Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اسكرهُ

Root: سكر

Form: 4

Full Definition

اسكرهُIV It intoxicated, or inebriated, him; or deprived him of his reason; as also, accord. to some, ; but the former is that which commonly obtains; [and سكّرهُ has the same signification; or its Verbal.Noun] تَسْكِيرٌ signifies the causing, or making, to be affected with the remains of intoxication. The first is also said of قريض [app. a mistranscription for قريص, which may be syn. with قَارِصٌ, meaning “ sour milk, ” for this has an effect like intoxication when too much of it has been drunk]; and thus applied it is tropical.


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