Dictionary of The Holy Quran — Page 133
جرم جرع thing and did not leave anything on the table. أَرْضُ جُرُزُ : Land in which there is no herbage or which produces no herbage; land of which the herbage has been cut and has been eaten; land from which the water is cut off and it has been dried up or it has not been rained upon أَنَّا نَسُوْقُ الْمَاءَ إِلَى الْاَرْضِ الْجُرُزِ : We drive the water to the dry land (32:28). رست جَرَعَ ]aor يَجْرَعُ inf. noun جَرَعَ الْمَاءَ جَرْعٌ : He sawllowed the water. تَجَرَّعَ الْمَاءَ : He swallowed the water in consecutive portions one time after another, like one who acts against his will; he drank water in haste or he drank it little by little. جُرْعَةٌ : A gulp or as much as is swallowed at once of water; a sup or sip as also جَرْعَةٌ and جِرْعَةٌ or جَرْعَةٌ : A single act of swallowing water and جُرْعَةٌ is what one swallows or a mouthful which one swallows or a small drought. يَتَجَرَّعُه : He will drink it little by little; he will drink it against his will and with difficulty (14:18). جَرَفَ ]aor. يَجْرُقُ inf. noun جَرَ الشَّيْءَ [جَرْفٌ : He took away, carried away or removed the whole or greater part of the thing. جَرَفَ النَّاسَ كَجَرْفِ السَّيْلِ : It swept away or destroyed men like the sweeping away of the torrent. جُرُ : A bank the lower part of which is excavated by the water and hollowed out by the torrents so that it remains unsound or weak; a bank of a water course when the water has carried away from its lower part and undermined it so that its upper part remains over hanging; the side of a bank of a river that has been eaten by water so that some part of it every little while falls; an abrupt, water-worn bank or ridge. عَلَى شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارِ : On the edge of a hollowed falling bank )9:109( جَارِفٌ : Death or pestilence that is wide spread and destroys and sweeps away people like the sweeping away of the torrent. و جَرَمَ الشَّيْءَ جَرْمٌ جَرَمَ ]aor. يَجْرِمُ inf. noun : He cut the thing or cut it off. جَرَمَ النَّاقَةَ : He sheared or cut off the hair of the she-camel. جَرَمَ النَّخْلَ : He cut off the fruit of the palm-tree. أَجْرَمْتُهُ : I led him into sin. لاَ يَجْرِ مَنَّكُمْ شِنَانُ قَوْمٍ عَلَى أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوْا : Let not the enmity or hatred of a people occasion or cause you or induce or incite you that you 133