قَرْنٌ

One's equal in age; synonym لِدَةٌ, (K,) or تِرْبٌ: with fet-h when relating to age, and with kesr when relating to fighting and the like. (Har, pp. 572,64.)

قَرْنٌ, (JK, Msb,) or قَرْنٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ, (S,) [A generation of men;] people of one time (JK, * S, Ez-Zejjájee, Msb,) succeeding another قَرْن, (JK,) among whom is a prophet, or class of learned men, whether its years be many or few. (Ez-Zejjájee, Msb.)

قَرْنٌ The part of the head of a human being which in an animal is the place whence the horn grows: (K:) or the side, (S,) or upper side, (K,) of the head: (S, K:) or [more exactly the temporal ridge (see صُدْغٌ) i. e.] the edge of the هَامَة (which is the middle and main part of the head [i. e. of the cranium]), on the right and on the left. (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán. ”)

قُرُونٌ of the head: see a verse cited voce خَيَّطَ. قُرُونٌ of horses: see أَجَمُّ.

قَرْنٌ of a solid hoof: see جُبَّةٌ.

قَرْنٌ of a desert, the most elevated particle (TA in article جحف.)

قَرْنُ أَعْفَرَ, as meaning A spear-head, see أَعْفَرُ.

قَرْنٌ A pod, like that of the locust tree: plural قُرُونٌ. Occurring often in the work of AHn on plants, and in the TA, &c. See غَافٌ.

قَرْنٌ [A thing] in a she-camel, which is like the عَفَل in a woman; and which is cauterized with heated stones. (AA, TA, in article عفل.)

قَرْنٌ An issue of sweat: plural قُرُونٌ: see two example voce سَنَّ.