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أَرُزٌّ ذ and ↓ أُرُزٌّ and ↓ أُرْزٌ and ↓ أُرُزٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ أَرُزٌ and ↓ آرُزٌ (Kr, K) and رُزٌ (S, Msb, K) and رُنْزٌ, (S, K,) the first of which is the form commonly obtaining among persons of distinction; the last but one, that commonly obtaining among the vulgar; (TA;) and the last, of the dial. of 'AbdEl-Keys; (S, TA;) [Rice;] a certain grain, (S, K,) well known: (K:) [said in the TA to be a species of بُرّ; but this is an improper explanation:] there are several kinds; Egyptian and Persian and Indian; and the best kind is the جوهرى [perhaps a mistake for مِصْرىّ, or Egyptian]: it is cold and dry in the second degree; or, as some say, moderate; or, as some say, hot in the first degree; and its husk is poisonous. (El-Minháj, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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