قَارِيءٌ

as an epithet applied to a she-camel; plural قَوَارِيءُ: see 1, former half.

Also Reading, or reciting, the Qur'an [&c.]; or a reader, or reciter, thereof: (K, TA:) and sometimes the ء is suppressed, so that one says قَارٍ: (TA:) plural قَرَأَةٌ and قُرَّاءٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and قَارِيءُونَ. (Msb, K.)

And synonym with قُرَّاءٌ, q. v. (K.)

See also قَرْءٌ, first quarter, in two places.

هٰذَا وَقْتُ قَارِيءِ الرِّيحِ means This is the time of the blowing of the wind. (TA.)

It is also said to signify The top, or upper part, of a قَصْر [or pavilion, &c.]. (O.)