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قُوَارَةٌ

Root: قور

Full Definition

قُوَارَةٌ What is cut in a round form (مَا قُوِّرَ) from a garment or piece of cloth, &c.; as the قوارة of a shirt, and of a جَيْب [or the opening at the neck and bosom of a shirt], (TA, [but there written, by mistake, جنب,]) and of a melon: or particularly from a hide, or tanned hide; what is cut in a round form (مَا قُوِّرَ) from the middle of a hide, or tanned hide, for a target to shoot at, like the قوارة of a جَيْب.
2 Also, What one cuts from the sides of a thing that is مُقَوَّر [or cut in a round form].
3 And, contr., A thing of which the sides have been cut.


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