زِرٌّ

Root: زر

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زِرٌّ , and زُرٌّ , app. in the same sense, and زَرٌّ has been also mentioned, but this is doubtful, A button of a shirt, and of other things, as, for instance, of a curtain: or the loop into which a button is put: the latter, accord. to Az, is the right meaning: [but the former is that to which the word is generally applied:] the former is also called زِيرٌ, by a change of the first ر: pl. [of pauc.] أَزْرَارٌ and [of mult.] زُرُورٌ. [Hence the saying,] هُوَ أَلْزَمُ لِى مِنْ زِرِّى لِعُرْوَتِهِ [He is more fast to me than my button to its loop]. And أَعْطَانِيهِ بِزِرِّهِ He gave it to me altogether.
2 الزِّرُّ [The star ξ of Gemini;] one of the two stars called الهَنْعَةُ.
3 زِرٌّ also signifies A certain piece of wood at the upper extremity of the pole of a tent: pl. أَزْرَارٌ: the upper end of the tent-pole is inserted into it: or the ازرار of a tent (خِبَآء) are certain pieces of wood which are sewed into the upper parts of the pieces of cloth which compose the tent, the lower ends of which [pieces of cloth] are upon the ground: and زَرَّهَا signifies “ he made in them [namely the said pieces of cloth] such pieces of wood. ”
4 The socket in which the head of the upper bone of the arm turns; resembling the half of a nut: or the head itself of that bone: and the extremity of the hip-bone, in the socket.
5 A certain small bone, resembling the half of a nut, beneath the heart, of which it is the support.
6 The edge, or each of the two edges, of a sword.
7 One says, إِنَّهُ لَزِرٌّ مِنْ أَزْرَارِ الإِبِلِ Verily he is one who keeps close to the camels; a good pastor of them. (S, A, K. [Accord. to the A, it seems to be from زِرٌّ signifying “ a button. ”]) You term also زِرُّ مَالٍ One who drives camels, or the like, vehemently; accord. to some; but the preceding meaning, given in the K, is the more correct: or it signifies one acquainted with the right management thereof; who manages them well; as also مَالٍ.
8 زِرُّ الدِّينِ The support, or prop, of the religion; like the small bone called زِرّ, which is the support of the heart: applied, in a trad., to 'Alee: in another relation, it is زِرُّ الأَرْضِ, meaning he between whom and the earth is a mutual dependance, and without whose existence one would repudiate the earth and mankind: or, accord. to Th, he by whom the earth becomes firm, like as a shirt does by means of its زِرّ [or button].

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