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عِرْوٌ

Root: عرو

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عِرْوٌ : see عَرًا:

def.2 and see also عُرْوَةٌ.

def.3 Also One who is not disquieted, or rendered anxious, or grieved, by an affair: [or] أَنَا عِرْوٌ مِنْهُ means I am free, or free in mind, (خِلْوٌ,) from it: but it is held by ISd to belong to art. عرى: the pl. is أَعْرَآءٌ; which is said in the Tekmileh to signify persons who are not disquieted, or rendered anxious, or grieved, by that which disquiets, &c., their companions.

def.4 And A company of men: [pl. as above:] one says, بِهَا أَعْرَآءٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ [In it are companies of men].
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