$aworaY * A certain marine plant; (K;) a sort of trees, of the trees of the shores of the sea: (Sgh, TA:) [it is, as supposed by Freytag, the plant called by Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab, p. 37,) sceura marina; of the class tetrandria, order monogynia; foliis lanceolatis, integris; floribus fulvis: &c.: said by him to be called in Arabic “ schura ” $wrh ; and by the people of Maskat, “ germ ” qrm :] a sort of trees growing in inlets of the sea, in the midst of the water of the sea, resembling the dulob in the thickness of its stem and the whiteness of its bark, and also called quromN . (O.)
The corpus record — Arabic
شُورَىٰ
shuwraaa
$aworaY * A certain marine plant; (K;) a sort of trees, of the trees of the shores of the sea: (Sgh, TA:) [it is, as supposed by Freytag, the plant called by Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab, p. 37,) sceura marina; of the class tetrandria, order monogynia; foliis lanceolatis, integris; floribus fulvis: &
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- The Quran 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- شُورَىٰ Quran 42:38 (Ash-Shuraa 38)
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