عِرَانٌ
Root: عرن
Full Definition
عِرَانٌ
A piece of wood, or stick, which is inserted in the partition between the nostrils of a camel of the species called
بُخْتِىّ. (S. [See also خِشَاشٌ.])
2 And The wooden thing [app. meaning the pin, or axis,] of the sheave of a pulley, by which the خُطَّاف [or iron thing in which is the pin whereon the sheave turns] is made firm: pl. أَعْرِنَةٌ.
3 And A nail; accord. to El-Hejeree, that conjoins the spear-head and the shaft. And A horn.
def.2 Also Trees occupying an extended, or oblong, tract.
2 And Roads: in this sense a pl. having no singular.
def.3 See also عَرِينٌ.
def.4 And see عَرَنٌ, former half.
def.5 Also Distance, or remoteness, of a house, or dwelling, or abode.
2 And [hence,] دَارٌ عِرَانٌ and دَارٌ A distant, or remote, house or dwelling or abode; and دِيَارٌ عِرَانٌ and دِيَارٌ distant, or remote, houses &c.; عِرَانٌ being an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet [and therefore applicable to a pl. and to a fem. as well as a masc. sing.]: ISd says, it is not in my opinion a pl., as the lexicologists hold it to be.
def.6 Also Fight, or conflict.
2 And The wooden thing [app. meaning the pin, or axis,] of the sheave of a pulley, by which the خُطَّاف [or iron thing in which is the pin whereon the sheave turns] is made firm: pl. أَعْرِنَةٌ.
3 And A nail; accord. to El-Hejeree, that conjoins the spear-head and the shaft. And A horn.
def.2 Also Trees occupying an extended, or oblong, tract.
2 And Roads: in this sense a pl. having no singular.
def.3 See also عَرِينٌ.
def.4 And see عَرَنٌ, former half.
def.5 Also Distance, or remoteness, of a house, or dwelling, or abode.
2 And [hence,] دَارٌ عِرَانٌ and دَارٌ A distant, or remote, house or dwelling or abode; and دِيَارٌ عِرَانٌ and دِيَارٌ distant, or remote, houses &c.; عِرَانٌ being an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet [and therefore applicable to a pl. and to a fem. as well as a masc. sing.]: ISd says, it is not in my opinion a pl., as the lexicologists hold it to be.
def.6 Also Fight, or conflict.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more