أَعْوَرُ

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أَعْوَرُ Blind of one eye: one-eyed; wanting one eye: or having one of his eyes sunk in its socket: or having one of his eyes dried up: applied to a man, and to a camel, &c.: fem. عَوْرَآءُ: pl. عُورٌ and عُورَانٌ and عِيرَانٌ. The أَعْوَر is considered by the Arabs as of evil omen. It is said in a prov., أَعْوَرُ عَيْنَكَ وَالحَجَرَ [O oneeyed, preserve thine eye from the stone].
2 Squint-eyed; syn. أَحْوَلُ: and عَوْرَآءُ the same, applied to a woman.
3 A crow: so called as being deemed inauspicious; or by antiphrasis, because of the sharpness of his sight; or because, when he desires to croak, he closes his eyes; and عُوَيْرٌ is the dim., and signifies the same.
4 فَلَاةٌ عَوْرَآءُ A desert in which is no water.
5 طَرِيقٌ أَعْوَرُ A road in which is no sign of the way.
6 عَوْرَآءُ القُرِّ A night (لَيْلَةٌ), and a morning (غَدَاةٌ), and a year (سَنَةٌ), in which is no cold.
7 أَعْوَرُ also signifies Anything, and any disposition, temper, or nature, bad, corrupt, abominable, or disapproved: fem. as above.
8 بَدَلٌ أَعْوَرُ [A bad substitute]: a prov. applied to a man who is dispraised succeeding one who is praised: and sometimes they said خَلَفٌ أَعْوَرُ: and Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses the expression خِلَافٌ عُورٌ; as though he made خِلَافٌ pl. of خَلَفٌ, like as جِبَالٌ is pl. of جَبَلٌ.
9 عَوْرَآءُ A bad, an abominable, or a foul, word or saying; opposed to عَيْنَآءُ: i. q. سَقْطَةٌ; i. e. a bad word or saying, that swerves from rectitude: or a word or saying that falls inconsistent with reason and rectitude: or a word or saying which the ear rejects; and in the pl. sense you say عُورَانُ الكَلَامِ: or a bad, an abominable, or a foul, action: as though the word or saying, or the action, blinded the eye: the attribute which it denotes is transferred to the word or saying, or the action; but properly its author is meant.
10 مَعَانٍ عُورٌ, in a trad. of 'Omar, Obscure, subtile, meanings.
11 See also the pl. عِيرَانٌ voce عَائِرٌ, last sentence.

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