عر

عَرَارٌ ذ A certain plant, of sweet odour, (S, O,) intensely yellow and wide in the blossom; (O;) i. q. بَهَارُ البَرِّ [q. v., i. e. buphthalmum, or ox-eye; which is called by both of these names in the present day]: (S, O, K:) accord. to IB, the wild narcissus (النَّرْجِسُ البَرِّىُّ): (TA:) and said by some to be a sort of tree [or plant ] to which the complexion of a woman is likened: (Ham p. 548:) n. un. with ة: (S, O, K:) IAar says that the عَرَارَة is like the بَهَار; having wood, [or arborescent, app. meaning that it is the buphthalmum arborescens, the flower of which is intensely yellow, agreeably with what is said of it in the O,] having a sweet odour, and growing only in plain land. (O.) -A2- Also, i. e. like سَحَابٌ [in measure], Retaliation of slaughter or of wounding or of mutilation; syn. قَوَدٌ: and anything that is slain in retaliation for another (كُلُّ شَىْءٍ بَاآءَ بِشَىْءٍ): (K, TA:) of any such thing one says, هُوَ لَهُ عَرَارٌ [ It is one slain in retaliation for it ]. (TA.) [This latter meaning is app. taken from the prov. بَاآءَتْ عَرَارِ بِكَحْلٍ, relating to two cows; mentioned in art. بوأ.]