قَرِيثَآءُ
Root: قرث
Full Definition
قَرِيثَآءُ
, with the lengthened alif and without tenween, and
قَرَاثَآءُ ; and تَمْرٌ قَرِيثَآءُ and
قَرَاثَآءُ : and نَخْلٌ قَرِيثَآءُ and
قَرَاثَآءُ : قَرِيثَآء is [thus] used as an epithet, and it is also used as the complement of a prefixed noun; [so that one says also بُسْرُ قَرِيثَآءَ, and app.
likewise, and each in like manner with تَمْرُ and with نَخْلُ prefixed;] and it is dualized and is pluralized; and there is no word like it in form, except كَرِيثَآء, in which the ك is app. a substitute [for ق]; and which is said by AZ to be syn. with قَرِيثَآء as applied to بُسْر: [but كَثِيرَآءُ should be added as a word of the same form; and perhaps there are other instances:] and accord. to Abu-l-Jarráh, one says
تَمْرٌ قَرِيثَى , not with the lengthened alif, i. e. with the shortened alif: the meaning is, A species of dates, of the sweetest, or best, thereof, in the state in which they are termed
بُسْر; a species of dates, which are black, and of which the skin quickly falls off from the
لِحَآء [or flesh] thereof when they become ripe; as AHn says, they are the best of dates in the state in which they are termed
بُسْر; and he adds, the dried thereof are black: [and palm trees that produce such dates:] some say that the word [قريثآء] is أَعْجَمِىّ [i. e. foreign or Pers.].
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