jiʿrān

dung

جِعْران

Word

Noun · pattern فِعْلان

Root

ج ع ر

In the library

دويبة معروفة تسمى أبا جعران والزعقوق يعض البهائم في وجهها فتهرب منه وهو أكبر من الخنفساء

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • جَعَرَ Form I He voided his dung
    , aor. , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. جَعْرٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ انجعر; (K;) said of a beast or bird of prey (S, Msb, K *) having claws, or talons, (S, K, *) or a hyena, and a dog, and a cat, (TA,) and metaphorically of a rat or mouse, (Msb,) He voided his dung. (S, Msb, K.)
  • تجعّر Form V He bound upon his (i. e. his own) waist a rope of the kind called جِعَار
    , (S, K,) or تجعّر بِجِعَارٍ, (TA,) He bound upon his (i. e. his own) waist a rope of the kind called جِعَار. (S, K, TA.)
  • إِنْجَعَرَ Form VII Open entry
    see 1.
  • جَعْرٌ dung of a beast or bird of prey
    , originally an inf. n., (Msb,) The dung of a beast or bird of prey (S, Msb, K) having claws, or talons; (S, K;) as also ↓ جَاعِرَةٌ; (K;) which is like رَوْثٌ in relation to a horse: (TA:) or the dung of the hyena: (A:) [and of the dog, and cat: see 1:] or dry dung upon the مَجْعَر, q. v.: (K:) or dung that comes forth dry: (IAth, TA:) and (tropical:) that of the rat or mouse: (Msb:) pl. جُعُورٌ. (K.) ― -b2- See also جُعْرُورٌ. -A2- Also Costiveness. (TA.)
  • جُعْرَةٌ A mark left by the rope called جِعَار
    A mark left by the rope called جِعَار (Th, K) upon the waist of a man. (Th, TA.)
  • جَعْرَآءُ Open entry
    : see مَجْعَرٌ.
  • أَبُو جِعْرَانَ black beetle called
    [in which the latter word is imperfectly decl. because it is a proper name ending with the augment ان] The [black beetle called] جُعَل, (Kr, K, TA,) in a general sense: or, as some say, a certain species thereof. (TA.) ― -b2- And أُمُّ جِعْرَانَ, (K, TA,) or أُمُّ جِعْرَانَةَ, (so in a copy of the K,) The رَخَمَة [or female of the vultur percnopterus]. (Kr, K.)
  • جُعْرُورٌ A bad kind of dates
    A bad kind of dates; (Msb, K;) also metaphorically called الفَأْرَةِ ↓ جَعْرُ [the rat's, or mouse's, dung], because of the bad smell, and the diminutiveness, thereof: (Msb:) and you also say جُعْرُورٌ: (TA:) or a species of the دَقَل, which is the worst kind of dates: (S:) or a species of the [kind of palm-tree called] دَقَل that bears small things [or dates] in which is no good. (As, TA.) [See عَذْقُ الجُبَيْقِ, in art. حبق.]
  • جِعِرَّى Open entry
    : see مَجْعَرٌ.
  • جَعارِ The she-hyena
    , (S, A, K,) like قَطَامِ, (K,) indecl., with kesr for its termination, because it deviates from its original form, which is جَاعِرَةٌ, and is of the fem. gender, and has the quality of an epithet in which that of a subst. is predominant, so that the thing to which it applies is known by it like as it is known by its proper name; and as it is prevented from being perfectly decl. by two causes, it must be indecl. by reason of three; as we also say with respect to حَلَاقِ, a proper name of death; (S;) The she-hyena; (S, A, K;) a name of that animal (S) because of the abundance of its dung; (S, A;) as also أُمُّ جَعَارِ, and ↓ جَيْعَرٌ, and ↓ أُمُّ جَعْوَرٍ. (K.) Hence, أَعْيَثُ مِنْ جَعَارِ [More mischievous than the she-hyena]: a prov. (A, TA.) And تِيسِى جَعَارِ (K) Be thou like the he-goat in stupidity, O she-hyena; a prov. applied to a stupid man: (A and TA in art. تيس, q. v.:) or عِيثِى جَعَارِ [Do mischief, O she-hyena]; a prov. used in declaring a thing to be vain, or false. (K.) And " رُوعِى جَعَارِ وَٱنْظُرِى أَيْنَ المَفْرِ " [for المَفِرُّ, Be afraid, O she-hyena, and look where is a place to which to flee]: (K, * TA:) or رُوغِى [i. e. turn aside, this way and that]: (S and TA in art. روغ:) a prov. applied to him who seeks to escape, and cannot: (TA:) or with reference to a coward, and his submissiveness. (K.) And قُومِى جَعَارِ [Rise, O she-hyena]: said to a woman, in reviling her; likening her to a she-hyena. (ISk, TA.)
  • جِعَارٌ A certain mark made with a hot iron upon
    A certain mark made with a hot iron upon [the part called] the جَاعَرَتَانِ: (K:) accord. to the Tedhkireh of Aboo-'Alee, one of the marks, so made, of camels. (Ibn-Habeeb, TA.) -A2- A rope which a man who waters ties to a stake, and then binds upon his waist, when he descends into a well, lest he should fall into it: (S:) or a rope which a drawer of water binds upon his waist, (K, TA,) when he descends into a well, (TA,) lest he should fall into the well; (K, TA;) the end being in the hand of another man, who, if he falls, pulls him up with it. (TA.)
  • أُمُّ جَعْوَرٌ Open entry
    : see جَعَارِ.

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