Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَيَّارٌ

Root: جير

Full Definition

جَيَّارٌ Quick lime, and the mixtures thereof, with which are plastered watering-troughs or tanks, and baths; syn. صَارُوجٌ: quick lime and gypsum mixed with ashes: or quick lime alone. (TA. [See also جِيرٌ.])

def.2 [A limeburner: so in the present day: see أَتُونٌ.]

def.3 Heat in the chest, by reason of rage or hunger; as also جَائِرٌ : or cough, or the like. It is app. of the measure فَعَّالٌ; or it may be of the measure فَيْعَالٌ; or فَوْعَالٌ [originally جَوْيَارٌ].
2 Strength, or vehemence.


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