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عجر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

عُجْرَةٌ ذ A place of projection, protrusion, prominence, or protuberance, and elevation. (A, * K * TA.) ― -b2- [ A protuberance; a knob; a lump. ] ― -b3- A knot in wood, (S, Mgh, O, K,) and the like, (K,) or in other things: (Mgh:) or in the veins of the body: (S:) or a knotted vein in the body; and بُجْرَةٌ, with which it is coupled, “ a knotted vein in the belly, ” particularly: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) or the former, a thing that collects in the body, like a ganglion (سِلْعَة); (As, O, TA;) and the latter signifies the like: (As, TA:) or, as some say, عُجَرٌ, which is the pl., signifies the vertebræ of the back: (IAth, TA:) or عُجْرَةٌ signifies a tumour, or swelling, or an inflation, in the back; and بُجْرَةٌ, the like in the navel. (TA.) [See also بُجْرَةٌ.] ― -b4- Hence, one says, ذَكَرَ عُجَرَهُ وَبُجَرَهُ (tropical:) He mentioned his vices, or faults, which no one knew save he who tried him, or tested him: (TA:) or his external and internal conditions; what he showed and what he concealed. (IAth, TA.) And أَفَضَيْتُ اـِلَيْهِ بِعُجَرِى وَبُجَرِى (tropical:) I revealed to him my vices, or faults, by reason of my confidence in him: (A 'Obeyd, O, TA:) or I acquainted him with my whole state, or case; not concealing from him anything thereof. (As, TA.) And أُحَدِّثُهُ بِعُجَرِى وَبُجَرِى (tropical:) I relate to him my vices, or faults. (TA.) And يَشْكُو عُجَرَهُ وَبُجَرَهُ (tropical:) He complains of his vices, or faults, or the like: and of his sorrows: and of what is apparent and what is concealed. (K, * TA. [In the CK, اُبْدِرَ is put by mistake for أُبْدِىَ.]) One says also, جَاآءَ فُلَانٌ بِالعُجَرِ وَالبُجَرِ (assumed tropical:) i. e. [ Such a one uttered ] falsehood: or a great, or terrible, thing. (Fr, TA.) [See, again, بُجْرَةٌ.] ― -b5- عُجْرَةٌ also signifies The mark made upon the waist by the running string of the drawers. (A, TA.) To this a poet likens the mark made by a blunt sword. (Aboo-Sa'eed, TA.) ― -b6- And one says, السَّيْفٌ فِى فِرِنْدِهِ عُجَرٌ [ The sword has, in its diversified wavy marks, what resemble knots ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

عُجْرَةٌ
  1. 1.
ذَكَرَ عُجَرَهُ
أَفَضَيْتُ اـِلَيْهِ بِعُجَرِى وَبُجَرِى
أُحَدِّثُهُ بِعُجَرِى وَبُجَرِى
يَشْكُو عُجَرَهُ
جَاآءَ فُلَانٌ بِالعُجَرِ وَالبُجَرِ
السَّيْفٌ فِى فِرِنْدِهِ عُجَرٌ