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عرى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

12 اعرورى الفَرَسَ ذ , (S, K,) or الدَّابَّةَ, (Mgh, Msb,) He rode the horse, or the beast, without a saddle, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, * and Ham p. 42,) and having nothing beneath him; (Ham:) the verb being of the measure اِفْعَوْعَلَ, (S, TA,) a measure of which there is no other trans. v. except اِحْلَوْلَى. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence the usage of the verb in the saying of Taäbbata-Sharrà يَظَلُّ بِمَوْمَاةٍ وَيُمْسِى بِغَيْرِهَا جَحِيشًا وَيَعْرَوْرِى ظُهُورَ المَهَالِكِ (assumed tropical:) He passes the day in a waterless desert, and enters upon the evening in another than it, alone, and he ventures upon [ the surfaces of ] the places of perdition without anything to protect him from them. (Ham ubi suprà.) [See also an ex. of the act. part. n. in a verse cited in the second paragraph of art. دوم.] ― -b3- And اعرورى السَّرَابُ الاآكَامَ means رَكِبَهَا [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The mirage surmounted the hills, or mounds ]. (TA.) ― -b4- And اعرورى أَمْرًا قَبِيحًا (assumed tropical:) He ventured upon, or did, an evil, or a foul, thing; (S, K; *) syn. رَكِبَهُ, (S,) or أَتَاهُ, (K,) or both. (TA.) ― -b5- اعرورى signifies also (assumed tropical:) He journeyed by himself, alone, in the earth, or land. (K.)

Derived headwords

اعرورى الفَرَسَverb
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يَظَلُّ بِمَوْمَاةٍ وَيُمْسِى بِغَيْرِهَا
جَحِيشًا وَيَعْرَوْرِى ظُهُورَ المَهَالِكِ
اعرورى السَّرَابُ الاآكَامَ
اعرورى أَمْرًا