Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَوَارٌ

Root: شور

Full Definition

شَوَارٌ : see شُورَةٌ.

def.2 Also, and شِوَارٌ , and شُوَارٌ , The furniture and utensils of a house or tent; such as are deemed goodly: and of a camel's saddle.
2 And the first, and ↓ second, and ↓ third, The pudendum, or pundenda, (فَرْج, S, Msb,) of a woman and of a man: or a man's penis, [see also مِشْوَارٌ,] and his testicles, and his posteriors or anus (اِسْت). أَبْدَى ٱللّٰهُ شَوَارَهُ is a form of imprecation, meaning May God make bare his pudenda.

def.3 رِيحٌ شَوَارٌ A soft, or gentle, wind: of the dial. of El-Yemen.


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