easier, easiest, smaller, smallest

, aor. يَبْسِرُ, [respecting the form of which see the same verb in a different sense below,] inf. n. يَسْرٌ and يَسَرٌ [and مَيْسُورٌ (see يُسْرٌ below)], He was, or became, gentle, and tractable, submissive, manageable, or easy; (M, K;) said of a man, and of a horse: (M:) and يُسِرَ [app. signifies the same: and] is said of speech, and of a thing or an affair; signifying, [when relating to the former,] it was gentle, or [when relating to the latter,] easy; like سُعِدَ الرَّجُلُ [as syn. with سَعِدَ], and نُحِسَ [as syn. with نَحِسَ]. (Bd, xvii. 30.) See also تيسّر. ― -b2- يَسَرَتْ, said of a woman: see أَيْسَرَتْ -A2- يَسُرَ, aor. , It (a thing) was, or became, little in quantity: (A, Msb:) contemptible; paltry; of no weight or worth. (A.) -A3- يَسَرَنِى, aor. يَيْسِرُنِى, (AHn, M, K,) inf. n. يَسْرٌ, (AHn, M,) He (a man, AHn, M) came on, or from the direction of, my left hand. (AHn, M, K.) See also 3. -A4- يَسَرَ, [aor. يَيْسِرُ, inf. n. يَسْرٌ,] He divided anything into parts, or portions. (TA.) You say, يَسَرْتُ النَّاقَةَ I divided the flesh of the she-camel into parts or portions. (TA.) And يَسَرُوا الجَزُورَ They slaughtered the she-camel and divided its limbs, (S,) or portions, (TA,) among themselves; (S, TA;) as also, accord. to Aboo-'Omar ElJarmee, ↓ إِتَّسَرُوهَا, aor. يَتَّسِرُونَهَا, inf. n. إِتِّسَارٌ; and he adds that some people say, يَأْتَسِرُونَهَا, inf. n. ٱنْتِسَارٌ, with hemz; and هُمْ مُوأْتَسِرُونَ; like as they say in the case of إِتَّعَدَ. (S.) Soheym Ibn-Wetheel El-Yarboo'ee says, " أَقُولُ لَهُمْ بِالشِّعْبِ إِذْ يَيْسِرُونَنِى أَلَمْ تَيْيأَسُوا أَنِّى ٱبْنُ فَارِسِ زَهْدَمِ " [I say to them, in the ravine, when they divide me among themselves, deciding what shares they shall severally have in me, Know ye not that I am the son of the rider of Zahdam, and that ye may obtain a great ransom for me?] for capture had befallen him, and they played with [gaming-] arrows for him. (S, TA. [but in the latter, instead of تَيْيأَسُوا, we find تَعْلَمُوا, which signifies the same.]) You say also, ↓ إِتَّسَرُوا, aor. يَتَّسِرُونَ and يَأْتَسِرُونَ; (K;) and ↓ تَياَسَرُوا; (M, K;) They divided among themselves the slaughtered camel. (M, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] يَسَرَ, aor. يَيْسِرُ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) in the [second] ى is not suppressed as it is in يَعِدُ and its cöordinates [having و for the first radical], (S,) and يِيسَرُ, like يِيجَلُ, in the dial. of the Benoo-Asad, (TA,) inf. n. يَسْرٌ, (M, TA,) or مَيْسِرٌ, (A,) He played at the game called المَيْسِر; (M, Msb, K;) he played with gamingarrows. (S, A, Msb.)

, (inf. n. تَيْسِيرٌ, M, &c.) He (God, A, Msb) made it, or rendered it, easy; facilitated it. (M, A, Mgh, Msb, K.) You say, يُسِّرَتْ عَلَيْهَا الوِلَادَةُ The act of bringing forth was rendered easy to her. (A.) ― -b2- He made his circumstances ample; he made his condition, or his way or course [لِكَذَا to such a thing], easy, or smooth: (Sb, M:) he accommodated, adapted, or disposed, him, لِلْيُسْرَى [to easy things, or affairs, or circumstances; or to the easier, or easiest, way]: (S. A, [in the latter of which this is given as a proper, not tropical, signification:]) (tropical:) he prepared, or made ready, him or it, لِكَذَا for such a thing. (A [in which this signification is said to be tropical.]) تَيْسِيرٌ relates to both good and evil: (M, K:) as in the following instances in the Kur; [xcii. 7, 10;] فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْيُسْرَى, and لِلْعُسْرَى, (M,) [We will facilitate, or smooth, his way, or] We will accommodate him, or adapt him, or dispose him, [to a state of ease, and to a state of difficulty, or (as explained in the TA, art. عسر,) to punishment, and a difficult case:] (S, A:) or We will prepare him for paradise, and for hell: (Jel:) or We will prepare him to return to good, or righteous, conduct, [and to persevere in evil, or unrighteous, conduct; the former leading to ease, and the latter to difficulty:] (Fr, TA:) or We will prepare him for that habit of conduct which leads to ease, such as the entering paradise, and for that which leads to difficulty, such as the entering hell: from يسّر الفَرَسَ, meaning, he prepared the horse for riding, by saddling and bridling. (Bd.) It is said in a trad. وَقَدْ يُسِّرَ لَهُ طَهُورٌ (assumed tropical:) And water for ablution had been prepared and put for him. (TA.) ― -b3- يَسَّرَ الرَّجُلُ, (inf. n. تَيْسِيرٌ, K,) The man's camels, and his sheep or goats, brought forth with ease, (IAar, M, K), and none of them perished. (IAar, M.) ― -b4- يَسَّرَتِ الغَنَمُ The sheep, or goats, abounded in milk, (S, M, A, K,) and in like manner, الإِبِلُ the camels, (M,) and [so in the S, M, A, but in the K or] in offspring: (S, M, A, K:) and they brought forth: and they were ready to bring forth: and they abounded. (TA.) A poet (namely Aboo-Useydeh Ed-Debeeree, TA) says, " هُمَا سَيِّدَانَا يَزْعُمَانِ وإِنَّمَا يَسُودَانِنَا أَنْ يَسَّرَتْ غَنَمَا هُمَا " (S, M) They two are our two chiefs, as they assert; but they are only our chiefs inasmuch as their sheep, or goats, abound in milk and in offspring. (TA.) ― -b5- See also أَيْسَرَتْ.

, [inf. n. مُيَاسَرَةٌ] He was gentle towards him; acted gently towards him; treated him with gentleness; syn. لَايَنَهُ: (M, A, K:) he was easy, or facile, with him; syn. سَاهَلَهُ. (S, K.) Ex., cited by Th, from a poem: إِنْ يَاسَرْتَهُمْ يَسَرُوا If thou treat them with gentleness, they become gently. (M.) And يَاسَرَ الشَّرِيكَ He was easy, or facile, with the partner. (TA, from a trad.) -A2- ياسر, (inf. n. مُيَاسَرَةٌ, K,) He took the left-hand side or direction; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تياسر; (S, Msb, K;) which latter is the contr. of تيامن: (K:) or ↓ تَيَاسَرُوا they took the lefthand side or direction; contr. of تَيَامَنُوا. (A.) You say, يَاسِرْ بِأَصْحَابِكَ Take thou the left-hand side or direction with thy companions; (S, A;) as also تَيَاسَرْ; but some disapprove of this latter. (S.) And يَاسَرَ بِالقَوْمِ He took the left-hand side or direction with the people; as also ↓ يَسَرَ بِهِمْ aor. يَيْسِرُ; accord. to Sb. (M, TA.)

She (a woman, M) brought forth with ease; she had an easy birth; (M, A, K;) as also ↓ يسّرت, (M, IKtt,) which is in like manner said of a she-camel; (M;) or, as in the copies of the K, يَسَرَتْ, without teshdeed. (TA.) One says, in praying (M, A) for a pregnant woman, (A,) أَيْسَرَتْ وَأَذْكَرَتْ May she have an easy birth, (Lh, M, A,) and may she bring forth a male child. (Lh, M.) See the contr., أَعْسَرَتْ. -A2- ايسر, (S, M, &c.,) aor. يُوسِرُ, in which the [radical] ى is changed into و because it is quiescent and preceded by damm, (S,) inf. n. إِيسَارٌ (M, Mgh, K) and يُسْرٌ; (M, K;) accord. to Kr and Lh, but correctly the latter is a simple subst., (M,) He became possessed of competence, or sufficiency; or of richness, or wealth, or opulence; (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) and abundance. (Msb.) -A3- أَيْمَنْتُ إِبِلِى وَأَيْسَرْتُهَا I put my camels aside on the right hand and the left. (A.)

It (a thing, M, Msb) was, or became, facilitated, or easy; (M, A, Msb, K, TA;) contr. of difficult, hard, strait, or intricate; (TA;) as also ↓ استيسر. (M, A, Msb, K.) You say, أَخَذْنَا مَا تَيَسَّرَ, and ↓ مَا ٱسْتَيْسَرَ, We took what was easy [of obtainment, or of attainment]. (TA.) And it is said in a trad., respecting the eleemosinary tax called وَيَجْعَلُ معَهَا شَاتَيْنِ إِنِ, زَكَاة لَهُ أَوْ عِشَرِينَ دِرْهَمًا ↓ ٱسْتَيْسَرَتَا And he shall put with it, or them, two sheep, or goats, if they be easy to him [to give], or twenty dirhems. (TA.) And in the Kur, [ii. 192,] مِنَ الهَدْىِ ↓ فَمَا ٱسْتَيْسَرَ What is easy [to give], of camels and kine and sheep or goats: or, as some say, either a camel or a cow or a sheep or goat. (M, TA.) ― -b2- Also, تيسّر لَهُ, (S, TA,) and له ↓ استيسر, (S, K, TA,) (assumed tropical:) It (a thing, or an affair, K) was, or became, prepared, or made ready for him: (S, K, TA:) [and he prepared himself for it.] It is said in a trad., قَدْ تَيَسَّرَا لِلْقِتَالِ (assumed tropical:) They had both prepared themselves, or made themselves ready, for fight. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b3- تَيَسَّرَتِ البِلَادُ (tropical:) The countries became abundant in herbage, or in the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life. (TA, from a trad.)

[They were gentle, or acted gently, one towards another; they treated one another with gentleness: (see 3, of which it is the quasipass.)] they were easy, or facile, one with another; syn. تساهلوا; (K, * TA;) تَيَاسُرٌ is the contr. of تَعَاسُرٌ. (S, art. عسر.) It is said in a trad., تَيَاسَرُوا فِى الصَّدَاقِ Be ye easy, or facile, not exorbitant, one with another, with respect to dowry. (TA.) -A2- See also 3. -A3- And see 1, latter part.

see 1, in two places.

see 5, in five places.

(TA) and ↓ يَسَرٌ, (M, A, K, TA,) [each an inf. n. (see 1) used as an epithet,] and يَاسِرٌ, (K, TA,) Easy and gentle in tractableness, submissiveness, or manageableness; applied to a man and to a horse: (TA:) or [simply] easy; facile; (M, A, K;) as also ↓ يُسْرٌ (TA) and يَسِيرٌ, (Msb), this last being syn. with هَيِّنٌ, (S, K,) and signifying not difficult, غَيْرُ عَسِيرٍ, (A,) and ↓ مَيْسُورٌ [respecting which see also عُسْرٌ, pl. مَيَاسِيرُ]. (A.) Hence, ↓ يَسَرَاتٌ, pl. of يَسْرَةٌ and يَسَرَةٌ, applied to the legs of a beast, signifies Easy: (M:) or light, or active, legs of a beast: (S, TA:) or light, or active, and obedient, legs of a beast of carriage: (A:) or the legs of a she-camel: and you say also, إِنَّ قَوَايأِمَ هٰذَا الفَرَسِ يَسَرَاتٌ خِفَافٌ, meaning, verily the legs of this horse are obedient and light or active. (TA.) [Hence also,] وِلَادَةٌ يَسْرٌ [An easy birth, or bringing forth]. (A.) And وَلَدَتْ وَلَدَهَا يَسْرًا She brought forth her child easily: (M, K *:) said of a woman: (M:) or ↓ يَسَرًا. (CK.) And it is said in a trad., ↓ إِنَّ هٰذَا الدِّينَ يُسْرٌ Verily this religion is easy; liberal; one having little straitness. (TA.) You say also, ↓ خُذْ مَيْسُورَهُ وَدَعْ مَعْسُورَهُ [Take thou what is easy thereof, and leave thou what is difficult]. (A.) And ↓ مَيْسُورٌ is applied to a saying, or speech: (A:) so in the Kur. xvii. 30; meaning, gentle; (Bd, Jel;) easy: (Jel:) or ↓ قُوْلٌ مَيْسُورٌ means prayer for مَيْسُور, i. e., for يُسْر [q. v.]. (Bd.) ― -b2- فَتْلٌ يَسْرٌ [The twisting a rope or cord towards the left, by rolling it against the body from right to left; or] the twisting downwards, by extending the right hand towards the body [and so rolling the rope or cord downwards against the body or thigh, which is the usual way of twisting]; (S, A *, K;) contr. of شَزْرٌ. (M, A, TA) ― -b3- طَعْنٌ يَسْرٌ The thrusting, or piercing, [straight forward; or] opposite the face: (S, M, K:) opposed to شَزْرٌ, which is from one's right and one's left. (TA.) See an ex. voce شَزَرَهُ.

[Easiness; facility;] contr. of عُسْرٌ; (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ يُسُرٌ; (S, Msb, TA;) [and ↓ يُسْرَى; (see 3, where it is variously explained;)] and ↓ مَيْسُورٌ is the contr. of مَعْسُورٌ, [and therefore signifies as above; or easy; facile;] (S;) or this last signifies, (accord. to the lexicologists, M,) what is made easy; or facilitated; or (accord. to Sb, M, [but see مَعَقُولٌ,]) it is an inf. n. of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (M, K,) [used in the sense of يُسْرٌ as explained above,] of the same kind as [its contr.] مَعْسُورٌ; and Abu-l-Hasan says, that this is the truth; for it has no unaugmented verb, and inf. ns. of this measure are not of verbs which are in use, but only of imaginary unaugmented triliteral-radical verbs, as in the case of مَجْلُودٌ, which is [really] from تَجَلَّدَ. (M.) For examples of يُسْرٌ, see عُسْرٌ. ― -b2- Also, (accord. to the M; but in the K, or; and in both of these lexicons the signification here following is placed first;) and in like manner, ↓ يُسُرٌ, (K,) and ↓ يَسَارٌ, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ يَسَارَةٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ مَيْسَرَةٌ, and ↓ مَيْسُرَةٌ, (S, M, K,) of which last Sb says that it is like مَسْرُبَةٌ and مَشْرُبَةٌ in not being after the manner of the verb, [but after that of the simple substantive,] (M,) and ↓ مَيْسِرَةٌ, (K.) Easiness [of circumstances]; (M, K;) competence, or sufficiency; or richness, or wealth, or opulence; (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) abundance; (Msb;) [in these senses, also, contr. of عُسْرٌ;] and ↓ يُسْرَى signifies [the same; or] easy things or affairs or circumstances; contr. of عُسْرَى; as also ↓ مَيْسَرَةٌ. (TA, art. عسر.) You say also, ↓ أَنْظِرْنِى حَتَّى يَسَارِ [Grant thou me a delay until I shall be in a state of easiness of circumstances, &c.]; in which the last word is indecl., with kesr for its termination, because it is altered from the inf. n., which is المَيْسَرَةُ. (S.) In the Kur. [ii. 280,] some read, ↓ فَنَظِرَةٌ إِلَى مَيْسُرِهِ [Then let there be a postponement, or delay, until his being in a state of easiness of circumstances]: but Akh says, that this is not allowable; for there is no noun of the measure مَفْعُلٌ [of this kind]: as to مَكْرُمٌ and مَعُونٌ, [it is said that] they are pls. [virtually though not in the language of the grammarians] of مَكْرُمَةٌ and مَعُونَةٌ. (S.) [On this point, see مَأْلُكٌ, voce أَلُوكٌ.] -A2- See also يَسْرٌ, in two places. -A3- عُودُ يُسْرٍ: see عُودُ أُسْرٍ, in art. أسر.

: see يَسْرٌ. ― -b2- Made easy, or facilitated; i. q. مُيَسَّرٌ: (assumed tropical:) prepared: (K:) or [the game called] المَيْسِر prepared: or, as some say, (assumed tropical:) anything prepared. (M.) -A2- أَعْسَرُ يَسَرٌ A man who works, or does anything, with both his hands [alike]; ambidextrous; ambidexter: (S, M, Msb:) and ↓ أَعْسَرُ أَيْسَرُ occurs in a trad., accord. to one relation; but the former is the correct expression: (A'Obeyd:) and the fem. is عَسْرَآءُ يَسَرَةٌ: (M:) explained before, in art. عسر. (K.) -A3- See also يَاسِرٌ, in six places.

: see يُسْرٌ, in two places.