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عجر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَعْجَرُ ذ , applied to a man, (S, O,) Thick and fat: (K:) big-bellied: (S, O, K:) a stallion big, or bulky: (S, O:) and a belly, (TA,) and a purse, (S, O,) full: (S, O, TA:) pl. عُجْرٌ. (TA.) See also عَجِرٌ. ― -b2- Anything having knots: (TA:) and so ↓ عَجِرٌ applied to a string, or thread: (Ham p. 815:) and the former, knotty, or having many knots. (TA.) [Hence,] عَجْرَاآءُ [for عَصًا عَجْرَاآءُ] A staff, or stick, knotted, or having knots. (A, O, K.) One says, ضَرَبَهُ بِعَجْرَاآءَ مِنْ سَلَمٍ [ He beat him, or struck him, with a knotted staff, or stick, of wood of the سَلَم]. (TA.) ― -b3- It is also applied to a sword [as meaning Having, in its diversified wavy marks, what resemble knots: see عُجْرَةٌ, and see also the paragraph next following this]. (TA.) ― -b4- Also Hump-backed. (Fr, O, TA.)

Derived headwords

أَعْجَرُ
  1. 1.
عَصًا عَجْرَاآءُ
بِعَجْرَاآءَ مِنْ سَلَمٍ