عقر

عَقَرَ

To wound or hurt.

A general Form I use, broader than the Quranic animal-hamstringing construction.

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عَقْر

The act of wounding, or a notch-like wound or mark, especially in the legs of a horse or camel.

Describes the wound or mark itself as well as the act that produces it.

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عَقَرَ

To slaughter a camel by stabbing it.

The usage is associated with first hocking or disabling the camel so that it cannot escape.

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عَقَرَ

To slay or destroy someone.

An extended resultative use of the wounding and disabling sense.

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عَقْرَى

An imprecation invoking wounding or affliction; in the expression عَقْرَى حَلْقَى, a curse or reproach directed at a woman.

The expression is conventionally imprecatory rather than a literal prediction. It can also characterize a woman regarded as bringing destructive ill luck upon her people.

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عَقَرَ بِهِ

To detain, restrain, or hinder someone from proceeding.

The construction is figurative: as a hocked camel cannot travel, the person is held back from a journey or intended action.

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عَقَرَ بِالصَّيْدِ

To make extensive slaughter among hunted animals.

A hunting expression describing repeated or substantial destruction of game.

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عَقَرَ بِهِمْ

To strike people's souls or wound their hearts.

A figurative construction describing a powerful emotional impact.

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عَقَرَ النَّخْلَةَ

To cut off a palm tree's crown and heart so that it dries up and no longer produces.

The cutting is from the top and through the central heart of the palm, with destruction of its future growth.

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عَقَرَ

To cut down trees or herbage and spoil the pasture.

Used of vegetation and pasture-land rather than of an animal's legs.

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عَقَرَ الكَلَأَ

To eat or use herbage as pasture.

A specialized pastoral use in which the object is pasture or herbage.

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عَقَرَ

Of wine, to disable or overwhelm the intellect.

A figurative comparison with disabling an animal by hocking it.

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عَقَرَ

To gall or abrade an animal's back.

The injury may be caused by a saddle or other equipment rubbing the back.

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عُقِرَتْ

To demolish or destroy a well.

A passive use describing the well as ruined.

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عَقِرَ

To be seized by sudden fright or stupor so that the legs fail and one cannot advance, retreat, fight, or speak.

The state is an involuntary paralysis associated with terror or stupefaction.

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عَاقِر

Barren or unable to generate offspring; by extension, not producing.

Beyond the Quranic use for a wife, the adjective is applied in Classical Arabic to men, women, camels and other animals, trees, tracts of land, and affairs that yield no result.

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أَعْقَرَ

To render a womb barren or cause a woman not to conceive.

A causative Form IV use, with the womb or its condition understood as the affected object.

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تَعَاقَرَ

For two people to hamstring or slaughter their camels in rivalry with one another.

The construction denotes competitive display of munificence or skill in camel slaughter.

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عَاقَرَ

To engage someone in dialogue, disputation, or mutual reviling and satire.

A reciprocal Form III use, including debate accompanied by cursing or abuse.

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عَاقَرَ

To cling or apply oneself persistently to wine, or to contend with it for mastery.

The construction can describe either prolonged attachment to drinking or the figurative contest between the drinker and the wine.

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أَعْقَرَ

To stupefy someone so that his legs fail and he cannot proceed or fight.

A causative Form IV use derived from the state of panic or stupefaction.

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أَعْقَرَ

To assign someone a grant of land or give permission to pasture animals in a specified place.

The grant is conceived as providing a usable allotment or pasture.

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مُعْقِر

Possessing much property or becoming possessed of substantial fixed wealth.

The adjective refers especially to property classed as عَقَار.

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اِنْعَقَرَ

To become hocked, hamstrung, or otherwise disabled in the legs; of a back, to become galled by a saddle.

A Form VII intransitive or passive-resultative use applied to animals and their backs.

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عَقِير

Wounded, hamstrung, or struck in the legs; of a camel, also stabbed and slaughtered.

Applied to people and animals; the animal may be unable to run because its hock-tendon or legs have been cut.

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عُقْر

Barrenness, non-conception, or failure to produce; also the drying up and perishing of a palm.

The noun can be used of a woman, man, camel, palm, or figuratively of war or another process that has become unproductive or still.

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عُقْر

Compensation or a dowry-like payment owed to a woman for sexual intercourse, especially intercourse under a claim of doubt or following violation.

The term is explained as connected with the wounding associated with defloration or sexual violation.

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بَيْضَةُ العُقْرِ

A reported means of testing virginity; in the idiom, a final or one-time occurrence that is not repeated.

The lexical accounts differ over which egg the expression originally denoted. The idiom can also characterize a person without offspring or a person who stands another in no stead.

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عُقْر

A grant or allotment of land.

A property grant, synonymous with a provision or endowment.

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عُقْرُ الحَوْضِ

The rear or principal station of a watering trough, where animals stand or where the bucket is emptied.

The exact point varies by dialect and account, but it denotes a recognized part or station at the trough or well.

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عَقِرَة

A she-camel that drinks only from the rear or principal part of a watering trough.

One lexical report instead explains the word as describing an animal that drinks only out of fear; the rear-of-trough interpretation is also directly reported.

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عُقَرَة

A bead or amulet associated with preventing or inducing conception.

Reports differ over whether it was carried by a barren woman to prevent or to obtain conception.

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عُقَرَةُ العِلْمِ

Forgetfulness as that which renders knowledge unproductive or causes it to be lost.

A figurative conventional expression derived from the notion of making something barren.

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عَقْر

The essential, principal, or foundational part of something; especially the established central part of a dwelling or country.

عَقْرُ الدَّارِ denotes the settled core or principal place of a people's abode, sometimes understood as its heart or stronghold.

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عَقَار

Real or immovable property, such as land, a revenue-yielding estate, a house, or palm trees.

The plural refers to estates or other fixed property that has an enduring base.

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عَقَار

Household goods, furniture, and utensils, especially the best or reserved items used on important occasions.

This use is distinct from real property and can refer to valuable household effects collectively.

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عُقَار

Wine.

The name is explained through wine's taking hold of or disabling the intellect, its remaining in the wine-jar, or the drinker's close attachment to it.

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عَقُور

A biting or predatory animal that wounds, kills, seizes, and breaks the neck of its prey.

Applied especially to a dog and also to lions, lynxes, leopards, wolves, and similar animals; it is an intensive epithet.

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عَقِيرَة

A hunted or wild animal that has been wounded, hocked, or struck in the legs.

The feminine form is used in the sense of a passive participle for wounded game and similar animals.

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عَقِيرَة

A high-ranking or notable man who has been slain.

A conventional extension from the image of a wounded or fallen person of distinction.

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عَقِيرَة

A cut or severed leg or shank.

The noun names the injured limb itself.

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عَقِيرَة

The voice or cry; hence, to raise one's voice, sing, recite, or call out loudly.

The idiom رَفَعَ عَقِيرَتَهُ is traditionally explained from a wounded person raising his injured leg and crying out.

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عَقَّار

A medicinal plant, drug, or mixture of medicinal ingredients.

The plural عَقَاقِير refers to medicines and medicinal substances, especially those derived from plants, roots, or trees.

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جَيِّدُ العَقَاقِيرِ

Figuratively, of excellent manufacture or workmanship.

A specialized figurative expression, reported in connection with well-made iron.

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مِعْقَر

A saddle that habitually galls an animal's back; also a person who galls camels' backs by overworking or urging them.

The instrumental noun distinguishes habitual or repeated galling from a single accidental abrasion.

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مُعْقَرَة

A woman whose womb has been rendered barren.

A passive Form IV participial description, with barrenness presented as caused or imposed rather than as an ordinary active property.

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مُعْتَقَر

A place where an animal's back is galled or where galling occurs.

A place noun associated with the act or result of galling a camel or similar animal.

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