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ذير

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of smearing or marking, particularly with dung, for a specific purpose. It also extends to a description of darkened teeth.

Derived headwords

التذييرnoun
  1. 1.
    smearing with dungclassical

    The act of smearing the udder of a she-camel with wet dung (ذيار) to prevent the young camel from suckling.

ذيارnoun
  1. 1.
    wet dungclassical

    Wet dung, specifically used for smearing the udder of a she-camel.

ذيرverb
  1. 1.
    to smearclassical

    Form II verb meaning to smear, specifically referring to the act of smearing the udder of a she-camel with dung.

  2. 2.
    to darkenclassical

    To have darkened teeth, used to describe a person whose teeth have become black.

ذيرnoun
  1. 1.
    darkened teethclassical

    A state or condition of having darkened teeth.

Parallel reading

التذيير: أن تلطخ أطباء الناقة بالذيار، وهو بعر رطب، لئلا يرتضعها الفصيل.
Al-Tadhyeer: to smear the udder of a she-camel with al-dhiyar, which is wet dung, so that the young camel does not suckle it.
قد غاث ربك هذا الخلق كلهم بعام خصب فعاش الناس والنعم
Your Lord has indeed relieved all these creatures with a year of plenty, so people and livestock lived.
وأبهلوا سرحهم من غير تودية.
And they let their herds graze freely without any worry.
ولا ذيار ومات الفقراء والعدم
And no dung (was available for smearing), and the poor and the destitute died.
ويقال للرجل: إذا اسودت أسنانه: قد ذير فوه تذييرا.
And it is said of a man, when his teeth have blackened: his mouth has become 'dhayyara' (darkened) with 'tadhyeeran'.