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صَرَّ

To make a prolonged, creaking, grating, or otherwise sustained sound; of birds and other creatures, to cry or call out, sometimes with great vehemence.

Includes the sound of a writing reed, door, tooth, mast, locust, sparrow, or other creature. The reduplicative form is used for a light, repeated, or quavering cry.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّ

Of the ear, to tingle, ring, or sound; also, to suffer thirst in the associated idiom.

The ear-ringing is described as resulting from thirst; the lexical evidence also records thirst as a verbal use.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّ

To tie or bind; by extension, to confine, withhold, hinder, or prevent.

Used of tying a purse or other object, and in broader expressions for restriction or confinement.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّ

To stop milking a she-camel by binding her udder.

A specialized, explicitly marked figurative extension of the udder-binding construction.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّ

Of a leathern bucket, to be tied with loop-shaped handles attached within it.

A technical description of a flaccid bucket and its handles.

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• Lane · entry 25691

صَرَّ

To close or obstruct a road, town, or means of escape.

Recorded as a figurative construction meaning that no passage or way out remains.

• Lane · entry 25685
• Lane · entry 25698

صَرَّ

Of a horse or ass, to contract, straighten, or raise its ears, especially to listen or while exerting itself.

The verb may occur with or without explicit mention of the ears.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّ

To collect or gather things, including property, camels, or scattered extremities.

The reduplicative verbal noun صَرْصَرَةٌ is also recorded for gathering scattered property or animals back together.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّ

Of a plant or herbage, to become struck by cold or intense cold.

A specialized intransitive use concerning damage from cold.

• Lane · entry 25685

صَرَّرَ

Of a she-camel, to precede or get ahead.

A distinct Form II verbal use.

• Lane · entry 25686

صَارَّ

To compel someone, against his will, to do a thing.

The object is the person compelled, with عَلَى introducing the matter involved.

• Lane · entry 25687

أَصَرَّ

To persist or persevere in something; to remain determined or resolved to continue it.

Especially used of persisting in wrongdoing or sin, but also of a firm decision more generally.

• Lane · entry 25688

أَصَرَّ

To hasten somewhat while running.

A reported and disputed lexicographical usage; one authority attributes it to this verb while another treats the form as a possible transcriptional error.

• Lane · entry 25688

أَصَرَّ

Of grain, to put forth the tips of its awns before the ears have fully developed.

Also described as the ears becoming صَرَر, a technical agricultural state.

• Lane · entry 25688

اِصْطَرَّرَ

Of a solid hoof, to become narrow or contracted.

The contraction is characterized as excessive or unsightly in the fuller description.

• Lane · entry 25689

صِرّ

Intense cold, especially cold that damages herbage or field produce.

The same noun is also applied to a wind that is intensely cold or, according to another attested explanation, vehemently loud. A Quran citation is reported in the lexical discussion, but its historical citation notation is not converted here into a modern location.

• Lane · entry 25692

صِرّ

A small yellow bird, like a sparrow, named for its cry.

The term may also be applied to the sparrow itself according to one report.

• Lane · entry 25692

صَرَّة

A vehement cry, vociferation, or clamour.

Applied to the intense crying of a person, bird, or other creature; a Quran citation is reported in the lexical entry without a modern location being inferred from the historical notation.

• Lane · entry 25693

صَرَّة

Vehemence or intensity of grief, anxiety, war, heat, or the hot season.

A broader nominal extension from forceful or intense conditions.

• Lane · entry 25693

صَرَّة

Contraction and sternness of the face caused by dislike or hatred.

The meaning includes moroseness or a drawn facial expression.

• Lane · entry 25693

صَرَّة

A company, collection, herd, or assemblage.

The cited poetic expression may also be interpreted as referring to clamour or grief; the group sense is independently recorded.

• Lane · entry 25693

صَرَّة

A bead or charm said to fascinate a man and keep him from other women.

A specialized traditional or magical usage.

• Lane · entry 25693

صُرَّة

A purse or pouch for money.

The word is also used in a proverb about opening one's inner recesses and recognizing one's faults or virtues.

• Lane · entry 25694

صَرَر

The ears of corn after the culm has formed but before the ears become fully apparent or their farina emerges.

The term covers described stages in which the leaves or ear tips may become twisted, dry, or tough.

• Lane · entry 25696

صِرَار

A cord, rag, or other device tied over a she-camel's udder or teats to prevent the young from suckling.

The term denotes the physical binding device and its use in customary camel husbandry.

• Lane · entry 25698

صِرَار

Elevated places over which water scarcely passes.

A topographical noun distinct from the udder-binding sense.

• Lane · entry 25698

صَرُورَة

A person who has not performed the pilgrimage to Mecca; also, one who has not married or had sexual intercourse and abstains from women.

Applied to men, women, or groups. The pilgrimage and celibacy uses are historically connected in the lexical discussion but remain distinct applications of the epithet.

• Lane · entry 25701

صَرِيرَة

Money or dirhams tied up in a purse.

An explicit equivalent of مَصْرُورَة.

• Lane · entry 25702

صَرَارِيّ

A sailor or mariner.

The morphology and singular-versus-plural analysis are disputed in the lexical discussion, but the sailor meaning is directly recorded.

• Lane · entry 25703

صِرَّى

A firm determination, resolution, or serious assertion, especially in an oath.

The expression signifies that the speaker is committed and not joking; related forms are treated as nominalized or altered forms of the verb أَصَرَّ.

• Lane · entry 25707

صَرِّيّ

A dirhem or dinar that rings when struck; in a negative expression, a coin or any money.

Some authorities report the word chiefly or only in negative phrases.

• Lane · entry 25709

الصَّرَّار

A cricket or other small flying creature that creaks or chirps, especially at night.

The entry identifies it with the جُدْجُد and related nocturnal creaking insects.

• Lane · entry 25712

صُرَّان

A plant or growth found in hard ground, including growth on certain trees.

A botanical noun with no Quranic application established in the packet.

• Lane · entry 25713

صَرْصَر

A ground-dwelling insect that creaks during the spring season.

A zoological use distinct from the Quranic adjective.

• Lane · entry 25714

صَرْصَر

A cock, named for its cry.

A zoological designation derived from the bird's vocalization.

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صَرْصَرَانِيّ

A camel intermediate between a Bactrian and an Arabian camel, or a camel of the type called فَوَالِج.

The term is recorded as the singular of صَرْصَرَانِيَّات.

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صَرْصَرَانِيّ

A smooth marine fish of a specified species.

A separate zoological use of the same headword.

• Lane · entry 25717

صُرْصُور

A large camel, including a Bactrian camel, its offspring, or an excellent stallion-camel.

The exact application varies among authorities and related camel terms.

• Lane · entry 25718

صُرْصُور

A ship or boat, especially a long or large one.

A separate nautical noun.

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الصَّرَاصِرَة

The Nabataeans of Syria.

A collective ethnonym.

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صَارّ

A man whose face is contracted between the eyes as in grief or mourning.

An adjectival description of a particular facial expression.

• Lane · entry 25720

صَارّ

Trees that are tangled, luxuriant, abundant, and dense in their lower parts, providing shade.

A descriptive use for densely interwoven vegetation.

• Lane · entry 25720

صَارَّة

A want, need, requisite, or object of desire.

Used in the expression of having a need to be supplied by another person.

• Lane · entry 25721

صَارَّة

Thirst.

The plural and the attribution of this sense are discussed with some lexicographical disagreement.

• Lane · entry 25721

صُوَيْرَّة

Narrow in disposition, mind, judgment, or opinion.

A diminutive or specialized adjectival form.

• Lane · entry 25726

أَصَرّ

Hard; of a stone or rock, hard or smooth.

Applied to a hard stone and, in the feminine form, to a hard or smooth rock.

• Lane · entry 25727

مَصَرَّتَا

The two sphincters that restrain urine and feces.

An anatomical dual expression.

• Lane · entry 25731

مُصِرَّة

A she-camel that does not yield milk copiously.

A specialized description of a camel's limited milk production.

• Lane · entry 25732

مُصَرَّاة

A female animal left unmilked so that milk collects in her udder.

Applied to a ewe, she-goat, or similar animal; the lexical discussion notes that the form may properly belong to another root.

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مَصْرُور

Bound, especially as a captive.

A passive participial use of the binding sense.

• Lane · entry 25735

مَصْرُور

Of a she-camel, having the udder bound with a صِرَار.

A specialized passive participle referring to camel husbandry.

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مَصْرُور

Of a solid hoof, contracted or narrow.

The fuller description adds that the contraction may be excessive or unsightly.

• Lane · entry 25735

مَصْرُور

A man with an iron collar placed around his neck, or around his neck and hands together.

A figurative or punitive passive-participial use.

• Lane · entry 25735

مَصَارّ

The intestines or bowels into which food passes from the stomach.

The form is treated as an irregular plural in the lexical discussion.

• Lane · entry 25736

مُصْطَرَّة

Of a woman, narrow in the flanks.

A specialized bodily description; it is not generalized beyond the explicitly recorded construction.

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