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1 ↗warà; 2a to hide, conceal, keep secret, secrete (s.th.); b to allude (ʕan bi‑ to s.th., with); c to pretend, feign, affect, simulate (bi‑ s.th.) – WehrCowan1976

conc

▪ The D-stem vb. warrà appears with several meanings that seem to have different etymologies. While (1) ‘to strike fire’ is from ↗warà ‘to kindle, take fire’, (2) ‘to hide, conceal, etc.’ is prob. denom. from ↗warāʔ ‘back, rear’; a third warrà with the meaning (3) ‘to show’ is widespread in dialAr, but lost in fuṣḥà (see ↗²warrà).
▪ The D-stem vb. ¹warrà ‘to hide, conceal, keep secret; to pretend, feign, simulate’ seems to be a denom. caus. formation (*‘to make disappear behind..., hold back’) based on ↗warāʔ ‘back, rear’. Note, however, that, for DRS, this dependence is not self-evident: the authors tentatively keep their value #1 ‘back, rear, behind’ separate from #2 ‘to hide, conceal’.
▪ For warāʔ ‘back, rear’, MilitarevKogan2000 (SED I) #10 reconstruct (on account of cognates in Akk and Gz – strange distribution!) Sem *ʔ˅rāw-, *w˅rāʔ- ‘back’ which in turn may go back (together with cognates outside Sem) to a hypothetical AfrAs *ʔ/wiray/w- ‘back’.
▪ tawriyaẗ ‘double-entendre, allusion’ is a regular vn. formed from the D-stem vb. Thus, the original meaning of tawriyaẗ as a key concept of literary aesthetics is *‘hiding, concealment’ (sc. of a less overt, parallel meaning).
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hist

▪ wārà (vb. III), 1 (to cover) Q 5:31 fa-baʕaṯa ’llāhu ġurāban yabḥaṯu fī ’l-ʔarḍi li-yuriya-hū kayfa yuwārī sawʔaẗa ʔaḫī-hi ‘then God sent a raven scratching up the ground to show him how to cover his brother’s corpse’; 2 (to conceal, to hide’ Q 7:26 qad ʔanzalnā ʕalay-kum libāsan yuwārī sawʔāti-kum ‘We have given you garments to hide your shameful parts’
▪ tawārà (vb. VI, to hide o.s.) Q 16:56 yatawārā mina ’l-qawmi min sūʔi mā buššira bi-hī ‘he hides away from the people because of [what he considers to be] the evil of what he has been told’
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►tawarrà, vb. V, 1 = IV; 2 to hide, conceal o.s. (ʕan, min from): tD-stem, self-ref.
►tawriyaẗ, n.f., 1 hiding, concealment; 2 dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; 3 equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, allusion: vn. II

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗warà (vb.), ↗warāʔ, ↗tawriyaẗ, ↗²warrà (prob. related: ↗tawrāẗ), and al- ↗warà (n.), as well as, for the larger picture, root entry ↗WRY.

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