which in an animal is the place whence the horn grows: or the side, or upper side, of the head: or [more exactly the temporal ridge (see صُدْغٌ) i. e.] the edge of the هَامَة , on the right and on the left.
4 قُرُونٌ of the head: see a verse cited voce خَيَّطَ. قُرُونٌ of horses: see أَجَمُّ.
5 قَرْنٌ of a solid hoof: see جُبَّةٌ.
6 قَرْنٌ of a desert, the most elevated part. (TA in art. جحف.)
7 قَرْنُ أَعْفَرَ, as meaning A spear-head, see أَعْفَرُ.
8 قَرْنٌ A pod, like that of the locust tree: pl. قُرُونٌ. Occurring often in the work of AHn on plants, and in the TA, &c. See غَافٌ.
9 قَرْنٌ [A thing] in a she-camel, which is like the عَفَل in a woman;
10 قَرْنٌ An issue of sweat: pl. قُرُونٌ: see two ex. voce سَنَّ.
2 قَرْنٌ, or قَرْنٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ, [A generation of men;] people of one time succeeding another قَرْن, among whom is a prophet, or class of learned men, whether its years be many or few.
3 قَرْنٌ The part of the head of a human being which in an animal is the place whence the horn grows: or the side, or upper side, of the head: or [more exactly the temporal ridge (see صُدْغٌ) i. e.] the edge of the هَامَة , on the right and on the left.
4 قُرُونٌ of the head: see a verse cited voce خَيَّطَ. قُرُونٌ of horses: see أَجَمُّ.
5 قَرْنٌ of a solid hoof: see جُبَّةٌ.
6 قَرْنٌ of a desert, the most elevated part. (TA in art. جحف.)
7 قَرْنُ أَعْفَرَ, as meaning A spear-head, see أَعْفَرُ.
8 قَرْنٌ A pod, like that of the locust tree: pl. قُرُونٌ. Occurring often in the work of AHn on plants, and in the TA, &c. See غَافٌ.
9 قَرْنٌ [A thing] in a she-camel, which is like the عَفَل in a woman;
10 قَرْنٌ An issue of sweat: pl. قُرُونٌ: see two ex. voce سَنَّ.
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