أَشْعَرُ
Root: شعر
Full Definition
أَشْعَرُ
[More, and most, knowing or cognizant or understanding: see 1, first sentence.
2 And,] applied to a verse, or to a poem, More [and most] poetical.
def.2 Also, and شَعِرٌ , and شَعْرَانِىٌّ , which last I have seen written شَعَرَانِىٌّ, A man having much hair upon his body: or having hair upon the whole of the body: (IAth, L voce أَجْرَدُ [q. v.], in explanation of the first:) or having much and long hair upon the head and body: and the first and second, a goat having much hair: fem. of the first شَعْرَآءُ: and pl. of the first شَعْرٌ. One says أشْعَثُ أَشْعَرُ, meaning Having his head unshaven and not combed nor anointed. And فُلَانٌ أَشْعَرُ الرَّقَبَةِ [lit. Such a one is hairy in the neck] is said of a man though he have not hair upon his neck, as meaning
2 [The fem.] شَعْرَآءُ also signifies A testicle, or scrotum, (خُصْيَةٌ,) having much hair: and the سَوْءَة [or pudendum]: thus used as a subst. (IAar, TA in art. معط.) See also شِعْرَةٌ.
3 And A furred garment.
4 And as an epithet,
5 And أَشْعَرُ signifies also The hair that surrounds the solid hoof: or [the extremity, or border, of the pastern, next the solid hoof; i. e.] the extremity of the skin surrounding the solid hoof, where the small hairs grow around it: or the part between the hoof of a horse and the place where the hair of the pastern terminates: and the part of a camel's foot where the hair terminates: pl. أَشَاعِرُ, because it is [in this sense] a subst.
6 Also The side of the vulva, or external portion of the female organs of generation: it is said that the أَشْعَرَانِ are the إِسْكَتَانِ, which are the two sides [or labia majora] of the vulva of a woman: or the two parts next to the شُفْرَانِ, which are the two borders of the إِسْكَتَانِ: or the two parts between the إِسْكَتَانِ and the شُفْرَانِ: or the two parts next to the شُفْرَانِ, in the hair, particularly: the أَشَاعِر of the حَيَآء [or vulva of a camel &c.] are the parts where the hair terminates: and the أَشَاعِر of a she-camel are the sides of the vulva.
7 And A thing that comes forth from [between] the two halves of the hoof of a sheep or goat, resembling a ثُؤْلُول [or wart]; for which it is cauterized.
8 And Flesh coming forth beneath the nail: pl. شُعُرٌ, with two dammehs, or شُعْرٌ.
9 And [the fem.] شَعْرَآءُ also signifies
10 And
11 And
12 Also
13 And [hence, perhaps, as this kind of fly is seen in swarms,]
2 And,] applied to a verse, or to a poem, More [and most] poetical.
def.2 Also, and شَعِرٌ , and شَعْرَانِىٌّ , which last I have seen written شَعَرَانِىٌّ, A man having much hair upon his body: or having hair upon the whole of the body: (IAth, L voce أَجْرَدُ [q. v.], in explanation of the first:) or having much and long hair upon the head and body: and the first and second, a goat having much hair: fem. of the first شَعْرَآءُ: and pl. of the first شَعْرٌ. One says أشْعَثُ أَشْعَرُ, meaning Having his head unshaven and not combed nor anointed. And فُلَانٌ أَشْعَرُ الرَّقَبَةِ [lit. Such a one is hairy in the neck] is said of a man though he have not hair upon his neck, as meaning
2 [The fem.] شَعْرَآءُ also signifies A testicle, or scrotum, (خُصْيَةٌ,) having much hair: and the سَوْءَة [or pudendum]: thus used as a subst. (IAar, TA in art. معط.) See also شِعْرَةٌ.
3 And A furred garment.
4 And as an epithet,
5 And أَشْعَرُ signifies also The hair that surrounds the solid hoof: or [the extremity, or border, of the pastern, next the solid hoof; i. e.] the extremity of the skin surrounding the solid hoof, where the small hairs grow around it: or the part between the hoof of a horse and the place where the hair of the pastern terminates: and the part of a camel's foot where the hair terminates: pl. أَشَاعِرُ, because it is [in this sense] a subst.
6 Also The side of the vulva, or external portion of the female organs of generation: it is said that the أَشْعَرَانِ are the إِسْكَتَانِ, which are the two sides [or labia majora] of the vulva of a woman: or the two parts next to the شُفْرَانِ, which are the two borders of the إِسْكَتَانِ: or the two parts between the إِسْكَتَانِ and the شُفْرَانِ: or the two parts next to the شُفْرَانِ, in the hair, particularly: the أَشَاعِر of the حَيَآء [or vulva of a camel &c.] are the parts where the hair terminates: and the أَشَاعِر of a she-camel are the sides of the vulva.
7 And A thing that comes forth from [between] the two halves of the hoof of a sheep or goat, resembling a ثُؤْلُول [or wart]; for which it is cauterized.
8 And Flesh coming forth beneath the nail: pl. شُعُرٌ, with two dammehs, or شُعْرٌ.
9 And [the fem.] شَعْرَآءُ also signifies
10 And
11 And
12 Also
13 And [hence, perhaps, as this kind of fly is seen in swarms,]
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