كُورَةٌ
Root: كور
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كُورَةٌ
A province, district, or tract of country; a quarter, or region; syn. صُقْعٌ: a مِخْلَاف [q. v.] of a country; i. e., a قَرْيَةٌ [which properly signifies a town or village] of the قُرًى of El-Yemen: [but مخلاف is generally used in the first of the senses here assigned to كورة:] and also a city: [or a provincial city: but the first of these significations is the most common, as is implied in the Msb: see also بَنْدٌ:] pl. كُوَرٌ, like as غُرَفٌ is pl. of غُرْفَةٌ. IDrd says, I do not think it Arabic. [Perhaps from the Greek
χῶρα .]
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