إِصْرٌ

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إِصْرٌ A covenant, compact, or contract; as also أُصْرٌ and أَصْرٌ : [see also وصْرٌ:] any bond arising from relationship, or from a covenant or compact or contract, and from an oath: a covenant, compact, or contract, which one does not fulfil, and for the neglecting and breaking of which one is punished: so in the Kur ii. 286: [see also what follows, in two places:] or a heavy, or burdensome, covenant, compact, or contract: so in the Kur iii. 75: so, too, in the same vii. 156: pl. آصَارٌ, a pl. of pauc.: or a heavy, or burdensome, command; such as was given to the Children of Israel to slay one another: so in the Kur ii. 286, accord. to Zj.
2 A weight, or burden; as also أُصْرٌ and أَصْرٌ : so called because it restrains one from motion: pl. as above.
3 A sin; a crime; an offence; as also أُصْرٌ and أَصْرٌ : so called because of its weight, or burdensomeness: or the sin of breaking a compact, or covenant: or a grievous punishment of a sin: so accord. to AM in the Kur ii. 286.
4 A thing that inclines one to a thing. [See also آصِرَةٌ. It is said in the Ham that أَوَاصِرُ is pl. of the former word: but it is evidently pl. of the latter.]
5 A swearing by an oath which obliges one to divorce or emancipate or to pay a vow. So in a trad., in which it is said, مَنْ حَلَفَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ إِصْرٌ فَلَا كَفَّارَةَ لَهَا [Whoso sweareth an oath in which is an obligation to divorce or emancipate or to pay a vow, for it there is no expiation]: for such is the heaviest of oaths, and that from which the way of escape, or evasion, is most strait: the original meaning of اصر being a burden, and a binding.

def.2 The ear-hole: pl. آصَارٌ and إِصْرَانٌ.

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