حير

حَيْرَانُ حيران (T, S, A, K) and ↓ حَائِرٌ (T, A, K) and ↓ مُتَحَيِّرٌ (TA) A man in a state of confusion, or perplexity, and unable to see his right course: (K, * TA:) erring; having lost his way: (T, TA:) fem. [of the first] حَيْرَى (Lh, T) and حَيْرَاآءُ: (A, K:) and pl. [of the same] حَيَارَى (S, A, K) and حُيَارَى (K) and حَيْرَى, like the fem. sing. (Lh.) You say, لَا تَفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ أُمُّكَ حَيْرَى [ Do not thou that: may thy mother become in a state of confusion, &c.]: and لَا تَفْعَلُوا ذٰلِكَ أُمَّهَاتُكُمْ حَيْرَى [ Do not ye that: may your mothers become &c.]. (Lh.) And بَائِرٌ ↓ رَجُلٌ حَائِرٌ A man who does not apply himself rightly to an affair; (S, TA;) who knows not the right course to pursue in his affair; as also فِى أَمْرِهِ ↓ مُتَحَيِّرٌ. (TA. [See also the same phrase in art. حور.]) ― -b2- [رَوْضةٌ حَيْرَى is (tropical:) A meadow full of water. (TA.) ― -b3- [حَيْرَى is also applied as an epithet to the midday sun of summer: see a verse cited in the second paragraph of art. دوم.]