عَقِيرَةٌ
Root: عقر
Full Definition
2 A man of high rank who is slain. So in the saying, مَا رَأَيْتُ كَٱلْيَوْمِ عَقِيرَةً وَسْطَ قَوْمٍ [I have not before seen, as on this day, a man of high rank who is slain in the midst of a people].
3 A leg, or shank, cut.
4 Hence, The voice, or a cry; the voice of a singer singing; the voice of a weeper weeping; the voice of a reciter or reader reciting or reading; the utmost extent of the voice or of a cry. You say رَفَعَ فُلَانٌ عَقِيرَتَهُ Such a one raised his voice: the origin of the saying was this: a man had one of his legs cut, or cut off, and he raised it, and put it upon the other, and cried out with his loudest voice: so this was afterwards said of any one who raised his voice: or it is expl. thus: a man had one of his limbs wounded, and he had camels which were accustomed to his singing in driving them, and which had become dispersed from him; so he raised his voice, crying, by reason of the wound; and his camels, hearing, and thinking that he was singing to drive them, came together to him: and hence this was afterwards said of any one who raised his voice, singing.
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