طَهُور

TahuwrN * inf. n. of 1; as also TuhuwrN : (TA:) and inf. n. [or rather quasi-inf. n.] of 5. (Sb, Mgh, TA.) ― -b2- A thing [such as water] with which one cleanses or purifies: (T, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) a word similar to faTuwrN and saHuwrN and waquwdN : (S:) and the author of the “ Matáli' el-Anwár ” mentions TuhuwrN also in this sense; but this is strange and anomalous: (En-Nawawee:) the former occurs in the Kur xxv. 50: (S:) or it signifies water with which the ablution termed wuDuwo' is performed: (A, IAth:) or it has the signification next following. (K.) It is said, Alt~awobapu TahuwrN lilomu*onibi (tropical:) [ Repentance is a means of purifying the sinner, or criminal ]. (A.) Lth says that it is that which is [accompanied] by the execution of the prescribed punishment, such as stoning &c. (TA.) [See also maToharapN .] -A2- It is also an epithet, (Mgh, TA,) and signifies Clean and cleansing, or pure and purifying: (Th, T, Mgh, Msb:) whatever God has created descending from the sky, or welling forth from the earth as a spring or river or sea, in which a human being does nothing but drawing water, and of which the colour is not changed by anything mixing with it, nor the taste thereby, is Tahuwr : and what is otherwise, as the water of roses and of the leaves of trees, and what flows from the grape-vine, though it be TaAhir , is not Tahuwr : (Esh-Sháfi'ee:) the former removes impurities: the latter, if not at the same time Tahuwr , does not: (TA:) or very clean or pure: (A, Msb:) the explanation by Th, if meant to show that the word signifies of the utmost cleanness or pureness, is correct and good: otherwise, it is not so; for faEuwlN is not formed from tafoEiylN : (Mgh, O:) it is also explained as signifying, simply, cleansing, or purifying: (B, TA:) also as syn. with TaAhirN , as in the phrase riyquhun~a TahuwrN [ their saliva is pure ]: but here it is either an intensive epithet or used for TaAhirN for the sake of the measure. (Msb.)