Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Sign Up
Home › Dictionary › عرة

عُرَّةٌ

Root: عر

Full Definition

عُرَّةٌ : see عَرٌّ.
2 Also Madness, or such as is caused by diabolical possession, affecting a man: You say, بِهِ عُرَّةٌ In him is madness, &c.
3 Dung, such as is called بَعَر, and سِرْجِين, or سِرْقِين, [i. e. dung of horses or other solid-hoofed animals, and of camels, sheep and goats, wild oxen, and the like,] and that of birds; as also عُرٌّ : and human ordure. It is said in a trad., لَعَنَ ٱللّٰهُ بَائِعَ العُرَّةِ وَمُشْتَرِيَهَا i. e. [God has cursed, or may God curse, the seller of] سرقين [or perhaps the meaning may be human ordure, and the buyer thereof],
4 Dirt, or filth.
5 Filthiness in the natural dispositions.
6 A thing that exposes its author to disgrace; a vice, or fault, or the like. See also مَعَرَّةٌ. [And see عُرٌّ, voce عَرٌّ. Hence,] عُرَّةُ النِّسَآءِ That which disgraces women; their evil conversation or behaviour, with others.
7 As an epithet applied to a man, Dirty, or filthy; as also عَارُورٌ and : [or] having an intensive signification [as though meaning “ dirt, ” or “ filth, ” itself]: a man who is the disgrace of the people [to whom he belongs]: a man sullied, or bespattered, with evil. And one says, فُلَانٌ عُرَّةُ أَهْلِهِ meaning Such a one is the worst of his family.
8 Also The act of doing an abominable, or evil, thing, to another.


Lane's Lexicon — The most scholarly Arabic-English dictionary available

The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor. A work of such unique greatness that to this day it remains supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography.

✓ Full text search • ✓ Root-based navigation
✓ Advanced filters • ✓ Mobile access

Go to LanesLexicon

Trusted by 1000+ researchers worldwide
Featured on Fons Vitae • Used by universities globally

Related Words from the Same Root

Verbs

Nouns