Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَصَرَهُ

Root: اصر

Form: 1

Full Definition

أَصَرَهُI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَصْرٌ, He, or it, confined, restricted, limited, kept close, kept within certain bounds or limits, shut up, imprisoned, held in custody, detained, retained, restrained, withheld, debarred, hindered, impeded, or prevented, him or it: it straitened him. You say, أَصَرْتُ الرَّجُلَ عَلَى ذٰلِكَ I confined, or restricted, the man to that thing, or affair. And أَصَرْتُهُ عَنْ حَاجَتَهُ, and عَمَّا أَرَادَهُ, I withheld, restrained, or debarred, him from the thing that he wanted, and from the thing that he desired.
2 أَصَرَ البَيْتَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He made, or put, to the tent an إِصَار.

def.2 Also, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He broke it.
2 He inclined, or bent, it.
3 It inclined him, عَلَى فُلَانٍ to such a one. See an ex. voce آصِرَةٌ.


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