Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَضِرٌ

Root: وضر

Full Definition

وَضِرٌ Dirty, or filthy, with grease, or gravy, or what exudes from flesh-meat, or otherwise, with what is termed وَضَرٌ; applied to a vessel: fem. وَضِرَةٌ and وَضْرَى ; both applied to a woman; and the former, to a hand. See سَهِكٌ.
2 [Hence] الوَضْرَى and The anus; syn. الإِسْتُ, and الفُنْدُورَةَ, (K, TA, [in the CK, الفِنْدِيرَةُ, which is a mistranscription,]) both of which signify the same.
3 [Hence also,] فُلَانٌ وَضِرُ الأَخْلَاقِ Such a one is foul in dispositions.


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