Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

الأَسْهَرَانِ

Root: سهر

Full Definition

الأَسْهَرَانِ Two ducts (عِرْقَانِ) in the two nostrils, in the inside, which, when an ass is excited by lust, flow with water, or with blood: so in the verse of Esh-Shemmákh, تُوَائِلُ مِنْ مِصَكٍّ أَنْصَبَتْهُ حَوَالِبُ أَسْهَرَيْهِ بِالذَّنِينِ [She seeks to escape from a strong whom the ducts of his two nostrils flowing with mucus have fatigued]: or the nose and the penis: or two ducts in the flesh and sinew next the back-bone, through which runs the seminal fluid into the penis: or two ducts rising from the two testicles, and meeting together in the interior of the penis, or of the فَيْشَلَة [or glans of the penis]; which are the ducts of the seminal fluid: or the two veins or ducts of the penis which become prominent when it is in a state of erection: and two veins or ducts in the eye: but As disallows اسهريه, and says that the true reading, in the verse of Esh-Shemmákh, is أَسْهَرَتْهُ, meaning, [that] have not suffered him to sleep. [See also حَالِبٌ.]


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