غُرَاب

guraAbN * A certain black bird, (TA,) well known; (K, TA;) [the corvus, or crow; ] of which there are several species; [namely, the raven, carrioncrow, rook, jackdaw, jay, magpie, &c.:] and it was used as a proper name, which, as is said in a trad., he [i. e. Mohammad] changed, because the word implies the meaning of distance, and because it is the name of a foul bird: (TA:) the pl. [of mult.] is girobaAnN (S, Msb, K) and gurobN (K) and (of pauc., S) A^agoribapN (S, Msb, K) and A^agorubN ; (Msb, K;) and pl. pl. garaAbiynu . (K.) When the Arabs characterize a land as fertile, they say, waqaEa fiY A^aroDK laA yuTay~aru guraAbuhaA (tropical:) [ He lighted upon a land of which the crow will not be made to fly away; because of its abundant herbage: see also Tay~ara ]: and wajada vamarapa AlguraAbi (assumed tropical:) [ He found the fruit of the crow ]; because that bird seeks after and chooses the most excellent of fruits. (TA.) They also say, TaAra guraAbu fulaAnK (tropical:) [ The crow of such a one flew away ], meaning the head of such a one became white, or hoary. (A, TA. [See also a similar phrase below.]) Also, fulaAnN A^aboSaru mino guraAbK [ Such a one is more sharp-sighted than a crow ]: and A^aHo*aru [ more cautious ]: and A^azohaY [ more proud ]: and A^a$oA^amu [ more inauspicious ]: &c.: they say that this bird is more inauspicious than any other inauspicious thing upon the earth. (TA.) In the phrase ↓ guraAbN gaAribN , the epithet is added to give intensiveness to the signification. (TA.) guraAbu Albayoni has been expl. in art. byn . ― -b2- AlguraAbu is the name of (assumed tropical:) One of the southern constellations, [i. e. Corvus, ] consisting of seven stars [ in the enumeration of Ptolemy ], behind AlbaATiyap [which is Crater ], to the south of Als~imaAku AlA^aEozalu [i. e. Spica Virginis ]. (Kzw.) ― -b3- A^agoribapu AlEarabi is an appellation of (assumed tropical:) The blacks [lit. crows ] of the Arabs; the black Arabs: (K, TA:) likened to the birds called Agrbp , in respect of their complexion: (TA:) in all of them the blackness was derived from their mothers. (MF, TA.) The A^agoribap in the Time of Ignorance were 'Antarah and Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh (asserted to have been a Mukhadram, TA) and Aboo-'Omeyr Ibn-El- Hobáb and Suleyk Ibn-Es-Sulakeh (a famous runner, TA) and Hishám Ibn-'Okbeh-Ibn-AbeeMo'eyt; but this last was a Mukhadram: and those among the Islámees, 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Khá- zim and 'Omeyr Ibn-Abee-'Omeyr and Hemmám [in the CK Humám] Ibn-Mutarrif and Munteshir Ibn-Wahb and Matar Ibn-Abee-Owfà and Taäbbata-Sharrà and Esh-Shenfarà and Hájiz; to the last of whom is given no appellation of the kind called “ nisbeh, ” (K, TA,) in relation to father, mother, tribe, or place. (TA.) ― -b4- rijolu AlguraAbi signifies (assumed tropical:) A certain herb, called in the language of the Barbar A_iToriylaAl , (K, TA,) and in the present day zir~u AlA^axil~api , (MF,) resembling the $ibiv~ [q. v., variously written in different copies of the K,] in its stem and in its jum~ap [or node whence the flower grows ] and in its lower part, or root, except that its flower is white, and it forms grains like those of the maqoduwnis [app. scandix cerefolium or apium petroselinum ], (K, TA,) nearly: (TA:) a drachm of its seeds, bruised, and mixed with honey (K, TA) deprived of its froth, (TA,) is a tried medicine for eradicating [the species of leprosy which are called] the baraS and the bahaq , being drunk; and sometimes is added to it a quarter of a drachm of EaAqiro qaroHaA , (K, TA,) which is [commonly] known by the name of Ewd AlqrH [i. e. Euwdu AlqaroHi , both of these being names now applied to pyrethrum, i. e. pellitory of Spain, but the latter, accord. to Forskål (Flora Ægypt. Arab. p. cxix.), applied in El-Yemen to the cacalia sonchifolia, or to a species of senecio]; (TA;) the patient sitting in a hot sun, with the diseased parts uncovered: (K, TA:) [see also rijolN : now applied to the chelidonium hybridum of Linn., chelidoniu