زعر
1 زَعِرَ, (
S,
A,
Msb,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
Msb,
K,)
inf. n. زَعَرٌ, (
S,
A,
Msb,
K,) His hair, (
S,
A,
Msb,) and his plumage, (
A,) was, or became, scanty, (
S,
A,
Msb,) and thin; (A;) as also ↓ ازعارّ: (
A:) and it (hair, and plumage,
K, and fur,
TA) was, or became, scanty, and thin; (
K,
TA;) as also ↓ ازعرّ and ↓ ازعارّ. (
K.)
b2: Also,
inf. n. as above, said of a man, (assumed
tropical:) His good things, or wealth, or his beneficence, became scanty, or wanting; he became poor; or he became niggardly. (
TA.)
b3: And,
inf. n. as above, (
tropical:) It (the disposition) became evil, or bad: but the verb is seldom used in this sense. (
TA.) See زَعَارَّةٌ.
9 إِزْعَرَّ see above.
11 إِزْعَاْرَّ see 1, in two places.
زَعَرٌ
inf. n. of 1 [
q. v.].
b2: See also زَعَارَّةٌ.
زَعِرٌ: see أَزْعَرُ, in two places:
b2: and see also the paragraph here following.
زُعْرُورٌ (assumed
tropical:) A man of bad disposition, or illnatured: (
S,
K:) the vulgar say ↓ زَعِرٌ. (
S. [زَعِرُ الخُلُقِ occurs in the
TA in art. لظ.])
A2: A well-known fruit; (
S;) the fruit of a well-known tree; (
K;) the fruit of a tree, of which there is a red species and a yellow, having a round and hard stone; (
Mgh;) a fruit of the desert, in make resembling the نَبِق [or fruit of the lote-tree], and in the taste of which is acidity; (
Msb;) it may be the wild نَبِق: (
Msb,
voce سِدْرٌ:)
AA says that the نُلْك is the زعرور; and
IDrd, that the Arabs do not know it: [it is a
coll. gen. n.:] the
n. un. is with ة: (
TA:) [the name is now applied to the medlar, or a species thereof:
accord. to Golius, the “ mespilum; special. quod genus aronium vocat Dios. i. 169: ”]
accord. to
ISh, the tree called دُلْب: (
T:) this, says
Sgh, is different from what
J has mentioned. (
TA.) زَعَارَّةٌ, (
S,
A,
Msb,
K,) [respecting the form of which see حَمَارَّةٌ,] and زَعَارَةٌ, (
S,
A,
K,) the latter a vulgar form, (
S,) and ↓ زَعَرٌ, (
A,) (
tropical:) Illnature; excessive perverseness or crossness: (
S,
Msb,
K:) nouns having no corresponding verb: (
S:) or the verb is ↓ زَعِرَ, but it is seldom used. (
TA.) زَيْعَرٌ (
tropical:) A man having little wealth. (
K,
TA.) أَزْعَرٌ A man (
S) having scanty hair, (
S,
A,
Msb,) and thin: and a bird having scanty and thin plumage: (
A:)
fem. زَعْرَآءُ: (
A,
Msb:) and hair and plumage that is scanty and thin; as also ↓ زَعِرٌ. (
K.)
b2: (
tropical:) A place having few plants, or little herbage; (
S,
A,
K;) as also ↓ زَعِرٌ: (
K,
TA: in the
CK, زَعْرٌ:)
pl. [of the former] زُعْرٌ. (
TA.)