# قرع
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From ق ر ع (q-r-ʕ), ranging in semantics from casting lots and sortition with sticks or arrow-shafts to casting the whip and otherwise preceding rough.

#### Verb

قَرَعَ • (qaraʕa) I (non-past يَقْرَعُ (yaqraʕu), verbal noun قَرْع (qarʕ))
* (transitive, intransitive) to knock, rap, strike
** (transitive) to cudgel, to driveback with a stick
** (transitive, intransitive) to beat the drum, to ring, to clink
* (transitive, intransitive) to reproach, to impugn the character of

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

قَرَعَ • (qaraʕa) I (non-past يَقْرَعُ (yaqraʕu), verbal noun قَرْع (qarʕ) or قِرَاع (qirāʕ))
* (transitive) to cover (a mare) (of a stallion)

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

قَرَعَ • (qaraʕa) I (non-past يَقْرُعُ (yaqruʕu), verbal noun قَرْع (qarʕ))
* (intransitive) to cast lots
* (intransitive) to be the winner in casting lots

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

قَرِعَ • (qariʕa) I (non-past يَقْرَعُ (yaqraʕu), verbal noun قَرَع (qaraʕ))
* (intransitive) to ring, to jingle
* (intransitive) to creak, to crunch
** (intransitive) to itch, to cause remorse
* (Can we verify this sense?) to accept advice
* (Can we verify this sense?) to conquer in throwing the javelin or spear
* (intransitive) to be empty, deserted, bare
** (intransitive) to be bald

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

قَرَّعَ • (qarraʕa) II (non-past يُقَرِّعُ (yuqarriʕu), verbal noun تَقْرِيع (taqrīʕ))
* (transitive) to cuss, to reprimand
* (transitive) to percuss, to ring, to drum

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

قَرْع • (qarʕ) m
* verbal noun of قَرَعَ (qaraʕa) (form I)

##### Declension
#### Noun

قَرَع • (qaraʕ) m
* verbal noun of قَرِعَ (qariʕa) (form I)

##### Declension
#### Noun

قَرَع or قَرْع • (qaraʕ or qarʕ) m (collective, singulative قَرَعَة f (qaraʕa) or قَرْعَة (qarʕa))
* button, pustule, itch, rash
** a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 69 Nr. 73:لحب القرع والديدان الكبير سرخس وبرنج وقنبيل وتربذ وترمس ومر متساوية الشربة أربعة دراهم بماء حارFor (the treatment of ) flukes and large worms Male fern, embelia, kamala, turpeth, lupine, and myrrh (in) equal (parts). A potion (may be made by using) four dirham (of it) with hot water.

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Classical Syriac ܩܪܐܐ (qarrʾā).

#### Noun

قَرْع • (qarʕ) m (collective, singulative قَرْعَة f (qarʕa))
* pumpkin, gourd
* (archaic) chemical retort
** 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 257 4–6:القَرْع، والأَنْبِيق، وهما آلتا صُنَّاع ماء الوَرْد. والسفلى هي القرع، والعليا على هيئة المِحْجمة، هي الأنبيق.The retort and the still are two implements of those who make rose-water. The lower is the retort, the upper of the shape of a cupping glass, that is the still.

##### Declension
### References

* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 143
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قرع”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 718
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “قرع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2987
* Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 542–548
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قرع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ق ر ع
* 1 term

### Etymology 1

From Arabic قَرَّع (qarraʕ).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡar.raʕ/

#### Verb

قَرَّع • (garraʕ) II (non-past يِقَرِّع (yigarriʕ))
* to be bald

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of قرع (garraʕ) :
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| past | m | قرعت (garraʕt) | قرعت (garraʕt) | قرع (garraʕ) | قرعنا (garraʕna) | قرعتوا (garraʕtu) | قرعوا (garraʕu) |
| past | f | قرعت (garraʕt) | قرعتي (garraʕti) | قرعت (garraʕat) | قرعنا (garraʕna) | قرعتوا (garraʕtu) | قرعوا (garraʕu) |
| non-past | m | أقرع (ʔagarriʕ) | تقرع (tigarriʕ) | يقرع (yigarriʕ) | نقرع (nigarriʕ) | تقرعوا (tigarriʕu) | يقرعوا (yigarriʕu) |
| non-past | f | أقرع (ʔagarriʕ) | تقرعي (tigarriʕi) | تقرع (tigarriʕ) | نقرع (nigarriʕ) | تقرعوا (tigarriʕu) | يقرعوا (yigarriʕu) |
| imperative | m | | قرع (garriʕ) | | | قرعوا (garriʕu) | |
| imperative | f | | قرعي (garriʕi) | | | قرعوا (garriʕu) | |

### Etymology 2

From Arabic قَرَع (qaraʕ).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaraʕ/

#### Noun

قرع • (garaʕ) m
* baldness

### Etymology 3

From Arabic قَرْع (qarʕ).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡarʕ/

#### Noun

قرع • (ɡarʕ) m (collective, singulative قَرْعَة f (ɡarʕa))
* squash, gourd

##### See also

* يَقْطِين (yagṭīn, “pumpkin”)