اصحر
Root: صحر
Form: 4
Full Definition
اصحرIV
, or اصحر الصَّحْرَآءَ, (Msb, [but I think that this is a mistake for اصحر إِلَى الصَّحْرَآءِ,]) Verbal.Noun إِصْحَارٌ, He went forth to the
صحرآء [or desert, &c.], or into the
صحرآء: تصحّر [in this sense] has not been heard.
2 Hence, in a trad., the saying of Umm-Selemeh to 'Áïsheh, سَكَّنَ ٱللّٰهُ عُقَيْرَاكِ فَلَا تُصْحِرِيهَا [app. meaning, accord. to explanations of it in the TA in art. عقر, God hath made thy dwelling and estate, or, as Z explains it, thy person (نَفْسَكِ), to be quietly settled, therefore do not thou remove it forth to the desert]; i. e. لَا تُبْرِزِيهَا إِلَى الصَّحْرَآءِ; the verb, accord. to IAth, being made trans. by
3 أَصْحِرْ لِعَدُوِّكَ means
4 One says also, أَصْحَرَ بِالأَمْرِ and أَصْحَرَهُ
5 اصحر said of a place, It was, or became, wide, or spacious; i. e. it became like the صَحْرَآء.
def.2 Said of a man, He was, or became, blind of one eye.
2 Hence, in a trad., the saying of Umm-Selemeh to 'Áïsheh, سَكَّنَ ٱللّٰهُ عُقَيْرَاكِ فَلَا تُصْحِرِيهَا [app. meaning, accord. to explanations of it in the TA in art. عقر, God hath made thy dwelling and estate, or, as Z explains it, thy person (نَفْسَكِ), to be quietly settled, therefore do not thou remove it forth to the desert]; i. e. لَا تُبْرِزِيهَا إِلَى الصَّحْرَآءِ; the verb, accord. to IAth, being made trans. by
3 أَصْحِرْ لِعَدُوِّكَ means
4 One says also, أَصْحَرَ بِالأَمْرِ and أَصْحَرَهُ
5 اصحر said of a place, It was, or became, wide, or spacious; i. e. it became like the صَحْرَآء.
def.2 Said of a man, He was, or became, blind of one eye.
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