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أَسَرُّ

Root: سر

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أَسَرُّ An adventive; one abiding among a people to whom he is not related; syn. دَخِيلٌ. Lebeed says, وَجَدِّى فَارِسُ الرَّعْشَآءِ مِنْهُمْ رَئِيسٌ لَا أَسَرُّ وَلَا سَنِيدُ [And my grandfather, the rider of Er-Raashà, was of them; a chief, not an adventive, nor of suspected origin].

def.2 Also a camel having a gall, or sore, in the كِرْكِرَة [or callous projection upon the breast]: or having a pain therein, arising from a gall, or sore: or having sores in the hinder part thereof, nearly penetrating into his inside, but not mortal: or having the disorder termed ضَبٌّ, which is a tumour in the breast: fem. سَرَّآءُ. [See سَرَرٌ.]
2 زَنْدٌ أَسَرُّ A زند [or piece of stick, or wood, for producing fire,] that has become hollow [by wear]. And قَنَاةٌ سَرَّآءُ A hollow spearshaft.
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