عصر

عَصَرٌ ذ : see عَصْرٌ, in three places. -A2- Also A place to which one has recourse for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging; a place of refuge; an asylum; a refuge: (S, O, K:) and a cause, or means, of safety; syn. مَنْجَاةٌ: (S, K:) as also ↓ عُصْرٌ (K) and ↓ عُصْرَةٌ (S, O, TA) and ↓ مُعَصَّرٌ (O, K) and ↓ مُعْتَصَرٌ (TA) and ↓ عُصُرٌ, from which عُصْرٌ is said to be contracted, (TA,) [and ↓ عَصِيرَةٌ.] You say, ↓ زَيْدٌ عُصْرَتِى and ↓ عَصِيرَتِى and ↓ مَعْتَصَرِى (tropical:) [ Zeyd is my refuge ]. (A.) -A3- Also Dust; or dust raised and spreading; syn. غُبَارٌ: (S, O, K:) or vehement dust; (TA;) which latter is also the signification of ↓ عِصَارٌ and ↓ عَصَرَةٌ: (O, K, TA:) or this last, or, accord. to some, ↓ عُصْرَةٌ, has the former signification. (L.) It is said in a trad., مَرَّتِ ا@مْرَأَةٌ مُتَطَيِّبَةٌ لِذَيْلِهَا عَصَرٌ, (S, O,) or ↓ عُصْرَةٌ. or, as some relate it, ↓ عَصَرَةٌ, (l.,) A perfumed woman passed by, her skirt having a dust proceeding from it, (S, A, L,) occasioned by her dragging it along [upon the ground], (l.,) or occasioned by the abundance of the perfume: (A:) or ↓ عَصَرَةٌ may mean (tropical:) an exhalation of perfume: (L, TA: *) [for] it has this meaning also: (IDrd, O:) but accord. to one relation, it is اـِعْصَارٌ, (L,) which also signifies dust raised by wind. (TA.)