عجر

مِعْجَرٌ ذ (S, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K) and ↓ عِجَارٌ (S, Msb, TA, in the O [erroneously] written مِعْجَار,] A piece of cloth (Msb, K, TA) which is bound upon the head, (K, TA,) smaller than the رِدَاآء, (Msb, TA,) and large than the مِقْنَعَة, (TA,) worn by a woman: (Msb:) a thing which a woman binds upon her head: (S:) a piece of cloth, (Lth, Mgh, O, Msb, L,) like a fillet, (Mgh, Msb,) which a woman winds upon the round of her head, (Lth, Mgh, O, Msb, L,) after which she puts on, over it, her [ garment, or covering, called ] جِلْبَاب; (Lth, O, L:) [it is also said that] مِعْجَرٌ signifies a turban: or a turban [ wound ] upon the head without a turning [ of a portion thereof ] beneath the jaw: (Ham p. 709:) its pl. is مَعَاجِرُ: whence الاِعْتِجَارُ. (L, TA.) ― -b2- And مِعْجَرٌ signifies also A kind of garment, or cloth, of the fabric of El-Yemen, (Lth, K, TA,) used as the لِحَاف or مِلْحَفَة and the رِدَاآء: pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b3- And A thing woven of [ the fibres of the palm-tree called ] لِيف, like the جُوَالِق: (K:) pl. as above. (TA.)