عَرَارٌ

Root: عر

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عَرَارٌ A certain plant, of sweet odour, intensely yellow and wide in the blossom; i. q. بَهَارُ البَرِّ [q. v., i. e. buphthalmum, or ox-eye; which is called by both of these names in the present day]: accord. to IB, the wild narcissus (النَّرْجِسُ البَرِّىُّ): and said by some to be a sort of tree [or plant] to which the complexion of a woman is likened: n. un. with ة: IAar says that the عَرَارَة is like the بَهَار; having wood, [or arborescent, app. meaning that it is the buphthalmum arborescens, the flower of which is intensely yellow, agreeably with what is said of it in the O,] having a sweet odour, and growing only in plain land.

def.2 Also, i. e. like سَحَابٌ [in measure], Retaliation of slaughter or of wounding or of mutilation; syn. قَوَدٌ: and anything that is slain in retaliation for another (كُلُّ شَىْءٍ بَآءَ بِشَىْءٍ): of any such thing one says, هُوَ لَهُ عَرَارٌ [It is one slain in retaliation for it]. [This latter meaning is app. taken from the prov. بَآءَتْ عَرَارِ بِكَحْلٍ, relating to two cows; mentioned in art. بوأ.]

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