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Quran

Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry قري

ى

1 قَرَى الضَّيْفَ is doubly trans.: see a verse cited voce قُوهٌ.

8 اِفْتَرَى [meaning تَتَبَّعَ: see a verse of Aboo Dhu-eyb, voce خَافَةٌ, in art. خوف.] It also means He investigated a country or countries. (S, * K, * TA, all in art. قرى; and TA in art. قرو.) He made much and diligent search. (KL.) See also 10 in art. قرأ. قِرًى Entertainment for a guest; that with which a guest is entertained. (S.)

Water collected in a trough, or tank, for the drinking of beasts: see بَيُّوتٌ: thus explained in the M in art. بيت. قَرِىٌّ A place where water runs, (T, S,) to, (T,) or in, or into, (S,) meadows, (T,) or a meadow. (S.) See شَيْخٌ (last sentence).

Pl. أَقْرِيَةٌ: see قَرْءٌ. قَرْيَةٌ A town, or village; (Msb, TA;) a small بَلَد, smaller than a مَدِينَة: (MF, voce تِرْمِذ:) not well applied to a مَدِينَة unless qualified by an epithet denoting greatness. (TA in art. مَدِينَة.) See Bd, ii. 261. نَاقَةٌ فِى قِرْوَتِهَا : see 4 in art. قرأ. قَرِيَّةٌ [vulg. قَرْيَة The yard of a ship;] a squared piece of wood upon the head of the mast of a ship. (Az, TA in art. رنح.) قَارِيَهٌ A certain bird. See خُضَارِىٌّ and تَنَوُّطٌ. قَارٍ for قَارِئٌ, q. v. نَاقَةٌ قَرْوَاءُ A long-backed she-camel. (IB, in TA, voce هِرْجَابٌ.) مَقْرًى : see 2 in art. حجل. مَقْرُوٌّ and مَقْرِىٌّ for مَقْرُوْءٌ: see art. قرأ.

E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.