Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

قَورَ, aor. يَقْوَرُ, inf. n. قَوَرٌ, It (a thing) was, or became, wide: whence دَارٌ قَورَاءُ, q. v. (JK.)

قَارَهُ, (A, Ḳ,) aor. يَقُورُ, inf. n. قَوْرٌ; (TA;) andقوّرهُ↓, (Ṣ, A, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. تَقْوِيرٌ; (Mgh, Mṣb;) andإِقْتَوَرَهُ↓; andاقتارهُ↓; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) [of all which the second is the most common;] He cut a round hole in the middle of it; (A, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as one cuts a جَيْب [or the opening at the neck and bosom of a shirt], (TA,) and a melon: (Mgh, Mṣb:) [he hollowed it out; he scooped it out; he cut out a piece of it, generally meaning in a round form:] he cut it in a round form. (Ṣ.) You sayقوّر↓ الجَيْبَ [He cut out, or hollowed out, the opening at the neck and bosom of the shirt]. (TA.) And قُرْتُ البِطِّيخَةَ, andقَوَّرْتُهَا↓, [I cut a round hole in the melon]. (TA.) And قُرْتُ خُفَّ البَعِيرِ, andقَوَّرْتُهُ↓, andإِقْتَرْتُهُ↓, [I cut a round hollow in the foot of the camel]. (TA.)

قُرْتُهُ, and قُرْتُ عَيْنَهُ, I put out, or pulled out, [or scooped out,] his eye; syn. فَقَأْتُ عَيْنَهُ. (TA.)

قَارَ المَرْأَةَ He circumcised the woman. (L, Ḳ.)

قوّر He widened a house; made it wide. (A,* TA.)

See also 1, in four places.

تقوّر It (a cloud) became dissundered, and separated into round portions. (TA, from a trad.) See also 7.

انقار It (the side of a cloud) became as though a portion fell from it, by reason of much water pouring [from it]. (TA.) See also 5.

إِقْتَوَرَهُ and اقتارهُ: see 1, in two places.

قَارٌ i. q. قِيرٌ [Tar: or pitch]. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) See مُقَوَّرٌ.

قَارَةٌ A small mountain separate from other mountains: (Ḳ:) or a small mountain upon another mountain: such [or a knoll of a mountain] seems to be meant by قَارَةُ جَبَلٍ: (TA:) or the smallest of mountains: (A:) or a small, black, isolated mountain, resembling an أَكَمَةٌ: or a black أَكَمَة: (TA:) or i. q. أَكَمَةٌ [i. e. a hill, or mound,, &c.]: (Ṣ:) or the smallest of mountains and the largest of آكَام; scattered, rough, and abounding with stones: (Lth:) or a small mountain, slender, compact, and lofty, not extending along the surface of the ground, as though it were a collection of stones, and [sometimes] great, and round: (ISh:) or a great rock, (Ḳ,) smaller than a mountain: (TA:) or a black rock: (Ḳ:) or a tract of ground containing black stones; (Ḳ, TA;) i. e., a حَرَّة: (TA:) pl. قَارٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and قَارَاتٌ (Ḳ) and قُورٌ (Lth, Ṣ, A, Ḳ) and قِيرَانٌ. (Lth, Ḳ.)

قُوَارَةٌ What is cut in a round form (مَا قُوِّرَ) from a garment or piece of cloth, &c.; (Ḳ;) as the قوارة of a shirt, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb,) 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: (Ṣ, A:) or particularly from a hide, or tanned hide; (Lḥ, Ḳ;) 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. (JK.)

Also, What one cuts from the sides of a thing (Ḳ, TA) that is مُقَوَّر [or cut in a round form]. (TA.)

And, contr., A thing of which the sides have been cut. (Ḳ.)

[أَقْوَرُ: fem. قَوْرَآءُ: Wide in the inside; capacious.] دَارٌ قَوْرَآءُ A house that is wide (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA) in the inside. (TA.)

مُقَوَّرٌ [Having a round hole cut in its middle: hollowed out; scooped out: cut in a round form. See 1.]

A camel smeared with قَطِرَان [or tar]. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.) See قَارٌ.

مُقَوِّرٌ A youth who hollows out the cakes of bread, eating the middle parts and leaving the edges. (A, TA.)