Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَرِيرٌ

Root: عر

Full Definition

عَرِيرٌ A stranger among a people: occurring, in the accus. case, in a trad., in which some read غَرِيرًا, with the pointed غ; and some say that the right reading is غَرِيًّا, i. e. مُلْصَقًا [here meaning “ an adherent ”]: but Hr and IAth agree with Az [and the S] and Z and the [O and] K.


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