عُقْرٌ
Root: عقر
Full Definition
عُقْرٌ
and
عَقْرٌ , or
عَقْرَةٌ and
عُقْرَةٌ , Barrenness, in a woman, and in a man. You say also لَقِحَتِ النَّاقَةُ عَنْ عُقْرٍ [The she-camel conceived after having been barren]. And لَقِحَ
لِقَاؤُكَ عَنْ عُقْرٍ [app.,
2 عُقْرٌ in a palm-tree means [Barrenness, or a drying up, and perishing, occasioned by] having the [fibrous substance called] لِيف stripped off from the heart, and the heart itself taken away; which being done, it dries up and perishes.
def.2 Also, or عُقُرٌ , or the latter is used only by poetic license, Anything which a man drinks, and in consequence thereof has no offspring born to him.
def.3 Also, عُقْرٌ, A kind of dowry, or compensation, which is given to a woman when connection has been had with her in consequence of dubiousness, or a likeness [on her part to the man's wife]: (إِذَا وُطِئَتْ عَنْ شُبْهَةٍ, S; or بِشُبْهَةٍ, Mgh; or عَلَى وَطْءِ الشُّبْهَةِ, IAth:) or a recompense which is given to a woman for connection with her: or a mulct, or fine, which is paid to a woman for ravishing her: or what is given to a female slave who has been ravished, like a dowry in the like case to a free woman: so called because devirgination wounds the object of it: pl. أَعْقَارٌ.
2 Hence, in consequence of frequency of usage, A woman's dowry; i. q. بُضْعُهَا.
3 Also The exploration of a woman to see if she be a virgin or not: but Az says that this is unknown. [Perhaps it is a meaning inferred from what here follows.]
4 بَيْضَةُ العُقْرِ is That [egg] with which a woman is tested on the occasion of devirgination: or the first egg of the hen; because it wounds her: or the last egg of the hen; when she is old and weak: or the egg of the cock, which [they say] he lays once in the year, [or once in his life, for] they assert that it is the egg of the cock, because he lays, in his life, one egg, somewhat inclining to length; so called because the virginity of the girl, or young woman, is tested with it: hence, they say of a thing given one time [only], كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ: or, as some say, it is like the phrases بَيْضُ الأَنُوقِ and الأَبْلَقُ العَقُوقُ; so that it is a phrase proverbially used as applied to a thing that never is: accord. to A'Obeyd, when a niggard gives once, and not again, one says [of the gift], كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ الدِّيكِ; and when he gives a thing, and then stops doing so, one says of the last time [of his giving], كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ. One says also, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ meaning * That happened once, not a second time. And بَيْضَةُ العُقْرِ means also
def.4 Also A grant of land; syn. طُعْمَةٌ; and so عُقْرَةٌ .
2 And A place where people alight (مَحَلَّةُ قَوْمٍ, K, TA) between the house, or abode, and the trough, or tank, for watering beasts &c.; as also عَقْرٌ : or the hinder part of a trough, or tank, for watering beasts &c., where the camels stand when they come to water; as also عُقُرٌ : or the station of the drinker; as in all the copies of the K; but accord. to the T and Nh, the station of the animals drinking: or the place where the bucket is emptied, at the hinder part of the trough, or tank; the place at the fore part being called its إِزَآء: pl. أَعْقَارٌ. It is said in a prov., إِنَّمَا يُهْدَمُ الحَوْضُ مِنْ عُقْرِهِ [lit., The trough, or tank, for watering beasts &c. is demolished only by commencing from its hinder part]; meaning, an affair is performed only by setting about it in the proper way.
3 Also The part of a well where the fore feet of the animals watering stand when they drink.
4 See also عَقْرٌ, in two places.
2 عُقْرٌ in a palm-tree means [Barrenness, or a drying up, and perishing, occasioned by] having the [fibrous substance called] لِيف stripped off from the heart, and the heart itself taken away; which being done, it dries up and perishes.
def.2 Also, or عُقُرٌ , or the latter is used only by poetic license, Anything which a man drinks, and in consequence thereof has no offspring born to him.
def.3 Also, عُقْرٌ, A kind of dowry, or compensation, which is given to a woman when connection has been had with her in consequence of dubiousness, or a likeness [on her part to the man's wife]: (إِذَا وُطِئَتْ عَنْ شُبْهَةٍ, S; or بِشُبْهَةٍ, Mgh; or عَلَى وَطْءِ الشُّبْهَةِ, IAth:) or a recompense which is given to a woman for connection with her: or a mulct, or fine, which is paid to a woman for ravishing her: or what is given to a female slave who has been ravished, like a dowry in the like case to a free woman: so called because devirgination wounds the object of it: pl. أَعْقَارٌ.
2 Hence, in consequence of frequency of usage, A woman's dowry; i. q. بُضْعُهَا.
3 Also The exploration of a woman to see if she be a virgin or not: but Az says that this is unknown. [Perhaps it is a meaning inferred from what here follows.]
4 بَيْضَةُ العُقْرِ is That [egg] with which a woman is tested on the occasion of devirgination: or the first egg of the hen; because it wounds her: or the last egg of the hen; when she is old and weak: or the egg of the cock, which [they say] he lays once in the year, [or once in his life, for] they assert that it is the egg of the cock, because he lays, in his life, one egg, somewhat inclining to length; so called because the virginity of the girl, or young woman, is tested with it: hence, they say of a thing given one time [only], كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ: or, as some say, it is like the phrases بَيْضُ الأَنُوقِ and الأَبْلَقُ العَقُوقُ; so that it is a phrase proverbially used as applied to a thing that never is: accord. to A'Obeyd, when a niggard gives once, and not again, one says [of the gift], كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ الدِّيكِ; and when he gives a thing, and then stops doing so, one says of the last time [of his giving], كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ. One says also, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ meaning * That happened once, not a second time. And بَيْضَةُ العُقْرِ means also
def.4 Also A grant of land; syn. طُعْمَةٌ; and so عُقْرَةٌ .
2 And A place where people alight (مَحَلَّةُ قَوْمٍ, K, TA) between the house, or abode, and the trough, or tank, for watering beasts &c.; as also عَقْرٌ : or the hinder part of a trough, or tank, for watering beasts &c., where the camels stand when they come to water; as also عُقُرٌ : or the station of the drinker; as in all the copies of the K; but accord. to the T and Nh, the station of the animals drinking: or the place where the bucket is emptied, at the hinder part of the trough, or tank; the place at the fore part being called its إِزَآء: pl. أَعْقَارٌ. It is said in a prov., إِنَّمَا يُهْدَمُ الحَوْضُ مِنْ عُقْرِهِ [lit., The trough, or tank, for watering beasts &c. is demolished only by commencing from its hinder part]; meaning, an affair is performed only by setting about it in the proper way.
3 Also The part of a well where the fore feet of the animals watering stand when they drink.
4 See also عَقْرٌ, in two places.
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