Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

قَرَعَ in the sense of ضَرَبَ has مَقْرَعٌ for an inf. n. (Mgh, art. غمز.)

قَرَعَ فِى مِقْرَعِهِ i. q. ضَرَبَ فِى مِضْربِهِ. (TA in art. ضرب.)

قَرَعَ صَفَاتَهُ ‡ He impugned his character; blamed or censured him; spoke against him (Mgh, art. غمز.) See مَغْمَزٌ.

قَرَعَ بَيْنَ ظُفْرِ إِبْهَامِهِ وَظُفْرِ سَبَّابَتِهِ He fillipped with the nail of his thumb and that of his forefinger. (Lth, Ḳ,* TA, art. زنجر.)

هُوَ الفَحْلُ لَا يُقْرَعُ أَنْفُهُ: see أَنْفٌ and قدع.

قَرَعَ أَنْفَهُ, inf. n. قَرْعٌ, † He rejected him, repelled him, or turned him back; namely a suitor in a case of marriage. (TA, in art. بضع.) See بُضْعٌ.

إِنَّ العَصَا قُرِعَتْ لِذِى الحِلْمِ: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 55; and Ḥar, 656.

لَا يُقْرَعُ لَهُ العَصَا: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 543, and Ḥar, 655, in two places.

قَرَعَهُ بِعَصَا المَلَامَةِ: see عَصًا.

قَرَعْتُ رَأْسَهُ بِالعَصَا and بِالسَّيْفِ: see فَرَعْتُ.

قَرَعَ ظُنْبُوبَ بَعِيرِهِ: and قَرَعَ لِأَمْرِهِ ظُنْبُوبَهُ:, &c.: see art. ظنب: and قَرَعَ لِلْأَمْرِ سَاقَهُ: see سَاقٌ.

قَرَّعَهُ He reproached him for his crime or the like, saying to him, Thou didst so and so. (TA, voce مُثَرِّبٌ.)

قَرَّعَ He took, got, or won, a bet, wager, or stake. (L, in TA, voce نَدَبٌ.)

قَارَعَهُ: see its syn. سَاهَمَهُ.

أَقْرَعَ بَيْنَهُمْ He ordered, or commanded, them to cast, or draw, lots, or to practise sortilege, [among themselves,] for the thing (عَلَى الشَّىْءِ): (JM:) [see an ex. in the Mgh, in this art.:] or he prepared, or disposed, them, for doing so, for the thing (على الشىء): (Mṣb:) or he cast, or drew, lots, or practised sortilege, among them. (Ḳ.) The first explanation is generally preferable. See أَسْهَمَ بَيْنَهُمْ.

هُمَا يَتَقاَرَظَانِ الخَيْرَ وَالشَّرَّ: see تَقَارَضَا.

حُبُّ القَرْعِ Worms in the belly. (TA, voce شهدانج.) But see دُودُ القَرْحِ. القَرْع is not a mistake for القَرْح: حَبُّ القَرْحِ is a corruption, found in medical books: حب القرع is a name of the tape-worm, because each joint of it resembles a grain, or seed, of the gourd. (IbrD.)

قَرَعٌ Bare pieces of ground amid herbage. (TA in art. خفى, from a trad.)

قُوْعَةٌ [A lot used in sortilege: lots collectively: sortilege itself. Used in all these senses in the present day, and app. in the classical times.] ضَرَبَ القُرْعَةَ He shuffled, or cast, or drew, lots; performed a sortilege.

قَرِيعٌ; pl. قَرْعَى: see an ex. of the pl. in a prov. cited voce اِسْتَنَّ.

هُوَ قَرِيعُ وَحْدِهِ: see وحد.

قَارِعَةُ الطَّرِيقِ The higher, or highest, part of the road; the part that is trodden by the passengers; [the beaten way]. (Mṣb.) In law books expl. as meaning أَطْرَافُ الطَّرِيقِ; opposed to its جَادَّة.

قَارِعَةٌ A sudden calamity. (Ḳ.) See also Bḍ, and Jel, in xiii. 31, and an ex. voce اِنْفَرَجَ.

مَقْرَعٌ: see مَغْمَزٌ.

مِقْرَعٌ: see مَضْرَبٌ.

مِقْرَعَةٌ A whip: or anything with which one beats: (Ḳ:) or a thing with which a beast is beaten: (Az, TA:) or a piece of wood with which mules and asses are beaten: (TA:) [a cudgel: often applied in the present day to a cudgel made of the thick part of a palm-stick; and this, when used in sport, has several splits made in the thicker end, to cause the blows to produce a loud sound:] pl. مَقَارِعُ. (TA.)