Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَحْيَرُ

Root: حير

Full Definition

أَحْيَرُ , and مِنْ وَرَلٍ, [More confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course, than a dabb, and than a waral,] are two proverbs; accord. to Hamzeh El-Isfahánee, said because the dabb, [a kind of lizard, as is also the waral,] when it quits its hole, is confounded, and cannot find the right way to to it; and the like is said of the waral.


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