عير

عَارَ

To go, journey, or move to and fro.

Also used with فِي الأرض for going away in or into a land; of a person, to come and go or move about.

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عَارَ

To escape or get loose and wander hither and thither, especially through restlessness or excessive liveliness.

Applied to animals such as horses and dogs, and also figuratively to things that circulate or move about.

• Lane · entry 5451

عَارَ

To become current or widely circulated.

Used figuratively of news, an ode, or a verse; the figurative extension is explicitly reported as such in some attestations.

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عَارَ

To go among people causing mischief, including by striking them with a sword.

A specialized description of a person's moving among a group while attacking or troubling them.

• Lane · entry 5451

عَارَ

Of a male camel, to leave females advanced in pregnancy and go to others to mate with them.

A specialized animal-husbandry usage.

• Lane · entry 5451

عَارَهُ

To take someone or something and go away with it; hence, to destroy it.

The transitive construction may describe carrying an object away or causing its destruction.

• Lane · entry 5451

عَارَهُ / عَيَّرَهُ

To blame, reproach, upbraid, or accuse someone of a fault.

The Form II construction may take the reproached matter directly or, in a less approved usage, with بِهِ; it can also mean charging someone with disgraceful conduct.

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عَيَّرَ / عَايَرَ

To measure, weigh, compare, or test measures and weighing instruments against one another.

Used of checking the correctness or equality of measures, balances, and monetary pieces; the sources distinguish the preferred Form III usage in some constructions.

• Lane · entry 5452
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عَيَّرَ

Of water, to become covered with the green growth called طُحْلُب.

A reported usage whose attribution is questioned in the lexical discussion, which suggests another verb as more probable.

• Lane · entry 5452

عَايَرَ

To assay or test gold and similar material.

Reported as an extension of measuring or comparing for conformity.

• Lane · entry 5453

أَعَارَ / مُعَارٌ

To cause a horse or dog to escape or run loose, wandering about from liveliness.

The passive participial description مُعَارٌ refers to an animal made to escape or run about.

• Lane · entry 5454
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أَعْيَرَ / مُعْيَرٌ

To give an arrowhead, spearhead, sword blade, knife blade, or similar object its central raised ridge.

The resulting blade is described as having عَيْرٌ, a prominent central line or ridge.

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أَعَارَتْ

Of a mare, to raise and shift a hoof.

A specialized equine expression.

• Lane · entry 5454

إِعَارَةٌ

The lending of garments and similar articles.

A reported derived noun associated with the Form IV entry.

• Lane · entry 5454

أَعَارَ / مُعَارٌ

In horse terminology, to fatten a horse; also reported, with differing explanations, of plucking the hair of its tail or making it lean and light of flesh.

These are specialized and partly variant explanations of the horse-related Form IV usage; they should not be generalized beyond that context.

• Lane · entry 5454
• Lane · entry 5470

يَتَعَيَّرُونَ

To ask neighbors to lend household goods; to borrow them.

A Form V usage explicitly equated with seeking a loan of household articles.

• Lane · entry 5455

تَعَايَرُوا

To blame, reproach, revile, or vilify one another.

A reciprocal Form VI construction, also explained as exchanging accusations of disgrace.

• Lane · entry 5456

عَارٌ

Disgrace, shame, vice, or a fault that occasions blame or reproach.

The plural may denote things for which a person is blamed or reproached.

• Lane · entry 5458

عَيْرٌ

An ass, whether wild or domestic, especially the wild ass.

The word occurs in proverbs and comparisons, including expressions concerning an ass that has gone away; its traditional derivation connects it with wandering to and fro.

• Lane · entry 5459

جَوْفُ عَيْرٍ

An empty or unproductive place, figuratively a place in which there is no useful good.

A fixed idiomatic expression, literally “the belly of an ass.”

• Lane · entry 5459

عَيْرٌ

A lord, chief, or king of a people.

A nominal usage distinct from the animal sense; it appears in proverbial language about succession from one lord to another.

• Lane · entry 5459

عَيْرُ السَّرَاةِ

A particular bird resembling a pigeon.

A regional bird-name, associated with al-Sarāt; its plural is عُيُورُ السَّرَاةِ.

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عَيْرٌ

A prominence, ridge, or protuberant central part: the ridge of a blade, the midrib of a leaf, a spine or raised part of the shoulder, foot, hand or body, a ridge of rock, or a raised strip of an otherwise even surface.

The term is extended to various raised anatomical and physical structures. The hand attribution is textually questioned and may refer instead to the shoulder; the broader sense of a prominent part is secure.

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عَيْرٌ

A prominent or visible part associated with the eye, variously explained as the part at the pupil, the eyelid, the inner angle, the image in the black of the eye, the eyeball, or a glance.

The lexical authorities give several competing anatomical and idiomatic interpretations; the expression قَبْلَ عَيْرٍ وَمَا جَرَى refers to an instant or glance before something could occur.

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عَيْرٌ

The tragus or another inner part of the ear; in horse terminology, one of the prominent back portions of the ears.

The anatomical referent varies among the cited explanations.

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عَيْرٌ

A wooden pin, peg, or stake fixed in the ground or in a wall.

The sense underlies idiomatic and poetic expressions whose precise interpretation is disputed, including phrases involving striking or hunting the عَيْر.

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عَيْرٌ

A piece of wood in the front part of a هَوْدَج, a covered travel litter.

A specialized object-name.

• Lane · entry 5459

عَيْرٌ

A drum.

A reported nominal sense, also proposed by some interpreters for a poetic occurrence.

• Lane · entry 5459

عَيْرٌ

A mountain, including mountains known by this name near Medina or, according to one report, Mecca.

A geographical name as well as a common noun in the cited lexical account.

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الأَعْيَارُ

A group of bright stars in the track of the feet of Canopus.

A plural astronomical name.

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عَيْرَانٌ / عَيْرَانَةٌ

A swift, brisk, hardy male or female camel.

The name compares the camel's quickness and frequent circling with that of the wild ass.

• Lane · entry 5461

عِيَارٌ

A standard or measure by which something is measured, compared, adjusted, or equalized; of coins, the rate or standard of fineness.

Used of measures, weights, balances, and the quantity of pure silver or gold in currency.

• Lane · entry 5463

عِيَارَةٌ

The currency or circulation of a poem.

A specialized literary usage referring to how widely a poem is current.

• Lane · entry 5464

عُيَيْرٌ

In the expression عُيَيْرُ وَحْدِهِ, a person who relies on his own opinion, does not consult or mix with others, or eats alone.

A conventional diminutive expression of dispraise, with some variation in the precise characterization.

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عَائِرٌ

Going to and fro, roaming, or constantly in motion; hence brisk, lively, or restless.

Applied to people, dogs, horses, sheep that move between flocks, camels that leave one group of females for another, and lions ranging in search of prey. Of a person it may also suggest unrestrained pursuit of natural desire.

• Lane · entry 5468

عَائِرٌ

Unidentified or unclaimed: an arrow from an unknown shooter, or fallen fruit whose owner is unknown.

A specialized adjectival use describing an object whose source or owner cannot be identified.

• Lane · entry 5468

مِعَارٌ

A horse that turns away from the road with its rider.

A specialized equine noun; the lexical discussion distinguishes it from a derivation through عَارِيَّةٌ.

• Lane · entry 5471

مِعْيَرٌ

A calamity or hardship.

Used especially in the fixed expressions اِبْنَةُ مِعْيَرٍ and بَنَاتُ مِعْيَرٍ.

• Lane · entry 5473

مُسْتَعِيرٌ

Resembling an ass, especially in physical build.

A descriptive adjective, not the Form X verbal sense suggested by its pattern.

• Lane · entry 5478