shaqar

blond, fair-skinned

شَقَر

Word

Noun · pattern فَعَل

Root

ش ق ر

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وبينهما وبين السرا حضرة السلطان مسيرة عشر؛ وعلى مسيرة يوم من هذه المدينة جبال الروس، وهم نصارى شقر الشعور زرق العيون قباح الصور أهل غدر، وعندهم معادن الفضة.

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • شَقِرَ Form I He was, or became, of the colour termed شُقْرَةٌ
    , aor. , inf. n. شَقَرٌ (M, L, Msb, K [in the CK and TA شَقْرٌ, which is evidently wrong,]) and شُقْرَةٌ, (Lth, K,) or the latter is a simple subst.; (M;) and شَقُرَ; and ↓ اِشْقَرَّ; (M, K;) He was, or became, of the colour termed شُقْرَةٌ. (M, L, Msb, K.)
  • إِشْقَرَّ Form IX Open entry
    see 1.
  • شَقْرٌ Open entry
    : see شُقُورٌ.
  • شَقِرٌ red, or blood-coloured, anemone
    [The red, or blood-coloured, anemone;] i. q. شَقَايأِقُ النُّعْمَانِ: (S, M, A, Msb, K:) it is not a sweet-scented flower: (Msb:) n. un. with ة; (S, M, Msb, K;) pl. [of the n. un.] شَقِرَاتٌ: (K:) as also ↓ شُقَّارٌ and ↓ شَقِرَانٌ, (so in some copies of the K,) the latter so written by IDrd and Sgh, and thought by IDrd to be a place or a plant, (TA,) or ↓ شُقْرَانٌ, (so in some copies of the K and in the TA,) and ↓ شُقَّارَى and ↓ شُقَارَى: (K:) or شَقِرٌ is the name of a certain other plant, not the شقايأق, but red like it: (M, * K, * TA:) or it signifies cinnabar: (A:) or شَقِرَةٌ has this signification, (T, K,) as well as that first assigned to it above: (K:) and accord. to AHn, (M, TA,) ↓ شُقَّارَى is the name of a certain plant (S, M, TA) that grows is sands, having a pungent odour, which is tasted in the flavour of milk: and he adds that, accord. to some, it is the same as the شَقِر; but that this opinion is not well founded: (M, TA:) it is also said that it is a certain plant having a flower of a dingy red colour, the seed, or grain, of which is called خِمْخِمٌ: (TA:) and that ↓ شُقَّارَى (M, TA) and ↓ شُقَارَى, (M,) or ↓ شُقَّارٌ, (TA,) are names of a certain plant, having a flower of a colour somewhat of that termed شُكْلَةٌ, with slender, or delicate, dust-coloured leaves, which grows in the manner of قَضْب [a kind of trefoil], is approved in pasturage, and grows only in fruitful years. (M, TA.)
  • جَآءَ بِالشُّقَرِ وَالبُقَرِ Open entry
    : see جآء بِالصُّقَرِ وَالبُقَرِ, in art. صقر.
  • شُقْرَةٌ colours described in the explanations of the epithet
    The colours described in the explanations of the epithet أَشْقَرُ, below. (S, M, Msb, &c.)
  • شَقِرَانٌ Open entry
    , or شُقْرَانٌ: see شَقِرٌ.
  • شَقِرَّاقٌ Open entry
    and its vars.: see in art. شقرق.
  • شَقُورٌ Open entry
    : see the next paragraph, in four places.
  • شُقُورٌ A want; or a needful, or requisite, thing, affair, or business
    (AHeyth, Fr, A'Obeyd, S, K) and ↓ شَقُورٌ (AHeyth, As, Abu-l-Jarráh, S, K) A want; or a needful, or requisite, thing, affair, or business: (S, K:) or the former signifies wants: (Ham p. 716:) A'Obeyd says that the former word is the more correct, because شُقُورٌ signifies things, or affairs, that cleave to the heart, disquieting it; and is pl. of ↓ شَقْرٌ; and that ↓ شَقُورٌ, with fet-h, has the signification of an epithet [meaning cleaving to the heart and disquieting it]: (S:) or, accord. to some, this latter signifies grief, mourning, sorrow, or sadness; disquietude of mind: or disquietude of mind that causes one to be sleepless: the former is also expl. as signifying a man's case, and his secret: and ↓ both are also said to signify tidings: and a man's state, or condition. (TA.) One says, أَخْبَرْتُهُ بِشُقُورِى I acquainted him with my want; like as one says أَفْضَيْتُ إِلَيْهِ بِعُجَرِى وَبُجَرِى: (S:) or I acquainted him with my tidings. (TA.) And أَفْضَيْتُ إِلَيْهِ بِشُقُورِى I acquainted him with my case, and with what I kept secret from others; (TA;) and so نَفَضْتُ لَهُ شُقُورِى: (Ham p. 716:) or I revealed to him my secret, and acquainted him with all my affairs. (Mgh.) And ↓ بَثَّهُ شَقُورَهُ, and شُقُورَهُ, He complained to him of his state, or condition. (M, TA.)
  • شُقَارَى Open entry
    : see شَقِرٌ, in two places: -A2- and see also جَآءَ بِالصُّقَرِ وَالبُقَرِ, in art. صقر.
  • شُقَّارٌ Open entry
    : see شَقِرٌ, in two places.

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