Form 1قَرَنَ شَيْئًا بِشَىْءٍ1 sense
Core sense — he connected, or joined, a thing to a thinggenerated
He connected, or joined, a thing to a thing.
Core sense — he connected, or joined, a thing to a thinggenerated
He connected, or joined, a thing to a thing.
Core sense — he associated with him, he became his companiongenerated
He associated with him; he became his companion.
Maṣdar قِرَانٌ and مُقَارَنَةٌ.
Core sense — he gave of a thing two by two; he was able and strong to do itgenerated
He gave of a thing two by two.
A ʿObeyd, in art. بد, under أَبَدَّ.
See أَبَدَّ.
Or لِلشَّىْءِ; [the latter more probably right.]
Core sense — an opponent, an adversary; one's equal in couragegenerated
One who opposes, or contends with, another, in learning or in fighting: an opponent, a competitor, an adversary, an antagonist.
Or one's equal, or match, in courage; and generally, one's equal, match, or fellow.
Core sense — a horn; the side of the head; one's equal in age; a generationgenerated
One's equal in age; synonymous with لِدَةٌ or تِرْبٌ.
With fet-ḥ when it relates to age, and with kesr when it relates to fighting and the like.
Also قَرْنٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ.
Ez-Zejjājee: people of one time succeeding another قَرْن, among whom is a prophet, or a class of learned men, whether its years are many or few.
Or the side, or upper side, of the head.
Or [more exactly the temporal ridge i. e.] the edge of the هَامَة, which is the middle and main part of the head [that is, of the cranium], on the right and on the left. Zj, in his “Khalk el-Insán.”
See a verse cited under خَيَّطَ.
See أَجَمُّ.
See جُبَّةٌ.
In art. جحف.
See أَعْفَرُ.
Plural قُرُونٌ.
It occurs often in AHn's work on plants and elsewhere. See غَافٌ.
It is like the عَفَل in a woman, and is cauterized with heated stones. AA, in art. عفل.
Plural قُرُونٌ. See two examples under سَنَّ.
But how many (countless) generations before them have we destroyed, who were even better in equipment and in glitter to the eye?
(Pharaoh) said: "What then is the condition of previous generations?"
Then We raised after them another generation.
Then We raised after them other generations.
How many generations before them did We destroy? In the end they cried (for mercy)- when there was no longer time for being saved!
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
Core sense — a cord of twisted bark bound on the neck of a ploughing bullgenerated
The لُؤمَة [that is, the whole apparatus of the plough] is then bound to the middle of it.
See فَدَّانٌ.
This is the plural.
See under عَيْنٌ.
قَرَنٌ: see جَعْبَةٌ.
Core sense — the horn of the uterusgenerated
The “horn” of the uterus.
Core sense — a joining together, an associationgenerated
See قَرَنٌ.
Core sense — a miserly man who takes two dates at a timegenerated
See بَرَمٌ.
Core sense — an associate, a companion; a connexion; a contextgenerated
An associate, a comrade, a companion.
[The two together are termed قرينتان.]
Also a context, in an absolute sense.
أَسْمَحَتْ قَرُونَتُهُ and قَرِينَتُهُ: see 1 in art. سمح.
One of them will start the talk and say: "I had an intimate companion (on the earth),
If anyone withdraws himself from remembrance of (Allah) Most Gracious, We appoint for him an evil one, to be an intimate companion to him.
And his Companion will say: "Here is (his Record) ready with me!"
His Companion will say: "Our Lord! I did not make him transgress, but he was (himself) far astray."
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
Core sense — the soul; natural dispositiongenerated
See قرِينٌ.
Core sense — horned, having hornsgenerated
[Horned; having horns.] Under كَرَّازٌ, which see.
See an example of the feminine قَرْنَآءُ under دَانَ in art. دين.
Core sense — a thing with which two things are coupled togethergenerated
See مِخْذَفٌ.
Core sense — coupled, or bound, togethergenerated
See خَشْخَاشٌ.