Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

قَرِثَ, aor. ـَ {يَقْرَثُ}, (O, Ḳ,) inf. n. قَرَثٌ, (TA,) He toiled; and gained or earned, or sought gain or sustenance. (O, Ḳ.)

قَرَثَهُ الأَمْرُ i. q. كَرَثَهُ. (Ḳ.) You say, قَرَثَنِى الأَمْرُ and كَرَثَنِى, meaning The affair, or event, grieved me; and burdened me heavily, or overburdened me. (Aṣ, O.)

اِقْتَرَثَتِ البُسْرَتَانِ, and الثَّلَاثُ, The two unripe dates, and the three, grew together, intermingling. (ʼEesà Ibn-ʼOmar, O and TA in art. سخل.)

قَرْثٌ A small [leathern vessel for water, of the kind called] رَكْوَة: (O, Ḳ:) mentioned by Th, on the authority of IAạr: (O:) فَرْثٌ is a dial. var. thereof; (TA;) [or] this latter, mentioned by Az, in art. فرث, is a mistranscription. (O.)

بُسْرٌ قَرِيثَآءُ, (Ks, Ṣ, O, Ḳ,) with the lengthened alif and without tenween, (Ks, Ṣ, O,) andقَرَاثَآءُ↓; (O, Ḳ;) and تَمْرٌ قَرِيثَآءُ andقَرَاثَآءُ↓: (Lḥ, Ḳ:) and نَخْلٌ قَرِيثَآءُ (Ks, Ṣ, O, Ḳ) andقَرَاثَآءُ↓: (Ḳ:) 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.قَرَاثَآءَ↓ 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]; (ISd, L;) and which is said by AZ to be syn. with قَرِيثَآء as applied to بُسْر: (L:) [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↓, (Ṣ, O,) not with the lengthened alif, (Ṣ,) i. e. with the shortened alif: (O:) the meaning is, A species of dates, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) of (Ḳ) the sweetest, or best, thereof, in the state in which they are termed بُسْر; (Ṣ, O,* Ḳ;) 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 AḤn says, they are the best of dates in the state in which they are termed بُسْر; and he adds, the dried thereof are black: (L, TA:) [and palm trees that produce such dates:] some say that the word [قريثآء] is أَعْجَمِىّ [i. e. foreign or Pers.]. (TA.)

قِرِّيثٌ A certain species of fish; (Ṣ;) a dial. var. of جِرِّيثٌ [q. v.]. (Ṣ, Ḳ.*)