ظُرَرٌ
Root: ظر
Full Definition
ظُرَرٌ
A sharp-edged hard stone: a stone having an edge like that of the knife: or a [kind of] smooth and broad stone which a man breaks and with which he slaughters a camel; and it is of any colour; and is also thus called before it is broken: and the n. un. is
ظُرَرَةٌ : or, as also
ظُرَرَةٌ and
ظِرٌّ , a stone, in a general sense: or a round stone: or a round sharp-edged stone: or a piece of stone having a sharp edge: the pl. is ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّانٌ; or the pl. is ظِرَّانٌ and ظُرَّانٌ; (Th, M, and so in the K accord. to the TA; [in the CK ظِرَارٌ and ظِرَّارٌ;]) and Th says that the former of these is pl. of ظُرَرٌ, or both may be pls. of ظِرٌّ; and another pl. is أَظِرَّةٌ, [a pl. of pauc.,] occurring in a trad.; or, accord. to ISh, ظِرَارٌ [mentioned above as a pl.] is a sing., and أَظِرَّةٌ is its pl.: and
أُظْرُورٌ and
ظُرْظُورٌ and
مُظْرُورٌ , of which last the pl. is مَظَارِيرُ, and all of which are with damm, thus in the handwriting of Sgh, signify the same [as ظُرَرٌ &c.].
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