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صير

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

صِيرٌ ذ The ulterior or ultimate, latter or last, state, or condition; the end, conclusion, event, issue, or result; of a thing, an affair, or a case; (S, M, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ صَيْرٌ (O, K) and ↓ مَصِيرٌ (S, O, Msb, TA) and ↓ مَصِيرَةٌ (TA) and ↓ صَيُّورٌ, (S, M, K,) of the measure فَيْعُولٌ, (S,) and ↓ صَيُّورَةٌ. (K.) ― -b2- The verge, brink, or point, of an affair, or event. (M, K.) You say, أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ أَمْرِ كَذَا I am on the verge of such an affair, or event. (M.) And أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ حَاجَتِى I am at the point of [attaining] the object of my want. (M.) And أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ قَضَاآءِ حَاجَتِى I am at the point of accomplishing my want. (A.) And فُلَانٌ عَلَى صِيرِ أَمْرٍ Such a one is at the point of accomplishing an affair. (S.) -A2- A water at which people stay, or abide; (M, O, K;) as also ↓ صِيرَةٌ. (TA.) -A3- A crevice of a door. (S, M, A, Msb, K.) It is said in a trad., مَنْ نَظَرَ فِى صِيرِ بَابٍ فَفُقِئَتْ عَيْنُهُ فَهِىَ هَدَرٌ [ Whosoever looks into the crevice of a door and has his eye put out, it is a thing for which no mulct is to be exacted ]: (S, M:) A'Obeyd says that this is the only instance in which the word [in this sense] has been heard. (S.) -A4- [The condiment, made of small fish, called ] صِحْنَاة: (S, M, K:) or [ a condiment, or the like, ] resembling صحناة: (M, K:) or what is called in Pers. مَاهِى اآوَهْ [ jelly of salted fish ]; as also صِحْنَاةٌ: (Mgh voce صحناة:) and the small salted fish of which صحناة is made: (Kr, M, K:) or the young ones of fish: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: (Msb:) thought by IDrd to be Syriac; (TA;) by IAth, to be Pers., as also صحناة. (TA in art. صحن.) -A5- Also The أُسْفُفّ [properly bishop ] of the Jews. (O, K.) -A6- See also the next paragraph.

Derived headwords

صِيرٌ
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أَنَا عَلَى
صِيرٍ مِنْ أَمْرِ كَذَا
أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ حَاجَتِى
أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ قَضَاآءِ حَاجَتِى
فُلَانٌ عَلَى صِيرِ أَمْرٍ
مَنْ نَظَرَ فِى
صِيرِ بَابٍ فَفُقِئَتْ عَيْنُهُ فَهِىَ هَدَرٌ
مَاهِى اآوَهْ