صرر

صَرَّ

To make a prolonged sound or noise; to creak, grate, or cry out.

Said of things such as a locust, writing-reed, door, tooth, mast, or bird; the reduplicated form may express a light or repeated cry.

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صَرَّ

Of the ear, to tingle, ring, or sound.

The expression صَرَّ صِمَاخُهُ is associated with thirst.

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صَرَّ

To thirst.

A lexical verb distinct from the ringing sensation that may accompany thirst.

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صَرٌّ

Binding, confinement, withholding, hindering, or preventing.

Includes the act of binding a captive and the broader notion of placing something under restraint.

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صَرَّ

To tie up a purse or money in a purse.

A concrete fastening use involving a container or bundle of money.

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صَرَّ

To bind a she-camel's udder or teats with a cord or band.

The binding prevents the young from suckling.

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صَرَّ

To leave off milking a she-camel.

A derived consequence of fastening or restricting the udder.

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صَرٌّ

A flaccid leather bucket tied so that its loop-shaped handles are held in place.

A specialized noun for the bucket and its tied construction.

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صَرَّ

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

A figurative construction in which passage or release is made unavailable.

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صَرَّ

To contract, point, or raise the ears, especially in alertness or exertion.

Said of a horse or ass, with or without explicit mention of the ears.

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صَرَّ

To collect something together and gather what has become scattered.

May be used of objects, speech held in the mind, property, or animals brought back from dispersion.

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صَرَّ

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

A verbal use describing damage from cold, distinct from the noun صِرّ for the cold itself.

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صَرَّرَ

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

A Form II lexical usage reported for the animal subject.

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صَارَّ

To compel someone against his will to do something.

Used with a person as the object of compulsion concerning an action.

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أَصَرَّ

To determine, resolve, or decide firmly upon something.

The resolve includes continuing without turning back; this is a broader Classical use than the Quranic persistence-in-sin sense.

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أَصَرَّ

To hasten somewhat while running.

A reported and disputed lexical usage, with disagreement over whether the form has been transmitted correctly.

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أَصَرَّ

Of grain, to put forth the extremities of its awns before the ears fully develop.

A specialized agricultural usage.

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إِصْطَرَّ

Of a solid hoof, to become narrow or contracted.

The contraction is described as excessive or unseemly in some formulations.

• Lane · entry 25689

صِرٌّ

An intensely cold wind; in another usage, a vehemently loud wind.

A construction with رِيحٌ, combining the cold and loud-wind branches reported for this noun.

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صِرٌّ

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

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

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صَرَّةٌ

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

A broader noun use related to intensity, distinct from the Quranic cry or assemblage interpretations.

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صَرَّةٌ

A contraction or stern, morose expression of the face.

Associated with dislike or hatred.

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صَرَّةٌ

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

A specialized traditional usage, also explained as a particular kind of عَطْفَة.

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صُرَّةٌ

A purse for money.

Distinct from صَرَّةٌ meaning a cry or assemblage.

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صَرَرٌ

An ear of corn in an early or undeveloped stage.

Descriptions include grain before the farina emerges and ears whose extremities have dried or toughened.

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صِرَارٌ

A cord, rag, or other device used to bind a she-camel's udder and prevent suckling.

The device is tied over the udder and teats, sometimes over a supporting piece; its plural is أَصِرَّةٌ.

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صِرَارٌ

An obstruction or obstacle placed in someone's way.

A figurative extension of the udder-binding device.

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صِرَارٌ

An elevated place over which water does not reach.

A topographical noun.

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صَرُورَةٌ

A person who has not performed the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Applied to men or women; related forms include صَرُور and صَرُورِيّ.

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صَرُورَةٌ

A person who has not married or has not had sexual intercourse with women.

Applied to a man, woman, or group; the feminine ending may intensify the epithet rather than mark feminine gender.

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صَرُورَةٌ

Abstinence from sexual intercourse or marriage, as interpreted in the expression لَا صَرُورَةَ فِي الإِسْلَامِ.

A reported interpretation of the legal and religious expression, alongside another interpretation referring to an unperformed pilgrimage or conduct in the sacred territory.

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صَرِيرَةٌ

Money tied up in a purse or bundle.

A nominal counterpart of the act of tying money.

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صَرَارِيٌّ

A sailor.

The form and its analysis are subject to lexicographical discussion, but the sailor meaning is directly attested.

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صِرَّى

A firm determination, resolution, or serious assertion rather than a jest.

Used especially in oath-like expressions such as هِيَ مِنِّي صِرَّى; variant forms are reported.

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صَرِّيٌّ

A dirham or dinar that rings when struck.

In some usage the word occurs chiefly in negative expressions and can mean money generally.

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الصَّرَّارُ

A cricket or other small flying creature that makes a creaking sound, especially at night.

The designation is linked to the insect's characteristic cry.

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صُرَّانٌ

A plant or growth found in hard ground, including certain trees of the عِلْكِ kind.

A botanical noun.

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صَرْصَرٌ

A subterranean insect that creaks during spring.

The term is also connected with other names for creaking insects.

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صَرْصَرٌ

A cock, named for its cry.

A zoological usage distinct from the insect sense.

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صَرْصَرَانِيٌّ

A camel intermediate between the Bactrian and Arabian types, or a camel of the فَوَالِج kind; also a certain smooth sea fish.

The camel and fish meanings are separate lexical applications of the same headword.

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صُرْصُورٌ

A large camel, especially a Bactrian camel or its offspring; in one report, an excellent stallion-camel.

A specialized camel noun with several closely related descriptions.

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صُرْصُورٌ

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

A separate nautical use of the headword.

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الصَّرَاصِرَةُ

The Nabataeans of Syria.

A collective ethnonym.

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صَارٌّ

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

A descriptive participial adjective for a facial expression.

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صَارٌّ

Trees that are tangled, luxuriant, and dense, with shaded lower parts.

A descriptive adjective for dense or interwoven vegetation.

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صَارَّةٌ

A want, need, requisite, or thing one seeks from another.

Used in expressions for a need to be supplied by a particular person.

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صَارَّةٌ

Thirst.

The plural and attribution of this sense are disputed in the lexicographical reports.

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صُوَيْرَّةٌ

Narrow in disposition, judgment, mind, or opinion.

A diminutive-derived adjective with a figurative restriction of outlook.

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أَصَرُّ

Hard or smooth, said of a stone or rock.

Used in the expressions حَجَرٌ أَصَرُّ and صَخْرَةٌ صَرَّاءُ.

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مَصَرَّتَا

The two sphincters that restrain urine and feces.

An anatomical dual expression.

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مُصِرَّةٌ

A she-camel that does not yield milk copiously.

A descriptive feminine noun for an animal with restricted milk production.

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مُصَرَّاةٌ

A female animal left unmilked for days so that milk collects in the udder.

Applied to a ewe or she-goat as well as to a she-camel; the lexical attribution is noted as possibly belonging under صرى.

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مَصْرُورٌ

Bound, especially as a captive.

A passive participial use from binding.

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مَصْرُورَةٌ

A she-camel whose udder has been bound with the صِرَار.

A passive participial description of the animal rather than the binding device itself.

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مَصْرُورٌ

Of a solid hoof, contracted or narrow.

The narrowing may be described as excessive or unseemly.

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مَصْرُورٌ

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

A figurative or punitive passive participial use.

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مَصَارّ

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

A plural-like anatomical noun.

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مُصْطَرَّةٌ

Of a woman, narrow in the flanks.

A specialized bodily description; it is not generalized to all uses of the root's contraction vocabulary.

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