Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَكِرَ

Root: سكر

Form: 1

Full Definition

سَكِرَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun سَكَرٌ and سُكْرٌ, or this is a simple subst., and سُكُرٌ and سَكْرٌ and سِكَرٌ and سَكَرَانٌ, He was, or became, intoxicated, inebriated, or drunken; contr. of صَحَا. [See also سُكْرٌ, below.]
2 [Hence,] سَكِرَ عَلَىَّفُلَانٌ, Verbal.Noun سَكَرٌ, Such a one was, or became, violently angry with me: or angry; or enraged. And لَهُ عَلَىَّ سَكَرٌ He has violent anger against me.
3 And سَكِرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا; and سَكِرَت أَبْصَارُ القَوْمِ; and سَكِرَتْ عَيْنُهُ: see 2.
4 Also سَكِرَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun سَكَرٌ, It was, or became, full.
5 And سَكِرَتِ الرِّيحُ, or سَكَرَت, Present.T ـُ or, as some relate a verse of Jendel Ibn-El-Muthennà Et- Tuhawee, in which it occurs, ـَ [indicating that the pret. is سَكِرَت or that the Present.T is irreg.,] Verbal.Noun سُكُورٌ and سَكَرَانٌ, The wind became still, after blowing. And سَكَرَ, [or سَكِرَ,] Verbal.Noun سُكُورٌ, It became still, ceasing to run: so says AZ: and it became calm, or motionless: so says IAar. And سَكِرَ, or سَكَرَ, Present.T ـُ It ceased to boil, or estuate, or to burn, or be hot: and it became allayed, or it subsided.

def.2 سَكَرَهُ: see 4.
2 Also, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun سَكْرٌ, He filled it.
3 Also, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun; and سكّرهُ , Verbal.Noun تَسْكِيرٌ; He stopped it up, or dammed it; namely, a river, or rivulet. And hence, سَكَرَ البَابَ, and سكّرهُ , He closed, or stopped up, the door.
4 سُكِرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا: see 2.


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