muʿattar

slovenly, foolish, tramp

مُعَتَّر

Word

Adjective

Root

ع ر ر

From the same root

All words from ع ر ر →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • عَرَّتِ الإِبِلُ Form I The camels were, or became, mangy, or scabby, or affected with the mange or scab
    , aor. (S, O, K) and , (K,) inf. n. عَرٌّ; (S;) The camels were, or became, mangy, or scabby, or affected with the mange or scab; (S, O, K; *) as also ↓ تَعَرْعَرَت; (O, K; *) and عُرَّت: (K: *) or this last verb signifies they (the camels) had purulent pustules, like the [cutaneous eruption called] قُوَبَآء [q. v.], coming forth dispersedly in their lips (S, O) and their legs, (S,) and discharging a fluid resembling yellow water; in consequence of which the healthy camels are cauterized, in order that the diseased may not communicate to them the malady: (S, O:) or the same verb signifies, (IKtt, K, * TA,) and so the first, and ↓ the second, (K, *) said of young, or unweaned, camels, they had purulent pustules in their necks: (IKtt, K, * TA:) and all the three verbs, said of camels, signify they had a disease which caused their fur to fall off, (K, TA,) so that the skin appeared and shone. (TA.) ― -b2- عَرَّ البَدَنَ, said of the mange, or scab, signifies اِعْتَرَضَهُ [app. meaning It attacked the body]. (B, TA.) -A2- عَرَّ, aor. , inf. n. عُرَّةٌ, said of a bird, It muted, or dunged. (S, O.) ― -b2- عَرَّ, (S, Mgh, TA,) aor. , (S, TA,) inf. n. عَرٌّ; (O;) and ↓ عرّر, inf. n. تَعْرِيرٌ; (S, O;) He manured land: he dunged it: (Mgh, TA:) he manured it with human ordure. (TA.) ― -b3- And [hence] عَرَّهُ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor. , (Msb,) He defiled, or besmeared, him, or it, (Mgh, Msb,) with عُرَّة, i. e. dung such as is called سِرْقِين, (Mgh,) or with a thing. (Msb.) ― -b4- And عَرَّهُ بِشَرٍّ (assumed tropical:) He sullied, or bespattered, him with evil, by charging him therewith; aspersed him; or charged, or upbraided, him with evil: (S, O, K, TA:) from عَرَّ signifying “ he dunged ” land; or, accord. to A'Obeyd, it may be from عَرٌّ signifying “ mange, ” or “ scab: ” and (assumed tropical:) he wronged him, or treated him unjustly or injuriously; and reviled him; and took his property. (TA.) ― -b5- And [in like manner] هُوَ يَعُرُّ قَوْمَهُ (assumed tropical:) He brings against his people, or party, an abominable, or evil, charge, (يُدْخِلُ عَلَيْهِمْ مَكْرُوهًا,) aspersing them with it. (S, O.) (assumed tropical:) He disgraces, or dishonours, his people, or party. (TA.) ― -b6- And عَرَّهُ, aor. , (assumed tropical:) He applied to him a surname, or nickname, that disgraced him, or dishonoured him: and عُرَّ (assumed tropical:) He received, or became called by, such a surname or nickname. (TA.) ― -b7- And عَرَّهُ, (S, O, K,) aor. , (TA,) inf. n. عَرٌّ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) He did to him an abominable, or evil, thing: (K:) he displeased him; grieved, or vexed, him; did to him what he disliked, or hated; did evil to him. (S, O, K.) ― -b8- And عَرَّهُ also signifies It (a thing that he disliked, or hated, and that distressed him,) befell him; syn. عَرَاهُ, meaning دَهَاهُ. (Ksh in xlviii. 25. [In Bd, اغراه; app. a mistranscription for عَرَاهُ.]) ― -b9- Also, (O, Msb, K,) aor. , (O, TA,) inf. n. عَرٌّ; (O, K;) and ↓ اعترّهُ, (Msb, K,) and اعترّ بِهِ; (K;) and عَرَاهُ and اعتراهُ likewise; (Msb, TA; [see art. عرو;]) He addressed, or applied, himself to obtain favour, or bounty, of him, without asking; (Msb, K;) he came to him, and sought his favour, or bounty; or seeking his favour, or bounty: (O, TA:) or he went round about him, seeking to obtain what he had, whether asking him or not asking him. (TA, as implied in an explanation of مُعْتَرٌّ.) ― -b10- And عَرَّهُ He alighted at his abode as a visiter and guest. (IKtt, TA.) -A3- See also 3.
  • عَرَّ3َ Form II Open entry
    see the preceding paragraph, former half.
  • عارّ Form III cried; uttered a cry or cries
    , (S, O, K,) aor. يُعَارُّ, (S,) inf. n. عِرَارٌ (S, O, K) and مُعَارَّةٌ; (K;) and, (S, O, K,) as some say, (S, O,) ↓ عَرَّ, aor. , (S, O, K,) or , (thus in the L,) inf. n. عِرَارٌ, (S, O, K,) with kesr; (K; [in one of my copies of the S عَرَارٌ; but عُرَارق, which would be agreeable with analogy, I do not find;]) He (an ostrich [said of the male only]) cried; uttered a cry or cries: (S, O, K:) like as they say of a female ostrich زَمَرَتْ: (S, O: *) IKtt cites an assertion that it is عَارَ, aor. يَعُورُ. (TA.)
  • اعرّت الدَّارُ Form IV The house had in it
    The house had in it عُرَّة [i. e. dung, or human ordure], (S, * O, K, *) or much thereof; like أَعْذَرَت. (TA.)
  • تعارّ Form VI He awoke from his sleep
    He awoke from his sleep, (S, A, O,) in the night, with a sound, or cry, (S, O,) or speaking, or talking: (A:) he was sleepless, and turned over upon the bed, by night, speaking, or talking, (A, K,) and with a sound, or cry, and, as some say, stretching. (TA.) A'Obeyd says that some derive it [as Z does] from عِرَارٌ, signifying the “ crying ” of a male ostrich; but that he knows not whether it be so or not. (TA.)
  • إِعْتَرَ3َ Form VIII Open entry
    see 1, near the end of the paragraph.
  • اِسْتَعَرَّهُمُ الجَرَبُ Form X The mange, or scab, appeared and spread among them
    The mange, or scab, appeared and spread among them. (S, O, * K.) [See also 8 in art. سعر.]
  • تَعَرْعَرَت Open entry
    : see 1, first quarter, in two places.
  • عَرٌّ mange, or scab
    The mange, or scab; (S, A, Mgh, O, K;) as also ↓ عُرٌّ (K) and ↓ عُرَّةٌ (IF, Msb, K) and ↓ عَرَّةٌ: (IF, Msb, and so in a copy of the A:) see also عَرَرٌ: or عَرٌّ has this signification; but ↓ عُرٌّ, with damm, signifies purulent pustules in the necks of young, or unweaned, camels: and a certain disease, in consequence of which the fur of the camel falls off, (K, TA,) so that the skin appears and shines; as some say: (TA:) or purulent pustules, like the [cutaneous eruption called] قُوَبَآء [q. v.], which comes forth in camels, dispersedly, in their lips (S, O) and their legs, (S,) discharging a fluid which resembles yellow water; in consequence of which the healthy camels are cauterized, in order that the diseased may not communicate to them the malady. (S, O.) En-Nábighah says, (addressing En-Noamán Ibn-El-Mundhir, O,) " فَحَمَّلْتَنِى ذَنْبَ ٱمْرِيأٍ وَتَرَكْتَهُ يُكْوَى غَيْرُهُ وَهْوَ رَاتِعُ ↓ كَذِى العُرِّ " [And thou hast charged me with the crime, or offence, of a man other than myself, and left him like that which has the disease called عُرّ, another than which is cauterized while he is pasturing at pleasure]: he who says العَرّ, in relating this verse, errs; for cauterization is not practised as a preservative from the mange, or scab. (IDrd, S, O.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] (assumed tropical:) A vice, or fault, or the like. (Har p. 366.) [See also عُرَّة.] ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) Evil, or mischief. (Har ibid.) One says, لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ شَرًّا وَعَرًّا (assumed tropical:) [I experienced from him, or it, evil and mischief: the two nouns being synonymous: and the latter of them also an inf. n. of عَرَّهُ, q. v.]. (TA: but written without any syll. signs.) [See also an instance of the use of the phrase شَرٌّ وَعَرٌّ voce دَفِينٌ.] ― -b4- See also عَارٌّ.
  • عُرٌّ Open entry
    : see عَرٌّ, in three places: ― -b2- and see عُرَّةٌ.
  • عَرَّةٌ Open entry
    : see عَرٌّ.
  • عُرَّةٌ Madness, or such as is caused by diabolical possession, affecting a man
    : see عَرٌّ. ― -b2- Also Madness, or such as is caused by diabolical possession, affecting a man: You say, بِهِ عُرَّةٌ In him is madness, &c. (S, O.) ― -b3- Dung, such as is called بَعَر, and سِرْجِين, (S, O,) or سِرْقِين, (Mgh,) [i. e. dung of horses or other solid-hoofed animals, and of camels, sheep and goats, wild oxen, and the like,] and that of birds; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ عُرٌّ: (O, K:) and human ordure. (O, K.) It is said in a trad., لَعَنَ ٱللّٰهُ بَايأِعَ العُرَّةِ وَمُشْتَرِيَهَا i. e. [God has cursed, or may God curse, the seller of] سرقين [or perhaps the meaning may be human ordure, and the buyer thereof], (Mgh.) ― -b4- Dirt, or filth. (Msb.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Filthiness in the natural dispositions. (O.) ― -b6- (tropical:) A thing that exposes its author to disgrace; a vice, or fault, or the like. (O, Msb, TA.) See also مَعَرَّةٌ. [And see عُرٌّ, voce عَرٌّ. Hence,] عُرَّةُ النِّسَآءِ (tropical:) That which disgraces women; their evil conversation or behaviour, with others. (TA.) ― -b7- As an epithet applied to a man, (S, O, Msb,) (assumed tropical:) Dirty, or filthy; as also ↓ عَارُورٌ and ↓ عَارُورَةٌ: (S, O:) [or] having an intensive signification [as though meaning “ dirt, ” or “ filth, ” itself]: (Msb:) (assumed tropical:) a man who is the disgrace of the people [to whom he belongs]: (K:) a man sullied, or bespattered, with evil. (IDrd, O.) And one says, فُلَانٌ عُرَّةُ أَهْلِهِ meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is the worst of his family. (TA.) ― -b8- Also (assumed tropical:) The act of doing an abominable, or evil, thing, to another. (K.)

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