ظر

ظُرَرٌ ذ A sharp-edged hard stone: (As, T, Mgh, TA:) a stone having an edge like that of the knife: (S:) or a [ kind of ] smooth and broad stone which a man breaks and with which he slaughters a camel; (ISh, T, Mgh, * TA;) and it is of any colour; and is also thus called before it is broken: (ISh, T, TA:) and the n. un. is ↓ ظُرَرَةٌ: (T:) or, as also ↓ ظُرَرَةٌ and ↓ ظِرٌّ, a stone, (M, K,) in a general sense: (M:) or a round stone: (TA:) or a round sharp-edged stone: (M, K:) or a piece of stone having a sharp edge: (M:) the pl. is ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّانٌ; (As, T, S, Mgh;) or the pl. is ظِرَّانٌ and ظُرَّانٌ; (Th, M, and so in the K accord. to the TA; [in the CK ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّارٌ;]) and Th says that the former of these is pl. of ظُرَرٌ, or both may be pls. of ظِرٌّ; (M;) and another pl. is أَظِرَّةٌ, (T, TA,) [a pl. of pauc.,] occurring in a trad.; (TA;) or, accord. to ISh, ↓ ظِرَارٌ [mentioned above as a pl.] is a sing., and أَظِرَّةٌ is its pl.: (Mgh:) and ↓ أُظْرُورٌ and ↓ ظُرْظُورٌ and ↓ مُظْرُورٌ, of which last the pl. is مَظَارِيرُ, (Sgh, K, TA,) and all of which are with damm, thus in the handwriting of Sgh, (TA,) signify the same [as ظُرَرٌ &c.]. (Sgh, K, TA.)