غَارَةٌ
1.
, a subst. from أَغَارَ; A going away into a country, or land. (TA.)
2.
3.
[A raid; or an incursion into the territory of an enemy; or a sudden, or an unexpected, attack upon an enemy, or upon the territories or dwellings of an enemy, with a party of armed horsemen, and engagement with them in conflict; an urging of horses upon, or against, a people; generally, a hostile, or predatory, incursion: or the making such an incursion:] a subst. [or quasi-verbal noun] from أَغَارَ عَلَى
العَدُوِّ. (S, TA.)
4.
And Plunder, or pillage. (TA.)
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And hence, (Mgh, Msb,) [Horsemen making a raid, or a sudden, or an unexpected, attack, upon an enemy, or upon the dwellings of an enemy, and engaging with them in conflict: horsemen urging their horses upon, or against, a people:] i. q.
خَيْلٌ مُغِيرَةٌ: (S, Mgh, Msb, TA:) and one says also
خيل مِغِيرَةٌ, with kesr. (TA.) You say شَنَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الغَارَةَ i. e. He scattered, (S in article شن, and Mgh * and Msb, *) or poured, (K in article شن,) upon them [the horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, and engaging in conflict, or the horsemen urging their horses]. (S, K.) The poet (El-Kumeyt Ibn-Maaroof, TA) says,
[And we gave as a morning-drink to the people of Nejrán a troop of horsemen making a raid, or sudden attack, upon them, or urging their horses against them, namely the tribe of Temeem Ibn-Murr, and the piercing spears]: he means, سَقَيْنَاهُمْ خَيْلًا مُغِيرَةً: and تميم بن مرّ is put in the accusative case as a substitute for غارة. (S, TA.)وَنَحْنُ صَبَحْنَا الَ نَجْرَانَ غَارَةًتَمِيمَ بْنَ مُرٍّ وَالرِّمَاحَ النَّوَادِسَا
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حَبْلٌ
شَدِيدُ الغَارَةِ means A rope twisted hard; or hard in respect of the twisting; (S, TA;) غَارَةٌ being in this case [as in that first mentioned above] a subst. standing in stead of the verbal noun إِغَارَة: (TA:) and so
حَبْلٌ مُغَارٌ; (S, TA;) applied to a rope that is twisted with another. (TA voce مِسْحَلٌ.)