عرر

عَرَّتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels: to become affected with mange, scab, or a related purulent skin eruption.

The disease may appear as dispersed pustules, discharge, or loss of fur; the same verb is also used of the disease attacking the body.

• Lane · entry 2602

عَرٌّ

Mange, scab, or a purulent skin disease affecting animals.

Descriptions include pustules on young camels and a disease causing the fur to fall away so that the skin shows.

• Lane · entry 2610

عَرَّ

To dung or defecate; to manure land; or to befoul something with dung.

The intransitive use may be said of a bird; transitive uses concern land or an object defiled with dung.

• Lane · entry 2602

عَرَّهُ

To sully or bespatter someone with evil; to accuse, disgrace, wrong, revile, or injuriously deprive him.

The verb is also used of bringing an abominable charge against a person or group, applying a disgraceful nickname, or doing what another dislikes.

• Lane · entry 2602

عَرَّهُ

For an unwelcome or distressing thing to befall someone.

This use is explained as equivalent to a thing coming upon or overtaking him.

• Lane · entry 2602

عَرَّهُ

To alight at someone's abode as a visitor or guest.

This is a conventional visiting construction distinct from approaching someone to seek bounty.

• Lane · entry 2602

عَارَّ

Of a male ostrich: to cry or utter a call.

The corresponding call of the female ostrich is distinguished in the lexical description.

• Lane · entry 2604

أَعَرَّتِ الدَّارُ

For a house to contain dung or human ordure, especially in abundance.

The construction describes a place in which such filth is present.

• Lane · entry 2605

تَعَارَّ

To awaken from sleep during the night with speech, a sound, or a cry, and remain restless.

The construction may include turning over in bed while speaking or making a sound.

• Lane · entry 2606

اِسْتَعَرَّهُمُ الجَرَبُ

For mange or scab to appear and spread among a group.

The subject is the disease, and the object is the group among whom it spreads.

• Lane · entry 2608

عَرٌّ

A vice, fault, evil, or mischief; something morally foul or harmful.

This figurative noun extends the language of physical affliction and contamination to moral conduct and its effects.

• Lane · entry 2610

عُرَّة

Madness or a condition understood as resulting from diabolical possession.

It occurs in the expression بِهِ عُرَّةٌ, ‘there is madness in him.’

• Lane · entry 2613

عُرَّة

Dung or ordure, including animal dung and human excrement.

The term can refer to dung of birds, camels, sheep, goats, and other animals, as well as human ordure.

• Lane · entry 2613

عُرَّة

Dirt or filth.

This is the general physical-filth use, distinct from the more specific use for dung.

• Lane · entry 2613

عُرَّة

Moral filth, a disgrace, vice, fault, or abominable act that exposes someone to blame.

As an epithet of a person, it may describe someone dirty, disgraced, or a source of shame to his people; it can also denote an evil act done to another.

• Lane · entry 2613

عَرَر

Manginess or scabbiness.

Some authorities use it for the disease itself, while others use it for the condition of being mangy or scabby.

• Lane · entry 2614

عَرَار

A sweet-scented plant with intensely yellow blossoms, identified with a kind of ox-eye or wild narcissus.

The noun has a singulative form in ـة and is also used for related plant identifications.

• Lane · entry 2615

عَرَار

Retaliation by killing, wounding, or mutilation; also the thing slain in retaliation for another.

The term is used in the sense of legal or customary equivalence and retaliation.

• Lane · entry 2615

عَرِير

A stranger or outsider among a people.

The word can describe one who is attached to or present among people without belonging to them.

• Lane · entry 2617

عَرْعَر

A large evergreen mountain tree, identified variously with cypress, juniper, or a related tree.

The botanical identifications vary among authorities; the word is also treated as a plant name rather than a productive semantic derivative.

• Lane · entry 2618

عِرَار

An imitative representation of the rustling or hissing sound of wind.

The same sound-naming branch is extended to the call of the male ostrich.

• Mufradāt · row 959

عَرْعَار

A children's calling game in which a child raises his voice so that other children come out to him.

The name is treated as an imitation of a cry or calling sound.

• Mufradāt · row 959

عَارّ

Affected with mange or scab; said of a camel and, in one usage, of a person.

The adjective denotes the bearer of the disease rather than the disease itself.

• Lane · entry 2620

أَعَرُّ

Worse or more evil than another.

This comparative figurative use is explicitly associated with the synonymous pairing of evil terms.

• Lane · entry 2622

مَعَرَّة

A place containing mange or scab.

This is identified as the primary concrete signification of the noun.

• Lane · entry 2623

مَعَرَّة

The region of the sky beyond the Milky Way toward the North Pole; in some accounts, a star or asterism below the Milky Way.

The name is explained by comparison of the numerous stars with scabs on a body.

• Lane · entry 2623

مَعَرَّة

A sin, crime, offense, cause of disgrace or reviling, foul act, or source of vexation.

This figurative branch describes conduct or a circumstance that brings blame, grief, annoyance, or moral reproach.

• Lane · entry 2623

مَعَرَّة

Unauthorized harm or depredation inflicted by an army on people among whom it passes.

The construction may refer to fighting or killing without the commander's permission, taking produce, oppressing inhabitants, or violating their persons and property.

• Lane · entry 2623

مَعَرَّة

A debt, fine, or mulct that one is obliged to pay, including a fine for homicide.

The term may also denote an unwelcome financial liability associated with a killing.

• Lane · entry 2623

مَعْرُور

Dunged or treated with عُرَّة; said of a palm tree or land.

This is a passive agricultural use referring to the application of dung or ordure.

• Lane · entry 2624

مَعْرُور

Sullied or bespattered with evil; wronged, reviled, or deprived of property.

This passive-personal use belongs to the figurative branch of being charged with or afflicted by evil.

• Lane · entry 2624

مُعْتَرّ

A visiting guest.

This is a Classical usage of the active participle distinct from the Quranic use of one approaching to seek bounty.

• Lane · entry 2625

عُرْعُرَة

The top, highest part, or crest of something; specifically the tip of a hump, and by extension a fat or distinguished person.

These elevated or status-related uses are reported as a separate Classical branch of the root.

• Maqāyīs · row 3168

عَرْعَرَ

To work at or manipulate something rapidly, especially something difficult to remove or handle.

Examples include working meat away from a bone or working at the neck of a bottle to extract it.

• Maqāyīs · row 3168