سكر

2 سكّرهُ ذ : see 4. ― -b2- And see also 1, last two explanations. ― -b3- سُكِرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا, in the Kur [xv. 15], means (tropical:) Our eyes have been prevented from seeing, and dazzled: (S, K:) or have been covered over: (Aboo-' Amr Ibn-El-' Alà, S, K:) and ↓ سُكِرَتْ, without teshdeed, have been prevented from seeing: (Fr, K: *) or this latter, which is the reading of El-Hasan, means, accord. to him, have been enchanted: (S:) or both mean, have been covered and closed by enchantment, so that we imagined ourselves to behold things which we did not really see: (T, TA:) Mujáhid explains the latter reading as meaning, have been stopped up; i. e., have been covered by that which prevented their seeing, like as water is prevented from flowing by a سِكْر [or dam ]: (A 'Obeyd:) and another reading is ↓ سَكِرَتْ, meaning, have become dazzled, like those of the intoxicated: (Ksh, Bd: *) AO says that أَبْصَارُ القَوْمِ ↓ سَكِرَتْ means (tropical:) The people became affected by a giddiness; and an affection like cloudiness of the eye, or weakness of the sight, came over them, so that they did not see; and Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà says that this signification is derived from سُكْرٌ; as though their eyes were intoxicated: Zj says that عَيْنُهُ ↓ سَكِرَتْ means (assumed tropical:) his eye became dazzled, and ceased to see. (TA.) ― -b4- سُكِّرَ لِلْحَاجَةِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) His judgment, or opinion, was confused respecting the object of want, is said of a man only before he has determined upon the thing alluded to. (TA.) ― -b5- سكّرهُ, inf. n. تَسْكِيرٌ, also signifies He squeezed his throat, or throttled him. (S, K.) One says, البَعِيرُ يُسَكِّرُ اآخَرَ بِذِرَاعِهِ حَتَّى يَكَادُ يَقْتُلُهُ [ The camel throttles another with his arm so that he almost kills him ]. (S.)