سَيْرٌ
Root: سير
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سَيْرٌ
an Verbal.Noun of 1 [q. v.]. [Used as a simple subst., A going, in any manner, or any pace; passage, march, journey, progress, or course: a pace: pace as meaning degree of celerity, or rate of going: departure: see also سِيرَةٌ.]
def.2 Also A thong, or strap, or strip of skin or leather; i. q. شِرَاكٌ: pl. [of mult.] سُيُورٌ and سُيُورَةٌ and [pl. of pauc.] أَسْيَارٌ. It is said in a prov., قُدَّتْ سُيُورُهُ مِنْ أَدِيمِكَ [His thongs have been cut from thy hide]: applied to two things exactly resembling each other. And لَيْسَ فِى العَصَا سَيْرٌ is a post-classical prov., meaning There is not in the staff, or stick, a thong: the سير in this case being the thong that is inserted into the perforation of the head of the staff, or stick, and whereof a ring is tied, into which the hand is put: the prov. is applied to him who is unable to perform that which he desires to do.
def.2 Also A thong, or strap, or strip of skin or leather; i. q. شِرَاكٌ: pl. [of mult.] سُيُورٌ and سُيُورَةٌ and [pl. of pauc.] أَسْيَارٌ. It is said in a prov., قُدَّتْ سُيُورُهُ مِنْ أَدِيمِكَ [His thongs have been cut from thy hide]: applied to two things exactly resembling each other. And لَيْسَ فِى العَصَا سَيْرٌ is a post-classical prov., meaning There is not in the staff, or stick, a thong: the سير in this case being the thong that is inserted into the perforation of the head of the staff, or stick, and whereof a ring is tied, into which the hand is put: the prov. is applied to him who is unable to perform that which he desires to do.
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