Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَائِرٌ

Root: صير

Full Definition

صَائِرٌ Staying, or abiding, at a water. And صَائِرَةٌ A party, or people, staying, or abiding, at a water.

def.2 Also A twister of men's necks.

def.3 [And The pivot at the top, and that at the heel, of a door; the former of which turns in a socket in the lintel, and the latter in a socket in the threshold:] see سَاكِفٌ.


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