عكر

عِكْرٌ ذ i. q. أَصْلٌ [ Origin; and original state or condition, and natural disposition ]; (S, O, K;) as also عِتْرٌ. (S, O.) You say هُوَ كَرِيمُ العِكْرِ He is of generous origin. (TK.) And بَاعَ فُلَانٌ عِكْرَهُ, (S, O, TA,) or أَرْضِهِ ↓ عِكْرَةَ, (TA,) Such a one sold the أَصْل [meaning the fundamental property, i. e. the property itself, ] of his land. (S, O, TA.) And رَجَعَ فُلَانٌ اـِلَى عِكْرِهِ [ Such a one returned to his original state or condition, or natural disposition: see عِتْرٌ]. (S, O.) ― -b2- Also Custom; habit: so in the prov., عَادَتْ لِعِكْرِهَا لَمِيسُ Lemees [a proper name of a woman] returned to her custom, or habit. (O, L.) [See also عِتْرٌ.] And it is said in a trad., that when the words اِقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ [in the Kur xxi. 1] were revealed, those who were in error refrained a little from what was forbidden, and then عَادُوا اـِلَى عِكْرِهِمْ, i. e., they returned to their original bad way of acting or of opinion, and to their evil deeds: (S, O, TA:) or, accord. to one relation of the trad., ↓ الى عَكَرِهِمْ, to their filthiness, from عَكَرٌ relating to oil: (O, TA:) but the former is the more proper. (TA.)