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بعر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 بَعَرَ بعر , aor. بَعَرَ (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. بَعْرٌ (S, Msb,) said of an animal having the kind of foot called خُفّ, (Mgh, Msb, K,) [i. e.,] of a camel, and also of a sheep and goat, (S,) and of a cloven-hoofed animal (Mgh, Msb, K) of the wild kind of bull or cow, but not of the domestic kind, and of the gazelle-kind, beside the other two cloven-hoofed kinds mentioned before, and of the hare or rabbit, (TA,) He voided dung. (S, * Mgh, Msb, K.) ― -b2- بَعَرَهُ He threw at him a piece of بَعْر. (A.) ― -b3- بَعَرَتْ, said of a widow, She threw the piece of بَعْر; i. q. ↓ رَمَتْ بِالبَعْرَة; meaning she ended the number of days during which she had to wait after the death of her husband before she could marry again. (A.) [It seems to have been customary for the widow to collect a number of pieces of بَعْر, as many as the days she had to wait before she could marry again, and to throw away one each day: so that the saying means She threw the last piece of بعر.] -A2- بَعِرَ, aor. بَعَرَ , (K,) inf. n. بَعَرٌ, (TA,) He (a camel) became a بَعِير. (K.)

Derived headwords

بَعَرَverb
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