الصِّينُ:
بالكسر، وآخره نون: بلاد في بحر المشرق مائلة إلى الجنوب وشماليها الترك، قال ابن الكلبي عن الشرقي: سميت الصين بصين، وصين وبغرابنا بغبر بن كماد بن يافث، ومنه المثل: ما يدري شغر من بغر، وهما بالمشرق وأهلهما بين الترك والهند، قال أبو القاسم الزّجاجي: سميت بذلك لأن صين بن بغبر بن كماد أوّل من حلّها وسكنها، وسنذكر خبرهم ههنا، والصين في الإقليم الأوّل، طولها من المغرب مائة وأربع وستون درجة وثلاثون دقيقة، قال الحازمي:
كان سعد الخير الأندلسي يكتب لنفسه الصيني لأنّه سافر إلى الصين، وقال العمراني: الصين موضع بالكوفة وموضع أيضا قريب من الإسكندرية، قال المفجّع في كتاب المنقذ، وهو كتاب وضعه على مثال الملاحن لابن دريد: الصين بالكسر موضعان الصين الأعلى والصين الأسفل، وتحت واسط بليدة مشهورة يقال لها الصينية ويقال لها أيضا صينية الحوانيت، ينسب إليها صينيّ، منها الحسن بن أحمد ابن ماهان أبو عليّ الصيني، حدث عن أحمد بن عبيد الواسطي، يروي عنه أبو بكر الخطيب وقال: كان قاضي بلدته وخطيبها، وأمّا إبراهيم بن إسحاق الصيني فهو كوفيّ كان يتّجر إلى الصين فنسب إليها، وقال أبو سعد: وممن نسب إلى الصين أبو الحسن سعد الخير ابن محمد بن سهل بن سعد الأنصاري الأندلسي، كان يكتب لنفسه الصيني لأنّه كان قد سافر من المغرب إلى الصين، وكان فقيها صالحا كثير المال، سمع الحديث من أبي الخطّاب بن بطر القاري وأبي عبد الله الحسين بن محمد بن طلحة النّعّال وغيرهما، وذكره أبو سعد في شيوخه، ومات سنة 541، ولهم صينيّ آخر لا يدرى إلى أيّ شيء هو منسوب، وهو حميد ابن محمد بن علي أبو عمرو الشيباني يعرف بحميد الصيني، سمع السريّ بن خزيمة وأقرانه، روى عنه أبو سعيد بن أبي بكر بن أبي عثمان وغيره، وهذا شيء من أخبار الصين الأقصى ذكرته كما وجدته لا أضمن صحته فإن كان صحيحا فقد ظفرت بالغرض وإن كان كذبا فتعرف ما تقوّله الناس، فإن هذه بلاد شاسعة ما رأينا من مضى إليها فأوغل فيها وإنما يقصد التجار أطرافها، وهي بلاد تعرف بالجاوة على سواحل البحر شبيهة ببلاد الهند يجلب منها العود والكافور والسنبل والقرنفل والبسباسة والعقاقير والغضائر الصينيّة، فأمّا بلاد الملك فلم نر أحدا رآها، وقرأت في كتاب عتيق ما صورته: كتب إلينا أبو دلف مسعر بن مهلهل في ذكر ما شاهده
ورآه في بلاد الترك والصين والهند قال: إنّي لما رأيتكما يا سيّديّ، أطال الله بقاءكما، لهجين بالتصنيف مولعين بالتأليف أحببت أن لا أخلي دستوركما وقانون حكمتكما من فائدة وقعت إليّ مشاهدتها وأعجوبة رمت بي الأيّام إليها ليروق معنى ما تتعلّمانه السمع ويصبو إلى استيفاء قراءته القلب، وبدأت بعد حمد الله والثناء على أنبيائه بذكر المسالك المشرقية واختلاف السياسة فيها وتباين ملكها وافتراق أحوالها وبيوت عبادتها وكبرياء ملوكها وحكوم قوّامها ومراتب أولي الأمر والنهي لديها لأن معرفة ذلك زيادة في البصيرة واجبة في السيرة قد حضّ الله تعالى عليها أولي التيقظ والاعتبار وكلّفه أهل العقول والأبصار فقال، جلّ اسمه: أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا في الْأَرْضِ 12: 109، فرأيت معاونتكما لما وشج بيننا من الإخاء وتوكّد من المودّة والصفاء، ولما نبا بي وطني ووصل بي السير إلى خراسان ضاربا في الأرض أبصرت ملكها والموسوم بإمارتها نصر بن أحمد الساماني، عظيم الشأن كبير السلطان يستصغر في جنبه أهل الطّول وتخفّ عنده موازين ذوي القدرة والحول، ووجدت عنده رسل قالين بن الشخير ملك الصين راغبين في مصاهرته طامعين في مخالطته يخطبون إليه ابنته فأبى ذلك واستنكره لحظر الشريعة له، فلمّا أبى ذلك راضوه على أن يزوّج بعض ولده ابنة ملك الصين فأجاب إلى ذلك فاغتنمت قصد الصين معهم فسلكنا بلد الأتراك فأوّل قبيلة وصلنا إليها بعد أن جاوزنا خراسان وما وراء النهر من مدن الإسلام قبيلة في بلد يعرف بالخركاه فقطعناها في شهر نتغذّى بالبرّ والشعير، ثمّ خرجنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالطخطاخ تغذّينا فيها بالشعير والدخن وأصناف من اللحوم والبقول الصحراويّة فسبــرنا فيها عشرين يوما في أمن ودعة يسمع أهلها لملك الصين ويطيعونه ويؤدّون الإتاوة إلى الخركاه لقربهم إلى الإسلام ودخولهم فيه وهم يتّفقون معهم في أكثر الأوقات على غزو من بعد عنهم من المشركين، ثمّ وصلنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالبجا فتغذّينا فيهم بالدخن والحمص والعدس وســرنا بينهم شهرا في أمن ودعة، وهم مشركون ويؤدّون الإتاوة إلى الطخطاخ ويسجدون لملكهم ويعظمون البقر ولا تكون عندهم ولا يملكونها تعظيما لها، وهو بلد كثير التين والعنب والزعرور الأسود وفيه ضرب من الشجر لا تأكله النار، ولهم أصنام من ذلك الخشب، ثمّ خرجنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالبجناك طوال اللحى أولو أسبلة همج يغير بعضهم على بعض ويفترش الواحد المرأة على ظهر الطريق، يأكلون الدخن فقط، فســرنا فيهم اثني عشر يوما وأخبــرنا أن بلدهم عظيم مما يلي الشمال وبلد الصقالبة ولا يؤدّون الخراج إلى أحد، ثم ســرنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالجكل يأكلون الشعير والجلبان ولحوم الغنم فقط ولا يذبحون الإبل ولا يقتنون البقر ولا تكون في بلدهم، ولباسهم الصوف والفراء لا يلبسون غيرهما، وفيهم نصارى قليل، وهم صباح الوجوه يتزوّج الرجل منهم بابنته وأخته وسائر محارمه، وليسوا مجوسا ولكن هذا مذهبهم في النكاح، يعبدون سهيلا وزحل والجوزاء وبنات نعش والجدي ويسمون الشعرى اليمانية ربّ الأرباب، وفيهم دعة ولا يرون الشّرّ، وجميع من حولهم من قبائل الترك يتخطفهم ويطمع فيهم، وعندهم نبات يعرف بالكلكان طيب الطعام يطبخ مع اللحم، وعندهم معادن البازهر وحياة الحبق، وهي بقر هناك، ويعملون من الدم والذاذي البرّي نبيذا يسكر سكرا شديدا، وبيوتهم من الخشب والعظام، ولا ملك لهم، فقطعنا بلدهم في أربعين يوما في أمن وخفض ودعة، ثم خرجنا إلى قبيلة
تعرف بالبغراج لهم أسبلة بغير لحى يعملون بالسلاح عملا حسنا فرسانا ورجّالة، ولهم ملك عظيم الشأن يذكر أنّه علويّ وأنّه من ولد يحيى بن زيد وعنده مصحف مذهّب على ظهره أبيات شعر رثي بها زيد، وهم يعبدون ذلك المصحف، وزيد عندهم ملك العرب وعلي بن أبي طالب، رضي الله عنه، عندهم إله العرب لا يملّكون عليهم أحدا إلّا من ولد ذلك العلوي، وإذا استقبلوا السماء فتحوا أفواههم وشخصوا أبصارهم إليها، يقولون: إن إله العرب ينزل منها ويصعد إليها، ومعجزة هؤلاء الذين يملّكونهم عليهم من ولد زيد أنّهم ذوو لحى وأنهم قيام الأنوف عيونهم واسعة وغذاؤهم الدخن ولحوم الذكران من الضأن، وليس في بلدهم بقر ولا معز، ولباسهم اللبود لا يلبسون غيرها، فســرنا بينهم شهرا على خوف ووجل، أدّينا إليهم العشر من كل شيء كان معنا، ثمّ ســرنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بتبّت فســرنا فيهم أربعين يوما في أمن وسعة، يتغذّون بالبرّ والشعير والباقلّى وسائر اللحوم والسموك والبقول والأعناب والفواكه ويلبسون جميع اللباس، ولهم مدينة من القصب كبيرة فيها بيت عبادة من جلود البقر المدهونة، فيه أصنام من قرون غزلان المسك، وبها قوم من المسلمين واليهود والنصارى والمجوس والهند ويؤدون الإتاوة إلى العلوي البغراجي ولا يملكهم أحد إلّا بالقرعة، ولهم محبس جرائم وجنايات، وصلاتهم إلى قبلتنا، ثمّ ســرنا إلى قبيلة تعرف بالكيماك، بيوتهم من جلود، يأكلون الحمص والباقلّى ولحوم ذكران الضأن والمعز ولا يرون ذبح الإناث منها، وعندهم عنب نصف الحبة أبيض ونصفها أسود، وعندهم حجارة هي مغناطيس المطر يستمطرون بها متى شاءوا، ولهم معادن ذهب في سهل من الأرض يجدونه قطعا، وعندهم ماس يكشف عنه السيل ونبات حلو الطعم ينوّم ويخدّر، ولهم قلم يكتبون به، وليس لهم ملك ولا بيت عبادة، ومن تجاوز منهم ثمانين سنة عبدوه إلّا أن يكون به عاهة أو عيب ظاهر، فكان مسيــرنا فيهم خمسة وثلاثين يوما ثم انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم الغزّ، لهم مدينة من الحجارة والخشب والقصب ولهم بيت عبادة وليس فيه أصنام، ولهم ملك عظيم الشأن يستأدي منهم الخراج، ولهم تجارات إلى الهند وإلى الصين ويأكلون البرّ فقط وليس لهم بقول، ويأكلون لحوم الضأن والمعز الذكران والإناث ويلبسون الكتّان والفراء ولا يلبسون الصوف، وعندهم حجارة بيض تنفع من القولنج وحجارة خضر إذا مرّت على السيف لم يقطع شيئا، وكان مسيــرنا بينهم شهرا في أمن وسلامة ودعة، ثمّ انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم التغزغز، يأكلون المذكّى وغير المذكّى ويلبسون القطن واللبود، وليس لهم بيت عبادة، وهم يعظمون الخيل ويحسنون القيام عليها، وعندهم حجارة تقطع الدم إذا علّقت على صاحب الرعاف أو النزف، ولهم عند ظهور قوس قزح عيد، وصلاتهم إلى مغرب الشمس، وأعلامهم سود، فســرنا فيهم عشرين يوما في خوف شديد ثمّ انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم الخرخيز، يأكلون الدخن والأرز ولحوم البقر والضأن والمعز وسائر اللحوم إلّا الجمال، ولهم بيت عبادة وقلم يكتبون به، ولهم رأي ونظر، ولا يطفئون سرجهم حتى تطفأ موادّها، ولهم كلام موزون يتكلمون به في أوقات صلاتهم، وعندهم مسك، ولهم أعياد في السنة، وأعلامهم خضر، يصلّون إلى الجنوب ويعظمون زحل والزهرة ويتطيرون من المريخ، والسباع في بلدهم كثيرة، ولهم حجارة تسرج بالليل يستغنون بها عن المصباح ولا تعمل في غير بلادهم، ولهم ملك مطاع
لا يجلس بين يديه أحد منهم الّا إذا جاوز أربعين سنة، فســرنا فيهم شهرا في أمن ودعة ثمّ انتهينا الى قبيلة يقال لها الخرلخ، يأكلون الحمص والعدس ويعملون الشراب من الدخن ولا يأكلون اللحم إلّا مغموسا بالملح، ويلبسون الصوف، ولهم بيت عبادة في حيطانه صورة متقدّمي ملوكهم، والبيت من خشب لا تأكله النار، وهذا الخشب كثير في بلادهم، والبغي والجور بينهم ظاهر ويغير بعضهم على بعض، والزنا بينهم كثير غير محظور، وهم أصحاب قمار، يقامر أحدهم غيره بزوجته وابنه وابنته وأمه فما دام في مجلس القمار فللمقمور أن يفادى ويفكّ فإذا انصرف القامر فقد حصل له ما قمر به يبيعه من التجار كما يريد، والجمال والفساد في نسائهم ظاهر، وهم قليلو الغيرة، فتجيء ابنة الرئيس فمن دونه أو امرأته أو أخته الى القوافل إذا وافت البلد فتعرض للوجوه فإن أعجبها إنسان أخذته إلى منزلها وأنزلته عندها وأحسنت إليه وتصرّف زوجها وأخاها وولدها في حوائجه ولم يقربها زوجها ما دام من تريده عندها إلا لحاجة يقضيها ثم تتصرّف هي ومن تختاره في أكل وشرب وغير ذلك بعين زوجها لا يغيره ولا ينكره، ولهم عيد يلبسون الديباج ومن لا يمكنه رقّع ثوبه برقعة منه، ولهم معدن فضّة تستخرج بالزيبق، وعندهم شجر يقوم مقام الإهليلج قائم الساق وإذا طلي عصارته على الأورام الحارّة أبرأها لوقتها، ولهم حجر عظيم يعظمونه ويحتكمون عنده ويذبحون له الذبائح، والحجر أخضر سلقيّ، فســرنا بينهم خمسة وعشرين يوما في أمن ودعة ثم انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لهم الخطلخ، فســرنا بين أهلها عشرة أيّام، وهم يأكلون البرّ وحده ويأكلون سائر اللحوم غير مذكاة، ولم أر في جميع قبائل الترك أشدّ شوكة منهم، يتخطّفون من حولهم ويتزوّجون الأخوات، ولا تتزوّج المرأة أكثر من زوج واحد، فإذا مات لم تتزوّج بعده، ولهم رأي وتدبير، ومن زنى في بلدهم أحرق هو والتي يزني بها، وليس لهم طلاق، والمهر جميع ما ملك الرجل، وخدمة الولي سنة، وللقتل بينهم قصاص وللجراح غرم، فإن تلف المجروح بعد أن يأخذ الغرم بطل دمه، وملكهم ينكر الشرّ ولا يتزوّج فإن تزوّج قتل، ثم انتهينا إلى قبيلة يقال لها الختيان، يأكلون الشعير والجلبان ولا يأكلون اللحم إلا مذكى، ويزوّجون تزويجا صحيحا وأحكامهم أحكام عقلية تقوم بها السياسة، وليس لهم ملك، وكلّ عشرة يرجعون إلى شيخ له عقل ورأي فيتحاكمون إليه، وليس لهم جور على من يجتاز بهم، ولا اغتيال، ولهم بيت عبادة يعتكفون فيه الشهر والأقلّ والأكثر، ولا يلبسون شيئا مصبوغا، وعندهم مسك جيّد ما دام في بلدهم فإذا حمل منه تغير واستحال، ولهم بقول كثيرة في أكثرها منافع، وعندهم حيّات تقتل من ينظر إليها إلّا أنّها في جبل لا تخرج عنه بوجه ولا سبب، ولهم حجارة تسكّن الحمّى ولا تعمل في غير بلدهم، وعندهم بازهر جيّد شمعيّ فيه عروق خضر، وكان مسيــرنا فيهم عشرين يوما، ثمّ انتهينا إلى بلد بهيّ فيه نخل كثير وبقول كثيرة وأعناب ولهم مدينة وقرى وملك له سياسة يلقّب بهي، وفي مدينتهم قوم مسلمون ويهود ونصارى ومجوس وعبدة أصنام، ولهم أعياد، وعندهم حجارة خضر تنفع من الرمد وحجارة حمر تنفع من الطحال، وعندهم النيل الجيّد القانئ المرتفع الطافي الذي إذا طرح في الماء لم يرسب، فســرنا فيهم أربعين يوما في أمن وخوف ثمّ انتهينا إلى موضع يقال له القليب فيه بوادي عرب ممّن تخلف عن تبّع لما غزا بلاد الصين، لهم مصايف ومشات في مياه ورمال،
يتكلمون بالعربيّة القديمة لا يعرفون غيرها ويكتبون بالحميرية ولا يعرفون قلمنا، يعبدون الأصنام، وملكهم من أهل بيت منهم لا يخرجون الملك من أهل ذلك البيت، ولهم أحكام، وحظر الزنا والفسق، ولهم شراب جيّد من التمر، وملكهم يهادي ملك الصين، فســرنا فيهم شهرا في خوف وتغرير، ثم انتهينا إلى مقام الباب، وهو بلد في الرمل تكون فيه حجبة الملك، وهو ملك الصين، ومنه يستأذن لمن يريد دخول بلد الصين من قبائل الترك وغيرهم، فســرنا فيه ثلاثة أيام في ضيافة الملك يغيّر لنا عند رأس كل فرسخ مركوب، ثم انتهينا إلى وادي المقام فاستؤذن لنا منه وتقدّمنا الرّسل فأذن لنا بعد أن أقمنا بهذا الوادي، وهو أنزه بلاد الله وأحسنها، ثلاثة أيام في ضيافة الملك، ثمّ عبــرنا الوادي وســرنا يوما تامّا فأشرفنا على مدينة سندابل، وهي قصبة الصين وبها دار المملكة، فبتنا على مرحلة منها، ثم ســرنا من الغد طول نهارنا حتى وصلنا إليها عند المغرب، وهي مدينة عظيمة تكون مسيرة يوم ولها ستون شارعا ينفذ كل شارع منها إلى دار الملك، ثم ســرنا إلى باب من أبوابها فوجدنا ارتفاع سورها تسعين ذراعا وعرضه تسعين ذراعا وعلى رأس السور نهر عظيم يتفرّق على ستّين جزءا كلّ جزء منها ينزل على باب من الأبواب تتلقاه رحى تصبّه إلى ما دونها ثم إلى غيرها حتى يصبّ في الأرض ثمّ يخرج نصفه تحت السور فيسقي البساتين ويرجع نصفه إلى المدينة فيسقي أهل ذلك الشارع إلى دار الملك ثمّ يخرج في الشارع الآخر إلى خارج البلد فكل شارع فيه نهران وكلّ خلاء فيه مجريان كل واحد يخالف صاحبه، فالداخل يسقيهم والخارج يخرج بفضلاتهم، ولهم بيت عبادة عظيم، ولهم سياسة عظيمة وأحكام متقنة، وبيت عبادتهم يقال إنّه أعظم من مسجد بيت المقدس وفيه تماثيل وتصاوير وأصنام وبدّ عظيم، وأهل البلد لا يذبحون ولا يأكلون اللحوم أصلا، ومن قتل منهم شيئا من الحيوان قتل، وهي دار مملكة الهند والترك معا، ودخلت على ملكهم فوجدته فائقا في فنه كاملا في رأيه فخاطبه الرسل بما جاءوا به من تزويجه ابنته من نوح بن نصر فأجابهم إلى ذلك وأحسن إليّ وإلى الرسل وأقمنا في ضيافته حتى نجزت أمور المرأة وتمّ ما جهّزها به ثمّ سلمها إلى مائتي خادم وثلاثمائة جارية من خواص خدمه وجواريه وحملت إلى خراسان إلى نوح بن نصر فتزوّج بها، قال: وبلغنا أن نصرا عمل قبره قبل وفاته بعشرين سنة، وذلك أنّه حدّ له في مولده مبلغ عمره ومدة انقضاء أجله وأن موته يكون بالسّلّ وعرّف اليوم الذي يموت فيه، فخرج يوم موته إلى خارج بخارى وقد أعلم الناس أنّه ميّت في يومه ذلك وأمرهم أن يتجهزوا له بجهاز التعزية والمصيبة ليتصوّرهم بعد موته بالحال التي يراهم بها، فسار بين يديه ألوف من الغلمان الأتراك المرد وقد ظاهروا اللباس بالسواد وشقوا عن صدورهم وجعلوا التراب على رؤوسهم ثمّ تبعهم نحو ألفي جارية من أصناف الرقيق مختلفي الأجناس واللغات على تلك الهيئة ثمّ جاء على آثارهم عامة الجيش والأولياء يجنبون دوابّهم ويقودون قودهم وقد خالفوا في نصب سروجها عليها وسوّدوا نواصيها وجباهها حاثين التراب على رؤوسهم واتصلت بهم الرعية والتجار في غمّ وحزن وبكاء شديد وضجيج يقدمهم أولادهم ونساؤهم ثم اتصلت بهم الشاكرية والمكارون والحمالون على فرق منهم قد غيّروا زيّهم، وشهر نفسه بضرب من اللباس، ثم جاء أولاده يمشون بين يديه حفاة حاسرين والتراب على رؤوسهم وبين أيديهم وجوه كتّابه وجلّة خدمه ورؤساؤه وقواده، ثمّ أقبل القضاة والمعدلون والعلماء
يسايرونه في غمّ وكآبة وحزن، وأحضر سجلّا كبيرا ملفوفا فأمر القضاة والفقهاء والكتّاب بختمه فأمر نوحا ابنه أن يعمل بما فيه واستدعى شيئا من حسا في زبدية من الصيني الأصفر فتناول منه شيئا يسيرا ثمّ تغرغرت عيناه بالدموع وحمد الله تعالى وتشهّد وقال:
هذا آخر زاد نصر من دنياكم، وسار إلى قبره ودخله وقرأ عشرا فيه واستقرّ به مجلسه ومات، رحمه الله، وتولى الأمر نوح ابنه، قلت: ونحن نشك في صحة هذا الخبر لأن محدثنا به ربما كان ذكر شيئا فسأل الله أن لا يؤاخذه بما قال، ونرجع إلى كلام رسول نصر، قال: وأقمت بسندابل مدينة الصين مدة ألقى ملكها في الأحايين فيفاوضني في أشياء ويسألني عن أمور من أمور بلاد الإسلام، ثم استأذنته في الانصراف فأذن لي بعد أن أحسن إليّ ولم يبق غاية في أمري، فخرجت إلى الساحل أريد كله، وهي أوّل الهند وآخر منتهى مسير المراكب لا يتهيأ لها أن تتجاوزها وإلّا غرقت، قال: فلمّا وصلت إلى كله رأيتها وهي عظيمة عالية السور كثيرة البساتين غزيرة الماء ووجدت بها معدنا للرصاص القلعي لا يكون إلّا في قلعتها في سائر الدنيا، وفي هذه القلعة تضرب السيوف القلعية وهي الهندية العتيقة، وأهل هذه القلعة يمتنعون على ملكهم إذا أرادوا ويطيعونه إن أحبوا، ورسمهم رسم الصين في ترك الذباحة، وليس في جميع الدنيا معدن للرصاص القلعي إلّا في هذه القلعة، وبينها وبين مدينة الصين ثلاثمائة فرسخ، وحولها مدن ورساتيق وقرى، ولهم أحكام حبوس جنايات، وأكلهم البرّ والتمور، وبقولهم كلّها تباع وزنا وأرغفة خبزهم تباع عددا، وليس عندهم حمامات بل عندهم عين جارية يغتسلون بها، ودرهمهم يزن ثلثي درهم ويعرف بالقاهري، ولهم فلوس يتعاملون بها، ويلبسون كأهل الصين الإفرند الصيني المثمن، وملكهم دون ملك الصين ويخطب لملك الصين، وقبلته إليه، وبيت عبادته له، وخرجت منها إلى بلد الفلفل فشاهدت نباته، وهو شجر عاديّ لا يزول الماء من تحته فإذا هبت الريح تساقط حمله فمن ذلك تشنجه وإنما يجتمع من فوق الماء، وعليه ضريبة للملك، وهو شجر حرّ لا مالك له وحمله أبدا فيه لا يزول شتاء ولا صيفا، وهو عناقيد فإذا حميت الشمس عليه انطبق على العنقود عدة من ورقه لئلّا يحترق بالشمس، فإذا زالت الشمس زالت تلك الأوراق، وانتهيت منه إلى لحف الكافور، وهو جبل عظيم فيه مدن تشرف على البحر منها قامرون التي ينسب إليها العود الرطب المعروف بالمندل القامروني، ومنها مدينة يقال لها قماريان، وإليها ينسب العود القماري، وفيه مدينة يقال لها الصنف، ينسب إليها العود الصنفي، وفي اللحف الآخر من ذلك الجبل مما يلي الشمال مدينة يقال لها الصّيمور، لأهلها حظّ من الجمال وذلك لأن أهلها متولدون من الترك والصين فجمالهم لذلك، وإليها تخرج تجارات الترك، وإليها ينسب العود الصيموري وليس هو منها إنّما هو يحمل إليها، ولهم بيت عبادة على رأس عقبة عظيمة وله سدنة وفيه أصنام من الفيروزج والبيجاذق، ولهم ملوك صغار، ولباسهم لباس أهل الصين، ولهم بيع وكنائس ومساجد وبيوت نار، لا يذبحون ولا يأكلون ما مات حتف أنفه، وخرجت إلى مدينة يقال لها جاجلّى على رأس جبل مشرف نصفها على البحر ونصفها على البرّ ولها ملك مثل ملك كله يأكلون البرّ والبيض ولا يأكلون السمك ولا يذبحون، ولهم بيت عبادة كبير معظّم، لم يمتنع على الإسكندر في بلدان الهند غيرها، وإليها يحمل الدارصيني ومنها يحمل إلى سائر الآفاق، وشجر
الدارصيني حرّ لا مالك له، ولباسهم لباس كله إلّا أنهم يتزيّنون في أعيادهم بالحبر اليمانية، ويعظمون من النجوم قلب الأسد، ولهم بيت رصد وحساب محكم ومعرفة بالنجوم كاملة، وتعمل الأوهام في طباعهم، ومنها خرجت إلى مدينة يقال لها قشمير وهي كبيرة عظيمة لها سور وخندق محكمان تكون مثل نصف سندابل مدينة الصين وملكها أكبر من ملك مدينة كله وأتم طاعة، ولهم أعياد في رؤوس الأهلّة وفي نزول النيرين شرفهما، ولهم رصد كبير في بيت معمول من الحديد الصيني لا يعمل فيه الزمان، ويعظمون الثّريّا، وأكلهم البرّ ويأكلون المليح من السمك ولا يأكلون البيض ولا يذبحون، وسرت منها إلى كابل فسرت شهرا حتى وصلت إلى قصبتها المعروفة بطابان، وهي مدينة في جوف جبل قد استدار عليها كالحلقة دوره ثلاثون فرسخا لا يقدر أحد على دخوله إلّا بجواز لأن له مضيقا قد غلّق عليه باب ووكل به قوم يحفظونه فما يدخله أحد إلّا بإذن، والإهليلج بها كثير جدّا، وجميع مياه الرساتيق والقرى التي داخل المدينة تخرج من المدينة، وهم يخالفون ملّة الصين في الذباحة ويأكلون السمك والبيض ويقتل بعضهم بعضا، ولهم بيت عبادة، وخرجت من كابل إلى سواحل البحر الهندي متياسرا فسرت إلى بلد يعرف بمندورقين منابت غياض القنا وشجر الصندل ومنه يحمل الطباشير، وذلك أن القنا إذا جفّ وهبّت عليه الريح احتك بعضه ببعض واشتدت فيه الحرارة للحركة فانقدحت منه نار فربما أحرقت منها مسافة خمسين فرسخا أو أكثر من ذلك فالطباشير الذي يحمل إلى سائر الدنيا من ذلك القنا، فأما الطباشير الجيد الذي يساوي مثقاله مائة مثقال أو أكثر فهو شيء يخرج من جوف القنا إذا هزّ، وهو عزيز جدّا، وما يفجر من منابت الطباشير حمل إلى سائر البلاد وبيع على أنّه توتيا الهند، وليس كذلك لان التوتيا الهندي هو دخان الرصاص القلعي، ومقدار ما يرتفع منه كلّ سنة ثلاثة أمنان أو أربعة أمنان ولا يتجاوز الخمسة، ويباع المنّ منه بخمسة آلاف درهم إلى ألف دينار، وخرجت منها إلى مدينة يقال لها كولم لأهلها بيت عبادة وليس فيه صنم وفيها منابت الساج والبقّم، وهو صنفان وهذا دون والآمرون هو الغاية، وشجر الساج مفرط العظم والطول ربّما جاوز مائة ذراع وأكثر، والخيزران والقنا بها كثير جدّا، وبها شيء من السّندروس قليل غير جيّد والجيّد منه ما بالصين، وهو من عرعر ينبت على باب مدينتها الشرقي، والسندروس شبه الكهربائيّة وأحلّها وفيها مغناطيس يجذب كل شيء إذا أحمي بالدّلك، وعندهم الحجارة التي تعرف بالسندانية يعمل بها السقوف، وأساطين بيوتهم من خرز أصلاب السمك الميت ولا يأكلونه، ولا يذبحون، وأكثرهم يأكل الميتة، وأهلها يختارون للصين ملكا إذا مات ملكهم، وليس في الهند طبّ إلّا في هذه المدينة، وبها تعمل غضائر تباع في بلداننا على أنّه صينيّ وليس هو صينيّ لأن طين الصين أصلب منه وأصبر على النار وطين هذه المدينة الذي يعمل منه الغضائر المشبه بالصيني يخمر ثلاثة أيام لا يحتمل أكثر منها وطين الصين يخمر عشرة أيام ويحتمل أكثر منها، وخزف غضائرها أدكن اللون وما كان من الصين أبيض وغيره من الألوان شفّافا وغير شفاف فهو معمول في بلاد فارس من الحصى والكلس القلعيّ والزجاج يعجن على البوائن وينفخ ويعمل بالماسك كما ينفخ الزجاج مثل الجامات وغيرها من الأواني، ومن هذه المدينة يركب إلى عمان، وبها راوند ضعيف العمل والصيني أجود منه، والراوند
قرع يكون هناك وورقه السادج الهندي، وإليها تنسب أصناف العود والكافور واللبان والقتار، وأصل العود نبت في جزائر وراء خطّ الاستواء، وما وصل إلى منابته أحد ولم يعلم أحد كيف نباته وكيف شجره ولا يصف إنسان شكل ورق العود وإنما يأتي به الماء إلى جانب الشمال، فما انقلع وجاء إلى الساحل فأخذ رطبا بكله وبقامرون أو في بلد الفلفل أو بالصنف أو بقماريان أو بغيرها من السواحل بقي إذا أصابته الريح الشمال رطبا أبدا لا يتحرّك عن رطبه، وهو المعروف بالقامروني المندلي، وما جف في البحر ورمي يابسا فهو الهندي المصمت الثقيل ومحنته أن ينال منه بالمبرد ويلقى على الماء فإن لم ترسب برادته فليس بمختار وإن رسبت فهو الخالص الذي ما بعده غاية، وما جفّ منه في مواضعه ونخر في البحر فهو القماري، وما نخر في مواضعه وحمله البحر نخرا فهو الصنفي، وملوك هذه المرافئ يأخذون ممن يجمع العود من السواحل ومن البحر العشر، وأمّا الكافور فهو في لحف جبل بين هذه المدينة وبين مندورقين مطلّ على البحر وهو لبّ شجر يشقّ فيوجد الكافور كامنا فيه فربما وجد مائعا وربما كان جامدا لأنّه صمغ يكون في لبّ هذا الشجر، وبها شيء من الإهليلج قليل والكابلي أجود منه لأن كابل بعيدة من البحر، وجميع أصناف الإهليلج بها وكل شجر مما نثرته الريح فجّا غير نضيج فهو الأصفر، وهو حامض بارد، وما بلغ وقطف في أوان إدراكه فهو الكابلي، وهو حلو حارّ، وما ترك في شجره في أيام الشتاء حتى يسود فهو الأسود مرّ حارّ، وبها معدن كبريت أصفر ومعدن نحاس يخرج من دخانه توتيا جيد، وجميع أصناف التوتيا كلها من دخان النحاس إلّا الهندي فإنّه كما ذكــرنا يخرج من دخان الرصاص القلعي، وماء هذه المدينة وماء مندورقين من الصهاريج المختزن فيها من مياه الأمطار، ولا زرع فيها إلّا القرع الذي فيه الراوند فإنّه يزرع بين الشوك، وكذلك أيضا بطيخهم عزيز جدّا، وبها قنبيل يقع من السماء ويجمع بأخثاء البقر، والعربي أجود منه، وسرت من مدن السواحل إلى الملتان، وهي آخر مدن الهند ممّا يلي الصين وأوّلها ممّا يلينا وتلي أرض السند، وهي مدينة عظيمة جليلة القدر عند أهل الهند والصين لأنّها بيت حجهم ودار عبادتهم مثل مكّة عند المسلمين وبيت المقدس عند اليهود والنصارى، وبها القبة العظمى والبدّ الأكبر، وهذه القبة سمكها في السماء ثلاثمائة ذراع وطول الصنم في جوفها مائة ذراع، وبين رأسه وبين القبة مائة ذراع، وبين رجليه وبين الأرض مائة ذراع، وهو معلّق من جوفها لا بقائمة من أسفله يدعم عليها ولا بعلاقة من أعلاه تمسكه، قلت:
هذا هو الكذب الصراح لأن هذا الصنم ذكره المدائني في فتوح الهند والسند وذكر أن طوله عشرون ذراعا، قال أبو دلف: البلد في يد يحيى بن محمد الأموي هو صاحب المنصورة أيضا والسند كلّه في يده، والدولة بالملتان للمسلمين وملّاك عقرها ولد عمر بن علي بن أبي طالب، والمسجد الجامع مصاقب لهذه القبة، والإسلام بها ظاهر والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر بها شامل، وخرجت منها إلى المنصورة، وهي قصبة السند، والخليفة الأموي مقيم بها يخطب لنفسه ويقيم الحدود ويملك السند كلّه بره وبحره، ومنها إلى البحر خمسون فرسخا، وبساحلها مدينة الدّيبل، وخرجت من المنصورة إلى بغانين، وهو بلد واسع يؤدي أهله الخراج إلى الأموي وإلى صاحب بيت الذهب، وهو بيت من ذهب في صحراء تكون أربعة فراسخ ولا يقع عليها الثلج ويثلج ما حولها،
وفي هذا البيت رصد الكواكب، وهو بيت تعظمه الهند والمجوس، وهذه الصحراء تعرف بصحراء زردشت صاحب المجوس، ويقول أهل هذه البلدان:
إن هذه الصحراء متى خرج منها إنسان يطلب دولة لم يغلب ولم يهزم له عسكر حيثما توجه، ومنها إلى شهر داور ومنها إلى بغنين ومنها إلى غزنين وبها تتفرّق الطرق فطريق يأخذ يمنة إلى باميان وختلان وخراسان، وطريق يأخذ تلقاء القبلة إلى بست ثمّ إلى سجستان، وكان صاحب سجستان في وقت موافاتي إياها أبا جعفر محمد بن أحمد بن الليث وأمه بانويه أخت يعقوب بن الليث، وهو رجل فيلسوف سمح كريم فاضل، له في بلده طراز تعمل فيه ثياب، ويخلع في كل يوم خلعة على واحد من زوّاره ويقوّم عليه من طرازها بخمسة آلاف درهم ومعها دابّة النوبة ووليّ الحمام والمسند والمطرح ومسورتان ومخدّتان، وبذلك يعمل ثبت ويسلّم إلى الزائر فيستوفيه من الخازن، هذا آخر الرسالة.

حور
الحَوْرُ: الرُّجُوْعُ إلى الشَّيْءِ وعنه. وحارَتِ الغُصَّةُ تَحُوْرُ: انْحَدَرَتْ، وأحارَها صاحِبُها. وكُلُّ شَيْءٍ يَتَغَّيُر من حالٍ إلى حالٍ: فقد حارَ. وفي الحديث: " الحَوْر بَعْدَ الكَوْرِ أي الزِّيادَة بعد النُّقْصانِ. والمُحَاوَرَةُ: مُرَاجَعَةُ الكَلامِ. حاوَرْتُ فلاناً، وأحَرْتُ إليه جَوَاباً، والمَحُوْرُ: مَرْجُوْعُ الجَوابِ. وما أحَارَ بكلمةٍ. والحَوِيْرُ: المُحَاوَرَةُ، وكذلك الحِوَارُ والحِوَرُ والمَحُوْرَةُ أيضاً.
ويقولُ الرَّجُلُ لِصاحِبِه: واللِه ما تَحُوْرُ ولا تَحُوْلُ، أي لا تَزْدادُ خَيْراً. ومَحَاوِرُ الرَّجُلِ: مَصَائرُ أمْرِه، واحِدَتُها: مَحْوَرَةٌ. والمَحُوْرَةٌ - أيضاً - الرُّجُوْعُ. والحُوْرُ: النُّقْصَانُ - بِضَمِّ الحاءِ؛ على مِثالِ النُّوْرِ -. وفي مَثَلٍ: " حُوْرٌ في مَحَارَةٍ " أي باطِلٌ في نَقْصٍ، وقد يُفْتَحُ الحاءُ ومَعْناه: رُجُوْعٌ في نُقْصَانٍ. والمَحَارَةُ: المَنْقَصَةُ. وإنَّه لَفي حُوْرٍ وبُوْرٍ: أي في ضَيْعَةٍ. والإحَارَةُ: رَجْعُ اليَدِ في السَّيْرِ. والحَوْرُ: ما تَحْتَ الكَوْرِ من العِمامَةِ. وهي أيضاً: خَشَبَةٌ يُقال لها البَيْضَاءُ. وكذلك الأدِيْمُ المَصْبُوْغُ بِحُمْرَةٍ، يُقال: حَوَّرْتُه تَحْوِيْراً، والجَميعُ: الأحْوَارُ.
والحِوَارُ والحُوَارُ: الفَصِيْلُ أوَّلَ ما يُنْتَجُ، والجَمِيعُ: الحِيْرَانُ. وأحارَتِ النّاقَةُ: صارَتْ ذاتَ حُوَارٍ، والعَرَبُ تُسَمِّي عَقْرَبَ الشِّتَاءِ: عُقَيْرِبَ الحِيْرَانِ، ولا يُنْتِجُوْنَ فيها، أي تُضِرُّ بالحُوَارِ.
والحَوَرُ: الأَدْيْمُ المَصْبُوْغُ بِحُمْرَةٍ. والحَوَرُ: شِدَّةُ بَيَاضِ بَيَاضِ العَيْنِ في شِدَّةِ سَوَادِ سَوَادِها، وامْرَأةٌ حَوْراءُ: بَيْضاءُ حَسَنَة.واحْوَرَّتْ عَيْنُ. صارتْ حَوْراءَ. والجَميعُ: الحُوْرُ والحِيْرُ. وامْرَأةٌ حَوَارِيَّةٌ: بَيْضاء. وعَيْنٌ حَوْراءُ: مُسْتَدِيْرَةٌ. والمِحْوَرُ: الحَدِيْدَةُ التي يَدُوْرُ فيها لِسَانُ الإبْزِيْمِ. وهي أيضاً: الخَشَبَةُ التي تَدُوْرُ عليها البَكْرَةُ، والتي يُبْسَطُ بها العَجِيْنُ. والحُوّاري: أجْوَدُ الدَّقِيْقِ وأخْلَصُه. وحَوَّرْتُ الدَّقِيْقَ: بَيَّضْتُه. وحُرْتُ الثَّوْبَ وحَوَّرْتُه: بَيَّضْتُه بالغَسْل. والحَوَارِيُّوْنَ: ناصِرُوْ النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، وناصِرُوْ عيسى بن مريم صلى الله عليه وسلم، وكُلُّ مُجَاهِدٍِ عند العَرَبِ: حَوَارِيٌّ.
وقال الأصمعيُّ: ما يَعِيْشُ بأحْوَرَ؛ أي بعَقْلٍ، وقيل بقَلْبٍ وَحَاشٍ. وماله حَوَرْوَرٌ: أي شَيْءٌ. وحَوَّرْتُ البَعيرَ: كَوَيْتُه، والمِحْوَرَةُ: المِكْوَاةُ. وحَوِّرْ عَيْنَ بَعِيرِكَ: أي حَجِّرْ حَوْلَها بِكَيٍّ. والكَيَّةُ تُسَمّى الحَوْرَاءَ.
وحَوَّرَ الحائطَ: بمَعْناه. والحارَةُ: كلُّ مُسْتَدَارٍ من فَضَاءٍ وغيرِه مَبْنِيّاً أوغيرَ مَبْنِيٍّ. وحُوِّرَتْ خَوَاصِرُ الإبِلِ: وهو أنْ يُؤْخَذَ خِثْيُها فَيُضْرَبَ به على خَوَاصِرِها. والحائرُ: المَهْزُوْلُ. والوَدَكُ أيضاً. واحْوَرَّتِ القِدْرُ: ابْيَضَّ لَحْمُها قبل النُّضْجِ.
والحَوَرُ: ما تَحْفِلُ به النِّساءُ وُجُوْهَها عند الزِّيْنَةِ؛ يُتَّخَذُ من الرَّصَاصِ. والحَوَرُ: شَجَرٌ، في قول الراعي:
كالجَوْزِ نُطِّقَ بالصَّفْصَافِ والحَوَرِ
وفي المَثَلِ في شَوَاهِدِ الظّاهِرِ على الباطِنِ " أرَاكَ بَشَرٌ ما أحَارَ مِشْفَرةٌ " أحَارَ: رَدَّ إلى جَوْفِه، وهو كقولهم: " عَيْنُه فِرَارُه ".
وطَحَنْتُ الطّاِحَنَة فما أحَارَتْ شَيْئاً من الدَّقِيقِ: أي ما رَدَّتْ. والحَوَرُ: أنْ تَسْوَدَّ عَيْنُ البَقَرَةِ والظَّبْيِ كُلُّها، وليس في بَني آدَمَ أحْوَرُ.

حور

1 حَارَ, aor. ـُ (S,) inf. n. حَوْرٌ and حُؤُورٌ (S, K) and حُورٌ, a contraction of the form next preceding, used in poetry, in case of necessity, (TA,) and مَحَارٌ (S, K) and مَحَارَةٌ (K) and حَوْرَةٌ, (TA,) He, or it, returned, (S, L, K,) إِلَى شَىْءٍ

to a thing, and عَنْهُ from it. (L.) b2: [Hence,] حار عَلَيْهِ It (a false imputation) returned to him [who was its author; or recoiled upon him]. (TA, from a trad.) b3: And حَارَتِ الغُصَّةُ The thing sticking in the throat, and choking, descended; as though it returned from its place. (TA.) b4: [And حار, inf. n. حَوْرٌ and حُورٌ, He returned from a good state to a bad.] You say, حار بَعْدَ مَا كَانَ (TA on the authority of 'Ásim, and so in a copy of the S,) He returned from a good state after he had been in that state: (A 'Obeyd, S, * TA:) so says 'Asim: (TA:) or حار بعد ما كَارَ (TA, and so in copies of the S,) He became in a state of defectiveness after he had been in a state of redundance: (TA:) or it is from حار, inf. n. حَوْرٌ, He untwisted his turban: (Zj, TA:) and means (assumed tropical:) He became in a bad state of affairs after he had been in a good state. (TA. [See حَوْرٌ, below.]) b5: حَارَ وَبَارَ He became in a defective and bad state. (TA. [Here بار is an imitative sequent; (see حَائِرٌ;) as is also يَبُورُ in a phrase mentioned below.]) b6: حار, aor. as above, (Msb,) inf n.

حَوْرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and حُورٌ (S, A, K) and مَحَارَةٌ (S) and مَحَارٌ, (M and TA in art. اول,) It decreased, or became defective or deficient. (S, * A, * Msb, K. * [See also حَوْرٌ, below.]) b7: Also, inf. n. حَوْرٌ (TA) and حُورٌ, (S, K,) He perished, or died. (S, * K, * TA.) b8: Also, aor. ـُ inf. n. حَوْرٌ, He, or it, became changed from one state, or condition, into another: and it became converted into another thing. (TA.) b9: مَا يَحُورُ فُلَانٌ وَلَا يَبُورُ Such a one does not increase nor become augmented [in his substance] (Ibn-Háni, K *) is said when a person's being afflicted with smallness of increase is confirmed. (Ibn-Háni, TA.) A2: حار, (TK,) inf. n. حَوْرٌ, (K,) He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course; syn. تَحَيَّرَ. (K, * TK.) [See also art. حير.]

A3: See also 2.

A4: حَوِرَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. حَوَرٌ; (K;) and حَوِرَتْ, aor. and inf. n. as above; (Msb;) and ↓ احوّر, (K,) inf. n. اِحْوِرَارٌ; (TA;) and احوّرت; (S, K; *) He, (a man, K, TA,) and it, (an eye, S, Msb, K, * TA,) was, or became, characterized by the quality termed حَوَرٌ as explained below. (S, Msb, K, TA.) 2 حوّرهُ, inf. n. تَحْوِيرٌ, He made him, or it, to return. (Zj, K.) b2: He (God) denied him, or prohibited him from attaining, what he desired, or sought; disappointed him; frustrated his endeavour, or hope; (K, TA;) and caused him to return to a state of defectiveness. (TA.) A2: حوّر, inf. n. as above, He whitened clothes, or garments, (S, Msb,) and wheat, or food: (S:) and ↓ حار, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. حَوْرٌ, (TA,) he washed and whitened a garment, or piece of cloth; (K;) but حوّر is better known in this sense. (TA.) b2: حوّر عَيْنَ البَعِيرِ, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He burned a mark round the eye of the camel with a circular cauterizing-instrument, (S, K, *) on account of a disorder: because the place becomes white. (TA.) A3: [He prepared skins such as are called حَوَرٌ: a meaning indicated, but not expressed, in the TA. b2: And app. He lined a boot with such skin: see مُحَوَّرٌ.]

A4: Also, (inf. n. as above, TA,) He prepared a lump of dough, and made it round, (S, K,) with a مِحْوَر, (TA,) to put it into the hole containing hot ashes in which it was to be baked: (S, K:) he made it round with a مِحْوَر. (A.) 3 حاورهُ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) and حاورهُ الكَلَامَ, (TA in art. رجع, &c.,) inf. n. مُحَاوَرَةٌ (S, Mgh, K) and حِوَارٌ, (A, Mgh,) He returned him answer for answer, or answers for answers; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, with him; or bandied words with him; syn. جَاوَبَهُ, (S, and Jel in xviii. 35,) and رَاجَعَهُ الكَلَامَ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) or رَاجَعَهُ فِى الكَلَامِ, (Bd in xviii. 32,) or, of the inf. n., مُرَاجَعَةُ النُّطْقِ. (K.) And حاورهُ He vied, or competed, with him, or contended with him for superiority, in glorying, or boasting, or the like; syn. فَاخَرَهُ. (Jel. in xviii. 32.) 4 احار [He returned a thing]. You say, طَحَنَتْ فَمَا أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا She ground, and did not return (مَا رَدَّتْ) anything of the flour [app. for the loan of the hand-mill: see حُورٌ, below]. (S, K.) b2: احار الغُصَّةَ He swallowed the thing sticking in his throat and choking him; [as though he returned it from its place: see 1: see also 4 in art. حير: and see an ex. voce إِحَارَةٌ.] (TA.) And فُلَانٌ سَرِيعُ الإِحَارَةِ Such a one is quick in swallowing: [said to be] from what next follows. (Meyd, TA.) b3: احار, (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِحَارَةٌ, (TA,) He returned an answer, or a reply. (Msb, TA.) You say, كَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا أَحَارَ إِلَىَّ جَوَابًا I spoke to him, and he did not return to me an answer, or a reply. (S, A, * Msb, * K, *) And in like manner, مَا أَحَارَ بِكَلِمَةِ [He did not return a word in answer, or in reply]. (TA.) A2: احارت She (a camel) had a young one such as is called حُوَار. (K.) 6 تحاوروا, (Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. تَحَاوُرٌ, (S, K,) They returned one another answer for answer, or answers for answers; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, one with another; or bandied words, one with another; syn. تَجَاوَبُوا, (S, K,) and تَرَاجَعُوا, (Jel in lviii. & ا,) or تَرَاجَعُوا الكَلَامَ, (Msb, K,) or تَرَاجَعُوا فِى الكَلَامِ. (Bd in lviii. 1.) [And They vied, or competed, or contended for superiority, one with another, in glorying, or boasting, or the like: see 3.]9 احوّر, (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. اِحْوِرَارٌ, (K,) It (a thing, S, Msb, and the body, TA, and the part around the eye, A, and bread, S, or some other thing, TA) was, or became, white. (S, A, Msb, K.) b2: See also 1, last sentence.10 استحارهُ He desired him to speak [or to return an answer or a reply; he interrogated him]. (S, K.) And استحار الدَّارَ He desired the house to speak [to him; he interrogated the house; as a lover does in addressing the house in which the object of his love has dwelt]. (IAar.) حَوْرٌ inf. n. of حَارَ. (S, A, Msb, K.) [Hence,] نَعُوذُ بِاللّٰهِ مِنَ الحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْنِ, (TA on the authority of 'Ásim, and so in a copy of the S,) a trad., (TA,) meaning We have recourse to God for preservation from decrease, or defectiveness, after increase, or redundance: (S:) or مِنَ الحَوْرِ بَعْدَ الكَوْرِ, (TA, and so in copies of the S,) meaning as above: (S, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) from a bad state of affairs after a good state; from حَوْرٌ signifying the “ untwisting ” a turban: (TA:) or from returning and departing from the community [of the faithful] after having been therein; [from حَارَ “ he untwisted ” his turban, and] from كَارَ “ he twisted ” his turban upon his head. (Zj, TA. [See also كَوْرٌ.]) ↓ فِى مَحَارَةٍ ↓ حُورٌ, (S, K,) and حَوْرٌ, (K,) Deficiency upon deficiency, (S, K,) and return upon return, (TA,) is a prov., applied to him whose good fortune is retiring; (S, K;) or to him who is not in a good state; or to him who has been in a good state and has become in a bad state: (K:) or the saying is, ↓ فُلَانٌ حَوْرٌ فِى مَحَارَةٍ [Such a one is suffering deficiency upon deficiency: حَوْرٌ being used in the sense of حَائِرٌ, like بَوْرٌ in the sense of بَائِرٌ]: so heard by IAar; and said by him to be applied in the case of a thing not in a good state; or to him who has been in a good state and has become in a bad state. (TA.) One says also, البَاطِلُ فِى

حَوْرٍ What is false, or vain, is waning and retreating. (TA.) And وَبُورٍ ↓ إِنَّهُ فِى حُورٍ, (K,) or حُورٍ بُورٍ, (K in art. حير,) Verily he is engaged in that which is not a skilful nor a good work or performance: (فِى غَيْرِ صَنْعَةٍ وَلَا إِجَادَةٍ: so in the L: in the K, for احادة is put إِتَاوَةٍ [which is evidently a mistake]: TA:) or he is in a bad state, and a state of perdition: (TA in art. حير:) or in error. (K. [See also بُورٌ: and see بَائِرٌ, in art. بور; where it is implied that بور is here an imitative sequent of حور.]) And ذَهَبَ فُلَانٌ فِى

وَالبَوَارُ ↓ الحَوَارِ Such a one went away in a defective and bad state. (L, TA.) b2: See also حَوِيرٌ.

A2: What is beneath the [part called] كَوْرٌ of a turban. (K.) A3: The bottom of a well or the like. (K.) b2: Hence, (TA,) هُوَ بَعِيدُ الحَوْرِ (assumed tropical:) He is intelligent; (K;) deep in penetration. (TA.) حُورٌ: see حَوْرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also [app. A return of flour for the loan of a hand-mill; like عُقْبَةٌ (a subst. from أَعْقَبَ) signifying some broth which is returned with a borrowed cooking-pot:] a subst. from احارت in the phrase طَحَنَتْ فَمَا

أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا [q. v. suprà]. (S, K.) حَوَرٌ Intense whiteness of the white of the eye and intense blackness of the black thereof, (S, Msb, K,) with intense whiteness, or fairness, of the rest of the person: (K:) or intense whiteness of the white of the eye and intense blackness of the black thereof, with roundness of the black, and thinness of the eyelids, and whiteness, or fairness, of the parts around them: (K:) or blackness of the whole [of what appears] of the eye, as in the eyes of gazelles (AA, S, Msb, K) and of bulls and cows: (AA, S:) and this is not found in human beings, but is attributed to them by way of comparison: (AA, S, Msb, K:) As says, I know not what is الحَوَرُ in the eye. (S.) b2: Also [simply] Whiteness. (A.) A2: Red skins, with which [baskets of the kind called] سِلَال are covered: (S, K:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: (S:) pl. حُورَانٌ: (K, TA: in the CK حَوَرانٌ:) or (so in the TA, but in the K “ and ”) a hide dyed red: (K, TA:) or red skins, not [such as are termed] قَرَظِيَّة: pl. أَحْوَارٌ: (AHn:) or skins tanned without قَرَظ: or thin white skins, of which [receptacles of the kind called] أَسْفَاط are made: or prepared sheep-skins. (TA.) [In the present day, pronounced حَوْر, applied to Sheep-skin leather.]

A3: A certain kind of tree: the people of Syria apply the name of حَوْرٌ to the plane-tree (دُلْب); but it is حَوَرٌ, with two fet-hahs: in the account of simples in the Kánoon [of Ibn-Seenà], it is said to be a certain tree of which the gum is called كهرباء: (Mgh:) [by the modern Egyptians (pronounced حَوْر) applied to the white poplar:] a certain kind of wood, called البَيْضَآءُ, (K,) because of its whiteness. (TA.) A4: الحَوَرُ The third star, [e,] that next the body, of the three in the tail of Ursa Major. (Mir-át ez-Zemán, &c. [In the K it is incorrectly said to be the third star of بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ الصُّغْرَى. See القَائِدُ, in art. قود.]) حَارَةٌ [A quarter of a city or town; generally consisting of several narrow streets, or lanes, of houses, and having but one general entrance, with a gate, which is closed at night; or, which is the case in some instances, having a by-street passing through it, with a gate at each end:] a place of abode of a people, whereof the houses are contiguous: (Msb:) any place of abode of a people whereof the houses are near [together]: (K in art. حير:) a spacious encompassed tract or place; syn. مُسْتَدَارٌ مِنْ فَضَآءٍ: (A:) pl. حَارَاتٌ. (A, Msb.) حِيرَةٌ: see حَوِيرٌ.

حَوْرَآءُ fem. of أَحْوَرُ [q. v.]. b2: Also A round, or circular, burn, made with a hot iron; (K;) [around the eye of a camel; (see 2;)] so called because its place becomes white. (TA.) حَوَرْوَرَةٌ: see حَوَارِيَّةٌ, under حَوَارِىٌّ.

حَوَارٌ: see حَوِيرٌ: A2: and see حَوْرٌ.

حُوَارٌ, (S, K, &c.,) and sometimes with kesr [↓ حِوَارٌ], (K,) but this latter is a bad form, (Yaakoob,) A young camel when just born: (T, K:) or until weaned; (S, K;) i. e. from the time of its birth until big and weaned; (TA;) when it is called فَصِيلٌ: (S:) fem. with ة: (IAar:) pl. (of pauc., S) أَحْوِرَةٌ and (of mult., S) حِيرَانٌ and حُورَانٌ. (S, K.) [Its flesh is insipid: see a verse cited as an ex. of the word مَسِيخٌ.]

b2: [Hence,] عَقْرَبُ الحِيرَانِ The scorpion of winter; because it injures the حُوَار, (K, TA,) i. e. the young camel. (TA.) حِوَارٌ: see حَوِيرٌ: A2: and see also حُوَارٌ.

حَوِيرٌ (S, K,) and ↓ حَوِيرَةٌ, (S, and so in some copies of the K,) or ↓ حُوَيْرَةٌ, (so in other copies of the K and in the TA,) and ↓ حَوَارٌ (S, K) and ↓ حِوَارٌ (K) and ↓ مَحُورَةٌ (S, K, TA, in the CK مَحْوُرَةٌ) and ↓ مَحْوَرَةٌ and ↓ مُحَاوَرَةٌ [originally an inf. n. of 3] and ↓ حِيرَةٌ (K) and ↓ حَوْرٌ, (TA,) An answer; a reply. (S, K.) You say, مَا رَجَعَ إِلَىَّ حَوِيرًا, &c., He did not return to me an answer, or a reply. (S.) [See a verse of Tarafeh cited voce مُجْمِدٌ.]

حَوِيرَةٌ, or حُوَيْرَةٌ: see what next precedes.

حَوَارِىٌّ One who whitens clothes, or garments, by washing and beating them. (S, M, Msb, K.) Hence its pl. حَوَارِيُّونَ is applied to The companions [i. e. apostles and disciples] of Jesus, because their trade was to do this. (S, M, Msb.) [Or it is so applied from its bearing some one or another of the following significations.] b2: One who is freed and cleared from every vice, fault, or defect: [or] one who has been tried, or proved, time after time, and found to be free from vices, faults, or defects; from حَارَ “ he returned. ” (Zj, TA.) b3: A thing that is pure, or unsullied: anything of a pure, or an unsullied, colour: and hence, b4: One who advises, or counsels, or acts, sincerely, honestly, or faithfully: (Sh:) or a friend; or true, or sincere, friend: (TA:) or an assistant: (S, Msb, K:) or a strenuous assistant: (TA:) or an assistant of prophets: (K:) or a particular and select friend and assistant of a prophet: and hence the pl. is applied to the companions of Mohammad also. (Zj.) b5: A relation. (K.) b6: And حَوَارِيَّةٌ A white, or fair, woman; (A;) as also ↓ حَوَرْوَرَةٌ; (T, K;) and so ↓ حَوْرَآءُ, without implying حَوَرٌ of the eye: (TA:) pl. of the first حَوَارِيَّاتٌ: (A:) or this pl. signifies women of the cities or towns; (K;) so called by the Arabs of the desert because of their whiteness, or fairness, and cleanness: (TA:) or women clear in complexion and skin; because of their whiteness, or fairness: (TA:) or women inhabitants of regions, districts, or tracts, of cities, towns, or villages, and of cultivated land: (Ksh and Bd in iii. 45:) or [simply] women; because of their whiteness, or fairness. (S.) حُوَّارَى White, applied to flour: (A, * K:) such is the best and purest of flour: (K, TA:) and in like manner applied to bread: (A:) or whitened, applied to flour; (S;) and, in this latter sense, to any food. (S, K.) [See also سَمِيدٌ: and see مُحَوَّرٌ.]

رَجُلٌ حَائِرٌ بَائِرٌ A man in a defective and bad state: (S, TA:) or perishing, or dying. (S.) [See the same phrase in art. حير: see also حَوْرٌ: and see بَائِرٌ, in art. بور; where it is said that بائر is here an imitative sequent of حائر.]

A2: See also مَحَارَةٌ.

أَحْوَرُ, (K,) applied to a man, (TA,) Having eyes characterized by the quality termed حَوَرٌ as explained above: (K:) and so حَوْرَآءُ, [the fem.,] applied to a woman: (S, Msb, K: *) pl. حُورٌ. (S, K.) And حُورُ العِينِ, applied to women, Having eyes like those of gazelles and of cows. (AA, S.) Az says that a woman is not termed حَوْرَآء unless Combining حَوَر of the eyes with whiteness, or fairness, of complexion. (TA.) See also حَوَارِيَّةٌ, under حَوَارِىٌّ. b2: طَرْفٌ أَحْوَرُ An eye of pure white and black. (A.) b3: الأَحْوَرُ A certain star: (S, K:) or (K) Jupiter. (S, K.) A2: Also (tropical:) Intellect: (ISk, S, K:) or pure, or clear, intellect; like an eye so termed, of pure white and black. (A.) So in the saying, مَا يَعِيشُ بُأَحْوَرَ (tropical:) [He does not live by intellect: or by pure, or clear, intellect]. (ISk, S, A.) أَحْوَرِىٌّ A man (TA) white, or fair, (S, K,) of the people of the towns or villages. (TA.) [See also حَوَارِىٌّ; of which the fem. is applied in like manner to a woman.]

مَحَارٌ: see مَحَارَةٌ, in two places.

مِحْوَرٌ The pin of wood, or, as is sometimes the case, of iron, on which the sheave of a pulley turns; (S;) the iron [pin] that unites the bent piece of iron which is on each side of the sheave of a pulley, and in which it [the محور] is inserted, and the sheave itself: and a piece of wood which unites (تَجْمَعُ) the sheave of a large pulley [app. with what is on each side of the latter; for it seems to mean here, also, the pivot]: (K:) some say that it is so called because it turns round, returning to the point from which it departed: others, that it is so called because, by its revolving, it is polished so that it becomes white: (Zj:) pl. مَحَاوِرُ. (A.) One says, قَلِقَتْ مَحَاوِرُهُ, meaning (tropical:) His circumstances, (A,) or affair, or case, (K,) became unsettled: (A, K:) from the state of the pin of the sheave of a pulley when it becomes smooth, and the hole becomes large, so that it wabbles. (A.) b2: Also A thing (K) of iron (TA) upon which turns the tongue of a buckle at the end of a waist-belt. (K.) b3: and An iron instrument for cauterizing [app. of a circular form: see 2]. (K.) b4: And The wooden implement (S, K) of the baker, or maker of bread, (S,) with which he expands the dough, (K,) and prepares it, and makes it round, to put it into the hot ashes in which it is baked: (TA:) so called because of its turning round upon the dough, as being likened to the محور of the sheave of a pulley, and because of its roundness. (T.) مَحَارَةٌ: see حَوْرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also A place that returns [like a circle]: or in which a return is made [to the point of commencement]. (K.) b2: A mother-of-pearl shell; an oyster-shell: (S, IAth, Msb, K:) or the like thereof, of bone: (S, K:) pl. مَحَاوِرُ and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ مَحَارٌ. (L.) b3: And hence, A thing in which water is collected; as also ↓ حَائِرٌ. (IAth.) b4: [Hence also,] An oyster [itself]; expl. by دَابَّةٌ فِى الصَّدَفَيْنِ. (L in art. محر.) b5: The cavity of the ear; (K;) i. e. the external, deep, and wide, cavity, around the ear-hole; or the صَدَفَة [or concha] of the ear. (TA.) b6: The part of the shoulder-blade called its مَرْجِع [q. v.]: (S, K:) or the small round hollow that is in that part of the shoulder-blade in which the head of the humerus turns. (TA.) b7: The small round cavity of the hip: and the dual signifies the two round heads [?] of the hips, in which the heads of the thighs turn. (TA.) b8: The palate; syn. حَنَكٌ: and without ة, i. e. ↓ مَحَارٌ, the same, of a man: and, this latter, the place, in a beast, where the farrier performs the operation termed تَحْنِيكٌ: (TA:) or the former signifies the upper part of the mouth of a horse, internally: (IAar, TA:) or the inner part of the palate: (Abu-l-' Omeythil, TA:) or, [which seems to be the same,] the portion of the upper part of the mouth which is behind the فِرَاشَة [or فِرَاش]: and the passage of the breath to the innermost parts of the nose: (TA:) or مَحَارَةُ الحَنَكِ signifies the part [of the palate] which is a little above the place where the farrier performs the operation termed تحنيك. (S.) b9: The part between the frog and the extremity of the fore part of a solid hoof. (Abu-l-' Omeythil, K.) What is beneath the إِطَار [q. v., app. here meaning the اطار of the hoof of a horse or the like]. (TA.) And The مَنْسِم [i. e. toe, or nail, &c.,] of a camel. (TA.) A3: A thing resembling [the kind of vehicle called] a هَوْدَج; (K;) pronounced by the vulgar [مَحَارَّة,] with teshdeed: pl. مَحَارْاتٌ (TA) [and مَحَائِرُ, which is often applied in the present day to the dorsers, or panniers, or oblong chests, which are borne, one on either side, by a camel, and, with a small tent over them, compose a هودج]: the [ornamented هودج called the]

مَحْمِل [vulgarly pronounced مَحْمَل] of the pilgrims [which is borne by a camel, but without a rider, and is regarded as the royal banner of the caravan; such as is described and figured in my work on the Modern Egyptians]. (Msb.) A4: I. q. خَطٌّ [A line, &c.]. (K.) b2: And i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [A side, region, quarter, tract, &c.]. (K.) مَحُورَةٌ and مَحْوَرَةٌ: see حَوِيرٌ.

مُحْوَرُّ القِدْرِ The whiteness of the froth, or of the scum, of the cooking-pot. (S.) b2: جَفْنَةٌ مُحْوَرَّةٌ, [in the copies of the K, erroneously, مُحَوَّرَةٌ,] A bowl whitened by [containing] camel's hump, (S, L, K,) or its fat. (A.) مُحَوَّرٌ Dough of which the surface has been moistened with water, so that it is shining. (TA.) [See also 2.] b2: أَعْيُنٌ مُحَوَّرَاتٌ, in a verse of El-'Ajjáj, Eyes of a clear white [in the white parts] and intensely black in the black parts. (S.) A2: A boot lined with skin of the kind called حَوَرٌ. (K.) مُحَوِّرٌ A possessor of [flour, or bread, such as is termed] حُوَّارَى. (TA.) مُحَاوَرَةٌ: see حَوِيرٌ.

سحر: سَحَر: المعنى الذي ذكره فريتاج وكذلك لين متابعين التبريزي في شرحه الحماسة (ص601) وهو ذهّب الفضة يجب أن يمحي لأن التبريزي قد أخطأ في فهمه للكلمة، فهي ليست سَحَرَ بل شَحَّر (انظر شَحّر)، وهذه لا تعني ذهَّب بل تعني صفّى المعادن ونقاها. وهذا ما لاحظته لدى عباد (3: 225، 226) وانظر رسالتي إلى السيد فليشر (ص225).
سَحَر: بمعنى خلب وفتن وأصابه بالسحر لا يتعدى بنفسه فقط، بل يتعدى بمن، على الرغم من أن من هذه، حرف جر يدل على التجزئة. ففي النويري (إفريقية ص30 ق): كان ملكهم ساحِراً فسحر من عقولهم حتى جعلوه نبياً.
سَحَر: مسخ، بدل صورته وحولها إلى أخرى. ففي ألف ليلة (1: 13): سحرت ذلك الولد عجلاً.
سَحَر: أكل طعام السحور في رمضان. وقد اخترع الشعر المسمى القُومَا (انظر الجريدة الأسيوية 1839، 2: 165) في بغداد اخترعه أهلها في أيام الأسرة العباسية يدعون إلى السحور في شهر رمضان، وقد أطلق عليه اسم القوما لأن منشديه يقولون: قوما لنسحر قوما. وأري أن هذا بداية نشيدهم: وأنا انطقه ((قُومَا لَنسْحَرْ قُومَا)) وأترجمه: هيا إلى السحور هيا! (انظر قُومَا). وسحر في لغة العامة تقابل تسحر في الفصحى.
سَحَّر (بالتشديد)، سحَّر المؤذن: نادى في شهر رمضان بحلول وقت أكل السَحور (ابن جبير ص145) وانظر: مُسَحّر.
أسحر. أسحر الليلُ: تقدم الليل وكاد النهار يظهر (بوشر).
انسحر: سَحِر (فوك، الكالا) ومنسحر: مسحور (بوشر).
سَحَر: ما ينادي به المؤذن عند طلوع الفجر. (الفخري ص278). وجمعه أسحار (عبد الواحد ص68، أبحاث 1 إضافات ص61) سَحْر: طعام الصباح، فطور (عوادي ص718) وهي تصحيف سَحَر. وهذه تصحيف سَحُور (انظر: سُحَيْر) سَحْرَة = صَحْرِة: ندى، رطوبة (محيط المحيط) في مادة صحر.
سِحْرِي: نسبة إلى السِحْر (بوشر) سَحَريّ: هو في أسبانيا الجليد الأبيض (أبو الوليد ص792).
سُحَيْر = سَحُور: طعام السُحُور (زيشر 11: 519).
سحارة: شعبذة، شعوذة (باين سميت 1387).
سُحَيْرة: وقت ما قبل الفجر (المقري 2: 74).
سحارَّة: انظر إسحارة.
سَحَايِرَة: إعصار، زوبعة. عاصفة (شيرب).
سَحَّارة وجمعها سحاحير: نوع من الصناديق (بوشر، محيط المحيط) وهي صندوق كبير نحو ثلاثة أقدام مربعة (بيرتون 1: 121، ريشاردسن سنترال 1: 298، لين عادات 2: 199). ولما لم يكن لهذه الكلمة أية علاقة مع مادة سحر فإني أظن أنها تصحيف زَخّارة، وهذه بدورها تصحيف ذَخَّارة (انظر: ذَخَّارة).
ساحر: محترف السحر، وقد جمعت في معجم بوشر على سُحَراء.
الأسحار: الفجر، ففي ملر (ص2) بالعشي والأسحار.
أسْحارَّة: اشجارة وهو نبات اسمه العلمي: Sysymbrium Polyceraton ( ابن البيطار 1: 48، 217) وفيه: قال أبو حنيفة: وسمعت أعرابياً يقول السحارة ويسقط الألف ولا أدرى هل نفس النبات أولا (2: 110).
مُسَحِرّ: منادٍ ينادي في ليالي رمضان بحلول وقت تناول السحور (لين عادات 2: 87، 261) صفة مصر 14: 232 وما يليها).
مَسْحُورة آلة طرب من القصب ينفخ بها (محيط المحيط).
مَسْحُورَة: حليب يجمد بالمسوه (الانفحة) ويحلّى بالسكر (محيط المحيط).
مَساحرة: ذكرها فريتاج في معجمه ويجب حذفها، ففي العبارة التي نقلها من طرائف دي ساسي (1: 34) نقلاً عن الفخري يجب أن تبدل الحاء بالخاء المعجمة، فالكلمة جمع مَسْخرة (انظر مَسْخرة) بمعنى السخرية أي الهزء. وقد ذكر السيد ألورت في طبعته للفخري (ص383) الكلمة الصحيحة.

سحر

1 سَحَرَهُ He, or it, hit, or hurt, his سَحْر [or lungs, &c.], (Mgh, TA,) or his سُحْرَة [i. e. heart]. (TA.) b2: And the same, aor. ـَ inf. n. سِحْرٌ, (T, TA,) [said to be] the only instance of a pret. and aor. and inf. n. of these measures except the verb فَعَلَ, aor. ـْ inf. n. فِعْلٌ, (MF,) (tropical:) He turned it, (T,) or him, (TA,) عَنْ وَجْهِهِ [from its, or his, course, or way, or manner of being]: and hence other significations here following. (T, TA. [Accord. to the T, this seems to be proper; but accord. to the A, tropical.]) In this sense the verb is used in the Kur xxiii. 91. (Fr.) The Arabs say to a man, مَا سَحَرَكَ عَنْ وَجْهِ كَذَا وَ كَذَا (tropical:) What has turned thee from such and such a course? (Yoo.) أُفِكَ and سُحِرَ are syn. [as meaning (tropical:) He was turned from his course &c.]. (TA.) b3: And (tropical:) He turned him from hatred to love. (TA.) b4: Hence, (TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (T, S, TA,) and inf. n. also سَحْرٌ, (KL, TA,) (tropical:) He enchanted, or fascinated, him, or it; (S, * K, * KL, PS;) and so ↓ سحّرهُ (MA, TA) [in an intensive or a frequentative sense, meaning he enchanted, or fascinated, him, or it, much, or (as shown by an explanation of its pass. part. n.) time after time]: and سَحَرَ عَيْنَهُ He enchanted, or fascinated, his eye. (MA.) You say, سَحَرَ الشَّىْءَ عَنْ وَجْهِهِ, meaning (tropical:) He (an enchanter, سَاحِرٌ) apparently turned the thing from its proper manner of being, making what was false to appear in the form of the true, or real; causing the thing to be imagined different from what it really was. (T, TA. [See سِحْرٌ, below.]) And المَرْأَةُ تَسْحَرُ النَّاسَ بِعَيْنِهَا (tropical:) [The woman enchants, or fascinates, men by her eye]. (A.) And سَحَرَهُ بِكَلَامِهِ (assumed tropical:) He caused him, or enticed him, to incline to him by his soft, or elegant, speech, and by the beauty of its composition. (Msb.) b5: (tropical:) He deceived, deluded, beguiled, circumvented, or outwitted, him; (S, Mgh, K; *) as also ↓ سحّرهُ, [but app. in an intensive or a frequentative sense,] (K, TA,) inf. n. تَسْحِيرٌ. (TA. [Accord. to the Mgh, the former verb in this sense seems to be derived from the same verb in the first of the senses expl. in this art.]) b6: and in like manner, (assumed tropical:) He diverted him [with a thing], as one diverts a child with food, that he may be contented, and not want milk; syn. عَلَّلَهُ; as also ↓ سحّرهُ, inf. n. تَسْحِيرٌ. (S, TA.) One says, سَحَرَهُ بِالطَّعَامِ وَ الشَّرَابِ, and ↓ سحّرهُ, (assumed tropical:) He fed him, and diverted him [from the feeling of want], with meat and drink. (TA.) b7: And سَحَرْتُ الفِضَّةَ (assumed tropical:) I gilded the silver. (Ham p. 601.) b8: سِحْرٌ is also syn. with فَسَادٌ [as quasi-inf. n. of أَفْسَدَ, as is indicated in the TA; thus signifying The act of corrupting, marring, spoiling, &c.: see the pass. part. n. مَسْحُورٌ]. (TA.) [Hence,] one says, سَحَرَ المَطَرُ الطِّينَ and التُّرَابَ, (assumed tropical:) The rain spoiled the clay, and the earth, or dust, so that it was not fit for use. (TA.) b9: And one says of the adhesion of the lungs to the side by reason of thirst, يَسْحَرُ أَلْبَانَ الغَنَمِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) It causes the milk of the sheep, or goats, to descend before bringing forth. (TA.) A2: سَحَرَ also signifies He went, or removed, to a distance, or far away; syn. تَبَاعَدَ; (T, K;) said of a man. (T, TA.) A3: سَحِرَ, aor. ـَ (assumed tropical:) He went forth early in the morning, in the first part of the day; or between the time of the prayer of daybreak and sunrise; syn. بَكَّرَ. (O, K. [See also 4.]) 2 سحّر, inf. n. تَسْحِيرٌ: see 1, in four places. b2: Also (tropical:) He fed another, or others, with the food, or meal, called the سَحُور: (M, Mgh, TA:) or سَحَّرَهُمْ signifies he gave to them the meal so called. (Mgh.) 4 اسحر (tropical:) He was, or became, in the time called the سَحَر; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ استحر. (TA.) And (tropical:) He went, or journeyed, in the time so called: (S, K, TA:) or he rose to go, or journey, in that time; and so ↓ استحر: (TA:) or this latter signifies he went forth in that time. (A. [See also 1, last sentence.]) 5 تسحّر (A, Mgh, Msb) and تسحّر السَّحُورَ (Az, TA) (tropical:) He ate the food, or meal, [or drank the draught of milk,] called the سَحُور. (Az, A, Mgh, Msb, TA.) b2: And تسحّر بِهِ (tropical:) He ate it, (S, * K, * TA,) namely, food, or سَوِيق [q. v.], [or drank it, namely, milk,] at the time called the سَحَر. (TA.) 8 استحر: see 4, in two places. b2: Also (assumed tropical:) He (a cock) crowed at the time called the سَحَر: (S, K:) and he (a bird) sang, warbled, or uttered his voice, at that time. (TA.) سَحْرٌ, and ↓ سَحَرٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) sometimes thus because of the faucial letter, (S,) and ↓ سُحْرٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and, accord. to El-Khafájee, in the 'Ináyeh, ↓ سِحْرٌ, but this is not mentioned by any other, and therefore requires confirmation, (TA,) The lungs, or lights: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) or what adheres to the gullet and the windpipe, of [the contents of] the upper part of the belly: or all that hangs to the gullet, consisting of the heart and liver and lungs: (Msb, TA:) and the part of the exterior of the body corresponding to the place of the lungs: (Mgh, TA: *) and سَحْرٌ signifies also the liver; and the core, or black or inner part, (سَوَاد,) and sides, or regions, of the heart: (TA:) and ↓ سُحْرٌ, the heart; (ElJarmee, K;) as also ↓ سُحْرَةٌ: (TA:) the pl. (of سَحْرٌ, S, Msb) is سُحُورٌ, and (of ↓ سُحْرٌ, S, Msb, and of ↓ سَحَرٌ, Msb) أَسْحَارٌ. (S, Msb, K.) b2: Hence, اِنْتَفَخَ سَحْرُهُ, (S, A, K,) and اِنْتَفَخَتْ

↓ مَسَاحِرُهُ, (A, K,) (tropical:) His lungs became inflated, or swollen, by reason of timidity and cowardice: (A:) said of a coward: (S:) and of one who has exceeded his due bounds: Lth says that, when repletion arises in a man, one says انتفخ سحره, and that the meaning is, [as given also in the K,] he exceeded his due bounds: but Az says that this is a mistake, and that this phrase is only said of a coward, whose inside is filled with fear, and whose lungs are inflated, or swollen, so that the heart is raised to the gullet: and of the same kind is the phrase in the Kur [xxxiii. 10]

وَبَلَغَتِ القُلُوبُ الحَنَاجِرَ. (TA.) b3: And المُقَطَّعَةُ الأَسْحَارِ, and السُّحُورِ, (assumed tropical:) [She that has her lungs burst asunder], an appellation given to the أَرْنَب [i. e. hare, or female hare], (S, K,) or to the swift ارنب, (TA in art. قطع,) by way of good omen, meaning that her lungs will burst asunder; like المُقَطَّعَةُ النِّيَاطِ: (S:) and some (of those of later times, S) say المُقَطِّعَةُ, with kesr to the ط; (S, K;) as though, by her speed and vehemence of running, she would burst asunder her lungs; (S;) or because she bursts the lungs of the dogs by the vehemence of her running, and the lungs of him who purses her. (ISh, Sgh.) b4: and اِنْقَطَعَ مِنْهُ سَحْرِى (tropical:) I despaired of him, or it. (A, K.) And أَنَا مِنْهُ غَيْرُ صَرِيمِ سَحْرٍ (tropical:) I am not in despair of him, or it. (A, B.) صَرِيمُ سَحْرٍ is also expl. as signifying (tropical:) Having his hope cut off: and (tropical:) anything despaired of. (TA.) and صُرِمَ سَحْرُهُ means (tropical:) His hope was cut off. (TA.) A2: Also The scar of a gall on the back of a camel, (K, TA,) when it has healed, and the place thereof has become white. (TA.) A3: and The upper, or highest, part of a valley. (TA.) A4: See also سَحَّارَةٌ.

A5: And see سَحَرٌ, in two places.

سُحْرٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places.

سِحْرٌ: see سَحْرٌ, first sentence.

A2: [Also] an inf. n. of سَحَرَهُ, meaning (tropical:) The turning a thing from its proper manner of being to another manner: (T, TA: [accord. to the T, this seems to be proper; but accord. to the A, tropical:]) and hence, (T, TA,) (tropical:) enchantment, or fascination: (T, * S, * MA, KL, PS:) for when. the enchanter (السَّاحِرُ) makes what is false to appear in the form of truth, and causes a thing to be imagined different from what it really is, it is as though he turned it from its proper manner of being: (T, TA:) the producing what is false in the form of truth: (IF, Msb:) or, in the common conventional language of the law, any event of which the cause is hidden, and which is imagined to be different from what it really is: and embellishment by falsification, and deceit: (Fakhred-Deen, Msb:) or a performance in which one allies himself to the devil, and which is effected by his aid: (TA:) i. q. أَخْذَةٌ [meaning a kind of enchantment, or fascination, which captivates the eye and the like, and by which enchantresses withhold their husbands from other women]: (S:) and anything of which the way of proceeding or operation (مَأْخَذُهُ) is subtile: (S, K:) accord. to Ibn-Abee-'Áïsheh, سِحْر is thus called by the Arabs because it changes health, or soundness, to disease: (Sh:) [and in like manner it is said to change hatred to love: (see 1:)] pl. أَسْحَارٌ and سُحُورٌ. (TA.) b2: Also (tropical:) Skilful eloquence: (TA:) or used absolutely, it is applied to that for which the agent is blamed: and when restricted, to that which is praiseworthy. (Msb.) Thus it is in the saying of Mohammad, إِنَّ مِنَ البَيَانِ لَسِحْرًا (tropical:) [Verily there is a kind of eloquence that is enchantment]: because the speaker propounds an obscure matter, and discloses its true meaning by the beauty of his eloquence, inclining the hearts [of his hearers] in like manner as they are inclined by سِحْر: or because there is in eloquence a novelty and strangeness of composition which attracts the hearer and brings him to such a pass as almost diverts him from other things; therefore it is likened to سِحْر properly so called: and it is said to be السِّحْرُ الحَلَالُ [or lawful enchantment]. (Msb.) The saying of Mohammad mentioned above was uttered on the following occasion: Keys Ibn-'Ásim El-Minkaree and EzZibrikán Ibn-Bedr and 'Amr Ibn-El-Ahtam came to the Prophet, who asked 'Amr respecting EzZibrikán; whereupon he spoke well of him: but Ez-Zibrikán was not content with this, and said, “ By God, O apostle of God, he knows that I am more excellent than he has said; but he envies the place that I have in thine estimation: ” and thereupon 'Amr spoke ill of him; and then said, “By God, I did not lie of him in the first saying nor in the other; but he pleased me, and I spoke as pleased; then he angered me, and I spoke as angered: ” then Mohammad uttered the above-mentioned words. (TA.) Their meaning is, but God knows best, he praises the man, speaking truth respecting him, so as to turn the hearts of the hearers to him, (K,) or to what he says; (TA;) and he dispraises him, speaking truth respecting him, so as to turn their hearts also to him, (K,) or to what he says after. (TA.) A' Obeyd says nearly the same. Or, as some say, the meaning is, that there is an eloquence that is sinful like سِحْر. (TA.) b3: Also (tropical:) Skill; science: Mohammad said, مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ بَابًا مِنَ النُّجُومِ فَقَدْ تَعَلَّمَ بَابًا مِنَ السِّحْرِ (tropical:) [He who learneth a process of the science of the stars (meaning astrology or astronomy) learneth a process of enchantment], which may mean that the science of the stars is forbidden to be learned, like the science of enchantment, and that the learning of it is an act of infidelity: or it may mean that it is skill, and science; referring to what is acquired thereof by way of calculation; as the knowledge of eclipses of the sun or moon, and the like. (ISd, TA.) b4: Also (tropical:) Food; aliment; nutriment: so called because its effect is subtile. (TA.) b5: غَيْثٌ ذُو سِحْرٍ means (assumed tropical:) Superabundant rain. (TA.) سَحَرٌ: see سَحْرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) and ↓ سَحْرٌ, (TA,) and ↓ سُحُرٌ, (Msb,) and ↓ سَحَرِىٌّ, and ↓ سَحَرِيَّةٌ, (K,) (tropical:) The time a little before daybreak: (S, K:) or [simply] before daybreak: (Msb:) or the last part of the night: (Lth, Mgh:) or the last sixth of the night: (Mgh:) the pl. of سَحَرٌ (Msb) and of ↓ سَحْرٌ (TA) and of ↓ سُحُرٌ, (Msb,) is أَسْحَارٌ: (Msb, K, TA:) the سَحَر is thus met. called because it is the time of the departure of the night and the coming of the day; so that it is the مُتَنَفَّس [lit. the “ time of the breathing,” by which is meant the “ shining forth,”] of the dawn: (A:) there are two times of which each is thus called; one, which is [specially] called السَّحَرُ الأَعْلَى, [or the earlier سَحَر,] (A, Mgh,) is before daybreak; (Mgh;) or a little before daybreak: (A:) and the other, at daybreak: (A, Mgh:) like as one says “ the false dawn ” and “ the true: ” (A:) the earlier سَحَر is also called ↓ سُحْرَةٌ: (S, K:) or the سُحْرَة is the same as the سَحَر: or it is the last third of the night, to daybreak. (TA.) Using سَحَر indeterminately, you make it perfectly decl., and say, أَتَيْتُهُ بِسَحَرٍ [I came to him a little before daybreak], agreeably with the phrase in the Kur liv. 34; (S;) and in like manner, ↓ بِسُحْرَةٍ [in the earlier سَحَر]: (S, K:) you also say سَحَرًا, and ↓ سُحْرَةً, (A,) and سَحَرًا مِنَ الأَسْحَارِ: and مَا زَالَ عِنْدَنَا مُنْذُ السَّحَرِ [He ceased not to be with us, or at our abode, from a little before daybreak]: and لَقِيتُهُ بِالسَّحَرِ الأَعْلَى, and بِأَعْلَى سَحَرَيْنِ, and بِأَعْلَى السَّحَرَيْنِ, (TA,) and فِى أَعْلَى السَّحَرَيْنِ, (A, TA,) [I met him in the earlier سَحَر;] but بِأَعْلَى سَحَرٍ, a phrase used by El-'Ajjáj, is erroneous: (TA:) and هٰذِهِ اللَّيْلَةِ ↓ لَقِيتُهُ سَحَرِىَّ and ↓ سَحَرِيَّتَهَا [I met him in the time a little before daybreak of this last night]. (TA.) When, by سَحَر alone, you mean the سَحَر of the night immediately preceding, you say, لَقِيتُهُ سَحَرَ يَا هٰذَا [I met him a little before daybreak this last night, O thou man], (S, K,) making it imperfectly decl. because it is altered from السَّحَرَ, (S,) or because it is for بِالسَّحَرِ; (TA;) and it is thus determinate by itself, (S, K,) without its being prefixed to another noun and without ال: (S:) and in the same sense you say بِسَحَرَ: (TA:) and you say, سِرْ عَلَى فَرَسِكَ سَحَرَ يَا فَتَى [Go thou on thy horse a little before daybreak this night, O youth: so in the TA; but in two copies of the S, for سِرْ I find سِيرَ]: you do not make it to terminate with damm, [like قَبْلُ and بَعْدُ &c.,] because it is an adv. n. which, in a place where it is fitting to be such, may not be used otherwise than as such: (S:) and [in like manner] you say, ↓ لَقِيتُهُ سُحْرَةَ يَا هٰذَا [I met him in the earlier سَحَر of this last night, O thou man]. (TA.) If you make سَحَر the proper name of a man, it is perfectly decl.: and so is the dim.; for it is not of the measure of a noun made to deviate from its original from, like أُخَرُ: you say, ↓ سِرْ عَلَى فَرَسِكَ سُحَيْرًا [Go thou on thy horse a very little before daybreak: so in the TA; but here again, in two copies of the S, for سِرْ I find سِيرَ]: you do not make it to terminate with damm, [like قَبْلُ &c.,] because its being made of the dim. form does not bring it into the class of adv. ns. which may also be used as nouns absolutely, though it does bring it into the class of nouns which are perfectly declinable. (S, TA.) b2: سَحَرٌ also signifies (tropical:) Whiteness overspreading blackness; (K;) like صَحَرٌ; except that the former is mostly used in relation to the time so called, of daybreak; and the latter, in relation to colours, as when one says حِمَارٌ أَصْحَرُ; (TA;) and ↓ سُحْرَةٌ signifies the same; (TA;) i. q. صُحْرَةٌ. (K.) b3: And (tropical:) The extremity (T, A, K) of a desert, (T,) and of the earth or a land, (A,) or of anything: (K:) from the time of night so called: (A:) pl. أَسْحَارٌ. (T, A, K.) سَحِرٌ: see سَحِيرٌ.

سُحُرٌ: see سَحَرٌ, first sentence, in two places.

سُحْرَةٌ: see سَحْرٌ: A2: and سَحَرٌ, in five places.

سَحَرِىٌّ and سَحَرِيَّةٌ: see سَحَرٌ; each in two places.

سَحُورٌ A meal, or food, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) or [particularly] سَوِيق [generally meaning meal of parched barley], that is eaten at the time called the سَحَر; (S, * Mgh, Msb, K* TA;) or a draught of milk that is drunk at that time. (TA.) It is repeatedly mentioned in trads. [relating to Ramadán, when the Muslim is required to be exact in the time of this meal], and mostly as above; but some say that it is correctly [in these cases] with damm, [i. e. سُحُور, which see below,] because the blessing and recompense have respect to the action, and not to the food. (TA.) سُحُورٌ, an inf. n. [without a verb properly belonging to it, or rather a quasi-inf. n., for its verb is تَسَحَّرَ], (TA,) The act of eating the meal, or food, [or drinking the draught of milk,] called the سَحُور [q. v.]. (Msb, TA.) سَحِيرٌ: see مَسْحُورٌ. b2: Also A man having his lungs (سَحْرُهُ) ruptured; and so ↓ سَحِرٌ. (TA.) b3: And Having a complaint of the belly, (K, TA,) from pain of the lungs. (TA.) b4: And A horse large in the belly, (K,) or in the جَوْف [which often means the chest]. (TA.) A2: [and An arrow wounding the lungs: so accord. to Freytag in the “ Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen. ”]

سُحَيْرًا: see سَحَرٌ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

سُحَارَةٌ The parts, of a sheep or goat, that the butcher plucks out (K, TA) and throws away, (TA,) consisting of the lungs, or lights, (سَحْر) and the windpipe, (K, TA,) and the appendages of these. (TA.) سَحَّارٌ: see سَاحِرٌ, in two places.

سَحَّارَةٌ (tropical:) A certain plaything of children; (A, K, TA;) having a string attached to it; (A;) which, when extended in one direction, turns out to be of one colour; and when extended in another direction, turns out to be of another colour: (A, * TA:) it is also called ↓ سَحْرٌ: and whatever. resembles it is called by the former appellation: so says Lth. (TA.) سَاحِرٌ (tropical:) [An enchanter;] a man who practices سِحْر; as also ↓ سَحَّارٌ [in an intensive sense, or denoting habit or frequency]: pl. of the former سَحَرَةٌ and سُحَّارٌ; and of ↓ the latter, سَحَّارُونَ only, for it has no broken pl. (TA.) [Hence,] one says, لَهَا عَيْنٌ سَاحِرَةٌ (tropical:) [She has an enchanting, or a fascinating, eye], and عُيُونٌ سَوَاحِرُ [enchanting, or fascinating, eyes]. (A, TA.) And أَرْضٌ سَاحِرَةُ السَّرَابِ (tropical:) [A land of delusive mirage].(A, TA.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) Knowing, skilful, or intelligent. (S, * TA.) مُسَحَّرٌ, of which the pl. occurs in the Kur xxvi.153 and 185, means Having سُحْر or سَحْر [i. e. lungs]; (Bd, TA;) or created with سَحْر [or lungs]; (S;) i. e. a human being: (Bd:) or diverted [from want] with food and drink: (S, * TA:) and this seems to be implied by the explanation in the K; which is hollow; from Fr: (TA:) or enchanted time after time, so that his intellect is disordered, or rendered unsound: (A, TA:) or enchanted much, so that his reason is overcome: (Bd, Jel:) [see also مَسْحُورٌ:] or deceived, deluded, beguiled, circumvented, or outwitted. (TA.) مَسْحُورٌ Having his lungs (سَحْرُهُ), or his heart (سُحْرَتُهُ), hit, or hurt; as also ↓ سَحِيرٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) b2: [(tropical:) Enchanted, or fascinated.] b3: (assumed tropical:) Deprived of his reason or intellect; corrupted or disordered [in his intellect]. (IAar, Sh.) [See also مُسَحَّرٌ.] b4: (assumed tropical:) Food (طَعَامٌ) marred, or spoilt, (K, TA,) in the making thereof. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) Herbage marred, or spoilt. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) A place marred, or spoilt, by much rain, or by scantiness of herbage. (K.) The fem., with ة, accord. to Az, signifies (assumed tropical:) Land (أَرْضٌ) marred, or spoilt, by superabundant rain, or by scantiness of herbage: accord. to ISh, (assumed tropical:) land in which is little milk; i. e. [because] without herbage: accord. to Z, [in the A,] (tropical:) land that produces no herbage. (TA.) b5: And the fem., applied to a she-goat, (tropical:) Having little milk: (A, TA:) or large in her udder, but having little milk. (Ham p. 26.) مَسَاحِرُ: see سَحْرٌ, second sentence.

امر

1 أَمَرَهُ, (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. ـُ (M, &c.,) inf. n. أَمْرٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and إِمَارٌ, (M, L, K,) which latter, however, is disapproved by MF, (TA,) and إِيمَارٌ is syn. therewith, (K,) but this also is disapproved by MF, and deemed by him strange, [being by rule the inf. n. of ↓ آمَرَهُ, respecting which see what follows,] (TA,) and آمِرَةٌ, (M, K,) which is one of the inf. ns. [or quasiinf. ns.] of the measure فَاعِلَةٌ, like عَافِيَةٌ and عَاقِبَةٌ, (M,) He commanded him; ordered him; bade him; enjoined him; the inf. n. signifying the contr. of نَهْىٌ; (T, M, K;) as also ↓ آمرهُ, (Kr, M, K,) mentioned by A'Obeyd also as a dial. var. of أمَرَهُ: (Msb:) but A'Obeyd says that آمَرْتُهُ and أَمرْتُهُ are syn. [in a sense different from that explained above, i. e.] as meaning كَثَّرْتُهُ. (TA.) You say, أَمَرَهُ بِهِ, (S, M, K,) and أَمَرَهُ إِيَّاهُ, suppressing the prep., (M,) He commanded, ordered, bade, or enjoined, him to do it. (M, K.) And أمَرْتُكَ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ, and لِتَفْعَلَ, and بِأنْ تَفْعَلَ, I commanded, ordered, bade, or enjoined, thee to do [such a thing]. (M.) [And أَمَرَهُ بِكَذَا as meaning He commanded him, or ordered him, to make use of such a thing; or the like: whence, in a trad.,] أُمِرْتُ بِالسِّوَاكِ [I have been commanded to make use of the tooth-stick]. (El-Jámi' es-Sagheer.) [And He enjoined him such a thing; as, for instance, patience.] The imperative of أَمَرَ is مُرْ; originally اؤْمُرْ; which also occurs [with وَ in the place of ؤ when the ا is pronounced with damm]: (M:) but [generally] when it is not preceded by a conjunction, (Msb,) i. e., by وَ or فَ, (T,) you suppress the ء, [i. e. the radical ء, and with it the conjunctive ا preceding it,] contr. to rule, and say, مُرْهُ بِكَذَا [Command, or order, or bid, or enjoin, thou him to do such a thing]; like as you say, كُلْ and خُذْ: when, however, it is preceded by a conjunction, the practice commonly obtaining is, to restore the وَأْمُرْ بِكَذَا, agreeably with analogy, and thus to say, أَمُرْ بِكَذَا. (Msb.) b2: [You say also, أَمَرَ بِهِ فَقُتِلَ He gave an order respecting him, and accordingly he was slain. And أَمَرَ لَهُ بِكَذَا He ordered that such a thing should be done, or given, to him.] b3: In the Kur [xvii. 17], أَمَــرْنَا مُتْرَفِيهَا فَفَسَقُوا فِيهَا, so accord. to most of the readers, (T, &c.,) means We commanded [its luxurious inhabitants] to obey, but they transgressed therein, or departed from the right way, or disobeyed: (Fr, T, S, &c.:) so says Aboo-Is-hák; adding that, although one says, أَمَرتُ زَيْدًا فَضَرَبَ عَمْرًا, meaning I commanded Zeyd to beat 'Amr, and he beat him, yet one also says, أَمَرْتُكَ فَعَصَيْتَنِى [I commanded thee, but thou disobeyedst me]: or, accord. to some, the meaning is, We multiplied its luxurious inhabitants; (T;) and this is agreeable with another reading, namely, ↓ آمَــرْنَا; (TA;) and a reading of El-Hasan, namely, أَمِــرْنَا, like عَلِمْنَا, may be a dial. var., of the same signification: (M:) see 4, in two places: or it may be from الإِمَارَةُ; (S, TA;) [in which case it seems that we should read ↓ أَمَّــرْنَا; or, perhaps, أَمَــرْنَا: see 2:] Abu-l-'Áliyeh reads ↓ أَمَّــرْنَا, and this is agreeable with the explanation of I'Ab, who says that the meaning is, We made its chiefs to have authority, power, or dominion. (TA.) b4: أَمَرَهُ, aor. ـُ also signifies He commanded, ordered, bade, or enjoined, him to do that which it behooved him to do. (A.) [He counselled, or advised, him.] One says, مُرْنِى, meaning Counsel thou me; advise thou me. (A.) b5: أَمَرَ بِاقْتِنَاصٍ, said of a wild animal, means He rendered the beholder desirous of capturing him. (M.) A2: أَمَرَ, (As, Fr, Th, T, S, M, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (Msb, TA;) and أَمُرَ, aor. ـُ (S, M, IKtt, K;) and أَمِرَ, aor. ـَ (M, K, and several other authorities; but by some this is disallowed; TA;) inf. n. أَمْرٌ (K) and إِمْرَةٌ (S) and إِمَارَةٌ; (As, T, S;) or the second is a simple subst.; (K;) or perhaps it is meant in the S that this and the third are quasi-inf. ns.; (MF;) He had, or held, command; he presided as a commander, governor, lord, prince, or king; (M, Msb, K;) he became an أَمِير; (As, T, S;) عَلَى

القَوْمِ over the people. (M, * Msb, K.) [See also 5.]

أَمَرَ فُلَانٌ وَأُمِرَ عَلَيْهِ, or عليه ↓ وأُمِّرَ, (as in different copies of the S,) [Such a one has held command and been commanded,] is said of one who has been a commander, or governor, after having been a subject of a commander, or governor; meaning such a one is a person of experience; or one who has been tried, or proved and strengthened, by experience. (S.) A3: أَمَرَهُ as syn. with آمَرَهُ: see 4.

A4: أَمِرَ, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) inf. n. أَمَرٌ and أَمْرَة; (M, K, TA; the latter written in the CK اَمْرَة;) and أمُرَ, aor. ـَ (IKtt;) (assumed tropical:) It (a thing, M, Msb, or a man's property, or camels or the like, Abu-l-Hasan and S, and a people, T, S) multiplied; or became many, or much, or abundant; (T, S, M, Msb, K;) and became complete. (M, K.) b2: And the former, (assumed tropical:) His beasts multiplied; or became many; (M, K;) [ as also ↓ آمر; for you say,] بَنُو فُلَانٍ ↓ آمر, inf. n. إِيمَارٌ, (assumed tropical:) The property, or camels or the like, of the sons of such a one multiplied; or became many, or abundant. (M.) A5: أَمِرَ الأَمْرُ, (Akh, S, K,) aor. ـَ inf. n. أَمَرٌ, (Akh, S,) (assumed tropical:) The affair, or case, (i. e., a man's affair, or case, Akh, S,) became severe, distressful, grievous, or afflictive. (Akh, S, K.) 2 أمّرهُ, inf. n. تَأْمِيرٌ, He made him, or appointed him, commander, governor, lord, prince, or king. (S, * Mgh, Msb.) [And it seems to be indicated in the S that ↓ أَمَرَهُ, without teshdeed, signifies the same.] See 1, in three places. Yousay also, أُمِّرَعَلَيْنَا (A, TA) He was made, or appointed, commander, &c., over us. (TA.) b2: Also He appointed him judge, or umpire. (Mgh.) b3: أمّر القَنَاةَ (assumed tropical:) He affixed a spear-head to the cane or spear. (T, M.) [See also the pass. part. n., below.] b4: أمّرأَمَارَةٍ He made [a thing] a sign, or mark, to show the way. (T.) 3 آمرهُ فِي أَمْرِهِ, (T, * S, M, Msb,) inf. n. مُؤَامَرَةٌ, (S, K,) He consulted him respecting his affair, or case; (T, * S, M, Msb, K, * TA;) as also وَامَرَهُ; (TA;) or this is not a chaste form; (IAth, TA;) or it is vulgar; (S, TA;) and ↓ استأمرهُ, (M,) inf. n. اسْتِئْمَارٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ ائتمرهُ, (T,) inf. n. ائتِمَارٌ. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., آمِرُوا النِّسَآءَ فِى أَنْفُسِهِنَّ Consult ye women respecting themselves, as to marrying them. (TA.) And in another trad., آمَرَتْ نَفْسَهَا, meaning She consulted herself, or her mind; as also ↓ استأمرت نفسها. (TA.) [See another ex. voce نَفْسٌ. and see also 8.]4 آمر, inf. n. إِيمَارٌ: see 1, last sentence but one, in two places.

A2: آمْرٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) and ↓ أَمَرَهُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) accord. to some, (M,) aor. ـُ (Msb, K,) inf. n. أَمْرٌ; (Msb;) both signifying the same accord. to AO, (S,) or A 'Obeyd, (TA,) but the latter is of weak authority, (K,) or is not allowable; (M;) and, accord. to El-Hasan's reading of xvii. 17 of the Kur, (see 1,) ↓ أَمِرَهُ also; (M;) (assumed tropical:) He (a man) multiplied it; or made it many, or much, or abundant: (S, Msb:) He (God) multiplied, or made many or much or abundant, his progeny, and his beasts: (M, K:) and آمر مَالَهُ (assumed tropical:) He (God) multiplied, &c., his property, or camels or the like. (S.) A3: See also 1, first sentence, in two places.5 تأمّر He became made, or appointed, commander, governor, lord, prince, or king; (Msb;) he received authority, power, or dominion; عَلَيْهِمْ over them. (S, K.) [See also أَمَرَ.] b2: See also 8.6 تَاَاْمَرَ see 8, in three places.8 ائتمر [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَمَرَ] He obeyed, or conformed to, a command; (S, * M, Mgh, K; *) he heard and obeyed. (Msb.) You say, ائتمر بِخَيْرٍ, meaning He was as though his mind commanded him to do good and he obeyed the command. (M.) And [you use it transitively, saying,] ائتمر الأَمْرَ He obeyed, or conformed to, the command. (S.) And لَا يَأْتَمِرُ رُشْدًا He will not do right of his own accord. (A.) Imra el-Keys says, (S,) or En-Nemir Ibn-Towlab, (T,) وَيَعْدُو عَلَى المَرْءِ مَا يَأْتَمِرْ [And that which man obeys wrongs him, or injures him]; meaning, that which his own soul commands him to do, and which he judges to be right, but in which often is found his destruction: (S:) or, accord. to KT, that evil which man purposes to do: (T:) or that which man does without consideration, and without looking to its result. (A 'Obeyd, T.) [See what follows.] b2: He undertook a thing without consulting; (KT, T;) as though his soul, or mind, ordered him to do it and he obeyed it: (TA:) he followed his own opinion only. (Mgh.) One says, أَمَرْتُهُ فأْتَمَرَ وَأَبَى

أَنْ يَأْتَمِرَ, (A, Mgh,) meaning I commanded him, but he followed his own opinion only, and refused to obey. (Mgh.) b3: He formed an opinion, and consulted his own mind, and determined upon it. (Sh, T.) And ائتمر رَأْيَهُ He consulted his own mind, or judgment, respecting what was right for him to do. (Sh, T.) b4: ائتمروا, (A, Msb,) inf. n. ائْتِمَارٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ تآمروا, (A,) inf. n. تَآمُرٌ, of the measure تَفَاعُلٌ; (S;) and ↓ تأمّروا, (TA,) inf. n. تَأَمُّرٌ; (K;) They consulted together: (S, * A, Msb, K: *) or ائتمروا and ↓ تآمروا signify they commanded, ordered, bade, or enjoined, one another; like as one says, اقتتلوا and تقاتلوا, and اختصموا and تخاصموا: (T:) or ائتمروا عَلَى الأَمْرِ and عَلَيْهِ ↓ تآمروا, they determined, or settled, their opinions respecting the affair, or case: (M:) and ائتمروا بِهِ, (S, Msb,) inf. n. as above, (K,) signifies they purposed it, (S, Msb, K, *) namely, a thing, (Msb, K,) and consulted one another respecting it. (S.) It is said in the Kur [lxv. 6], وَأْتَمِرُوا بَيْنَكُمْ بِمَعْرُوفٍ And command ye, or enjoin ye, one another to do good: [such is app. the meaning,] but God best knoweth: (T:) or, accord. to KT, purpose ye among yourselves to do good. (TA.) And in the same [xxviii. 19], إِنَّ الْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلوُكَ, meaning Verily the chiefs command one another respecting thee, to slay thee: (Zj, T:) or consult together against thee, to slay thee: (AO, T:) or purpose against thee, to slay thee: (KT, T:) but the last but one of these explanations is better than the last. (T.) b5: See also 3. b6: Accord. to El-Bushtee, ائتمرهُ also signifies He gave him permission: but this has not been heard from an Arab. (Az, TA.) 10 إِسْتَاْمَرَ see 3, in two places.

أَمْرٌ A command; an order; a bidding; an injunction; a decree; an ordinance; a prescript: (S, * Msb, * TA, &c.:) pl. أَوَامِرُ: (S, Msb, &c.:) so accord. to common usage; and some writers of authority justify and explain it by saying that أَمْرٌ is [originally] مَأْمُوُرٌ بِهِ; that it is then changed to the measure فَاعِلٌ; [i. e., to آمِرٌ;] like أَمْرٌ عَارِفٌ, which is originally مَعْرُوفٌ; and عِيشَةٌ راضِيَةٌ, originally مَرْضِيَّةٌ; &c.; [and then, to أَمْرٌ;] and that فَاعِلٌ becomes in the pl. فَوَاعِلُ; so that أَوَامَرُ is the pl. of مَإْمُورٌ: others say that it has this form of pl. to distinguish it from أَمْرٌ in the sense of حَالٌ [&c.], in which sense it has for its pl. أُمُورٌ. (Msb, TA.) [But I think that أَوَامِرُ may be properly and originally pl. of آمِرَةٌ, for آيَةٌ آمِرَةٌ, or the like. MF says that, accord. to the T and M, the pl. of أَمْرٌ in the sense explained in the beginning of this paragraph is أُمُورٌ: but he seems to have founded his assertion upon corrupted copies of those works; for in the M, I find nothing on this point; and in the T, not, as he says, الأَمْرُضِدُّ النَّهْىَ وَاحِدُ الأُمُور, but قَالَ اللَّيْثُ الأَمْرُ مَعْرُوفٌ نَقِيضُ النَّهْىِ وَاحِدُ الأُمُورِ, evidently meaning that أَمْرٌ signifies the contr. of نَهْىٌ, and is also, in another sense, the sing. of أُمُورٌ.] [Hence,] أُولُو الأَمْرِ Those who hold command or rule, and the learned men. (M, K. [See Kur iv. 62.]) and أَمْرُاللّٰهِ The threatened punishment of God: so in the Kur x. 25, and xi. 42, and xvi.1; in which last place occur the words, أَتَي أَمْرُ اللّٰهِ فَلَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوهُ, meaning The threatened punishment ordained of God hath, as it were, come: so near is it, that it is as though it had already come: therefore desire not ye to hasten it. (Zj, M, TA.) And The purpose of God. (Bd and Jel in lxv. 3; &c.) and الأَمْرُ قَرِيبٌ The resurrection, or the time thereof, is near. (Mgh, from a trad.) And مَا فَعَلْتُهُ عَنْ

أَمْرِى, in the Kur xviii. 81, I did it not of my own judgment: (Bd:) or, of my own choice. (Jel.) [Hence also الأَمْرُ, in grammar, signifies The imperative form of a verb.] b2: Also A thing; an affair; a business; a matter; a concern: a state, of a person or thing, or of persons or things or affairs or circumstances; a condition; a case: an accident; an event: an action: syn. شَأْنٌ: (M, F, TA:) and حَالٌ, (Msb, TA,) and حَالَةٌ: (Msb:) and حَادِثَةٌ: (K:) and فِعْلٌ: (MF, TA:) and a thing that is said; a saying: ( TA voce أُولُو, at the end of art. ال:) pl. أُمُورٌ; (S, M, K, &c.;) its only pl. in the senses here explained. (TA.) You say, أَمْرُ فُلَانٍ مُسْتَقِيمٌ [The affair, or the like, of such a one is in a right state]: and امُورُهُ مُسْتَقِيمَةٌ [His affairs are in a right state]. (S, A.) And شَتَّتَ أَمْرَهُ He dissipated, disorganized, disordered, unsettled, or broke up, his state of things, or affairs. (As, TA in art. شعب.) [امر seems to be here used, as in many other instances, rather in the sense of the pl. than in that of the sing.] b3: أَمْرٌ كُلِّىٌّ [A universal, or general, prescript, rule, or canon]. (Msb voce قَاعِدَةٌ, KT voce قَانُونٌ, &c.) إِمْرٌ a subst. from أَمِرَالِأَمْرُ in the sense of اِشْتَدَّ; (S;) or a subst. from أَمِرَ as signifying كَثُرَ and تَمَّ; (M;) (assumed tropical:) [A severe, a distressful, a grievous, or an afflictive, thing: or] a terrible, and foul, or very foul, thing: or a wonderful thing. (TA,) Hence, [used as an epithet, like أَمِرٌ, q. v.,] in the Kur [xviii. 70], لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْئًا إِمْرًا (assumed tropical:) Verily thou hast done a severe, a distressful, a grievous, or an afflictive, thing: (S:) or a terrible, and foul, or very foul, thing: (TA:) or a wonderful thing: (S:) or an abominable, a foul, or an evil, and a wonderful, thing: (Ks, M, K: *) or a terrible and an abominable thing; signifying more than نَكْرًا, [which occurs after, in verse 73,] inasmuch as the [presumed] drowning of the persons in the ship was more abominable than the slaying of one person: (Zj, T:) or a crafty, and an abominable, or a foul, or an evil, and a wonderful, thing; and derived from أَمِرَ القَوْمُ as meaning كَثُرُوا. (Ks.) أَمَرٌ a coll. gen. n. of which أَمَرَةٌ (q. v.) is the n. un.

A2: See also تَأْمُورٌ.

أَمِرٌ: see إِمَّرٌ.

A2: (assumed tropical:) Multiplied; or become many, or much, or abundant. (M, K.) [See أَمِرَ.] Yousay زَرْعٌ أَمِرٌ (assumed tropical:) Abundant seed-produce. (Lh, M.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A man whose beasts have multiplied, or become many or abundant. (M.) (assumed tropical:) A man blessed, or prospered, (Ibn-Buzurj, M, K, *) in his property: (M:) fem. with ة. (Ibn-Buzurj.) and with ة, (assumed tropical:) A woman blessed to her husband [ by her being prolific]: from the signification of كَثْرَةٌ. (M.) A3: (assumed tropical:) Severe; distressful; afflictive. (TA.) [See also إِمْرٌ.]

أَمْرَةٌ A single command, order, bidding, or injunction: as in the saying, لَكَ عَلَىَّ أَمْرَةٌ مُطَاعَةٌ Thou hast authority to give me one command, order, bidding, or injunction, which shall be obeyed by me. (S, M, * A, Msb, K.) You should not say, [in this sense,] إِمْرَةٌ, with kesr. (T, S.) A2: See also إِمْرَةٌ.

إِمْرَةٌ a subst. from أَمَرَ [q. v.]; Possession of command; the office, and authority, of a commander, governor, lord, prince, or king; (M, * Msb, K;) as also ↓ إِمَارَةٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ أَمَارَةٌ; (L, K;) but this last is by some disallowed, and is said in the Fs and its Expositions to be unknown. (MF.) It is said in a trad., لَعَلَّكَ سآءَ تْكَ إِمْرَةُ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ Perhaps thy paternal uncle's son's possession of command hath displeased thee. (TA.) b2: [And hence, (assumed tropical:) Increase, or abundance, or the like; as also other forms mentioned in what follows.] You say, فِى وَجْهِ مَالِكَ تَعْرِفُ إِمْرَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) In the face of thy property, [meaning such as consists in camels or the like, and also money,] thou knowest its increase and abundance, and its expense: (S:) or ↓ إِمَّرَتَهُ, and ↓ إِمّرَتَهُ, which latter is a dial. var. of weak authority, and ↓ أَمَّرَتَهُ, i. e., its increase and abundance: (M:) or ↓ إِمَّرَتَهُ as meaning its prosperous state; as also ↓ أَمَارَتَهُ, and ↓ أَمْرَتَهُ: (Ibn-Buzurj:) accord. to AHeyth, who reads ↓ تُعْرَفُ إِمَّرَتُهُ, the meaning is, its decrease; but the correct meaning is, its increase, as Fr explains it. (T, TA.) It is said respecting anything of which one knows what is good in it at first sight: (Lh, M:) and means, on a thing's presenting itself, thou knowest its goodness. (T.) One says also, ↓ مأَحْسَنَ أَمَارَتَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) How good is their multiplying, and the multiplying of their offspring and of their number! (M.) And ↓ لَا جَعَلَ اللّٰهُ فِيهِ إِمَّرَةً (assumed tropical:) May God not make an increase to be therein. (T.) أَمَرَةٌ Stones: (K:) [or a heap of stones:] or it is the n. un. of أَمَرٌ, which signifies stones: (M:) or the latter signifies stones set up in order that one may be directed thereby to the right way: (Ham p. 409:) and the former also signifies a hill; (M, K;) and أَمَرٌ is [used as] its pl.: (M:) and a sign, or mark, by which anything is known; (M, K;) as also ↓ أَمَارٌ and ↓ أَمَارَةٌ; (As, S;) and أَمَرٌ is [used as] its pl. in this sense also: (M:) or a sign, or mark, set up to show the way; (AA, Fr;) as also ↓ أَمَارٌ and ↓ أَمَارَهٌ: (K:) or a small sign, or mark, of stones, to show the way, in a waterless desert; (S;) as also ↓ أَمَارٌ [and ↓ أَمَارَةٌ]; and any sign, or mark, that is prepared: (TA:) or a structure like a مَنَارَة [here app. meaning a tower of a mosque], upon a mountain, wide like a house or tent, and larger, of the height of forty times the stature of a man, made in the time of 'Ád and Irem; in some instances its foundation being like a house, though it consists only of stones piled up, one upon another, cemented together with mud, appearing as though it were of natural formation: (ISh, T:) the pl. (in all the senses above, K) [or rather the coll. gen. n.,] is أَمَرٌ. (S, K.) A2: See also إِمْرَةٌ.

أَمَارٌ and ↓ أَمَارَةٌ A sign, mark, or token. (As, S Mgh.) See also each voce أَمَرَةٌ, in three places. You say, هِى أَمَارَةُ مَا بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ It is a sign, or token, of what is between me and thee. (T, * TA.) And a poet says, إِذَا طَلَعَتْ شَمْسُ النَّهَارِ فَإِنَّهَا

أَمَارَةُ تَسْلِيمِى عَلَيْكِ فَسَلِّمِى

[When the sun of day rises, it is a sign of my saluting thee, therefore do thou salute]. (TA.) b2: Also A time: (As, S, K:) so IAar explains the latter word, not particularizing the time as definite or otherwise: (M:) or a definite time: (TA:) or a time, or place, of promise or appointment; an appointed time or place; syn. مَوْعِدٌ: (M, Mgh, K:) or, accord. to some, the former word is pl. [or rather col. gen. n.] of the latter. (TA.) El-'Ajjáj says, إِذْ رَدَّهَا بِكَيْدِهِ فَارْتَدَّتِ

إِلَي أَمَارٍ وَأَمَارِ مُدَّتِى

When He (meaning God) brings it, ( namely my soul,) by his skilful ordering, and his power, [and it is thus brought, or it thus comes, to a set time, and] to the time of the end of my appointed period: امارمدّتى being as above; the former word being prefixed to the latter, governing it in the gen. case. (IB. [In the S we find وَأَمَارٌ مُدَّتِى.]) أَمُورٌ [an intensive epithet from أَمَرَهُ]. You say, إِنَّهُ لَأَمُورٌ بِالْمَعْروفِ وَنَهُوٌّ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ Verily he is one who strongly commands, or enjoins, good conduct, and who strongly forbids evil conduct. (S in art. نهى, and A. *) أَمِيرٌ One having, holding, or possessing, command; (S;) a commander; a governor; a lord; (M, * Msb;) a prince, or king: (M, K:) fem. with ة: (S, K:) pl. إُمَرَآءُ. (M, Msb, K.) b2: A leader of the blind. (M, K.) So in the saying of El-Aashà: إِذَاكَانَ هَادِى الفَتَى فِى البِلَا دِصَدْرَ القَنَاةِ أَطَاعَ الأَمِيرَا [When the young man's guide in the countries, or lands, or the like, is the top of the cane, he obeys the leader of the blind]. (M.) b3: A woman's husband. (A.) b4: A neighbour. (K.) b5: A person with whom one consults: (A, K:) any one of whom one begs counsel, or advice, in a case of fear. (TA.) You say, هُوَ أَمِيرِى He is the person with whom I consult. (A.) أَمَارَةٌ: see إِمْرَةٌ, in three places: b2: and see also أَمَرَةٌ, in three places; and أَمَارٌ.

إِمَارَةِ: see إِمْرَةٌ. b2: الإِمَارَةُ is also used for صَاحِبُ الإمَارَةِ, i. e. الأَمِيرُ. (Mgh.) أَمَّرٌ: see the next paragraph, in two places.

إِمَّرٌ A man who consults every one respecting his case; as also ↓ أَمِرٌ and ↓ أَمَّارَةٌ: (M:) or a man resembling [in stupidity] a kid: [see the latter part of this paragraph:] (Th, M:) or, as also ↓ إِمَّرَةٌ (S, M, K, &c.) and ↓ أَمَّرٌ and ↓ أَمَّرَةٌ, (K,) a man having weak judgment, (S, K,) stupid, (T, M,) or weak, without judgment, (M, L,) or without intellect, or intelligence, (T,) who obeys the command of every one, (T, S,) who complies with what every one desires to do in all his affairs; (K;) a stupid man, of weak judgment, who says to another, Command me to execute thine affair. (IAth.) It is said in a trad., مَنْ يُطِعْ إِمَّرَةً لَا يَأْكُلْ ثَمَرَةً [He who obeys a stupid man, &c., shall not eat fruit: or the meaning is] he who obeys a stupid woman shall be debarred from good. (IAth.) ↓ إِمَّرَةٌ is applied to a woman and to a man: when it is applied to a man, the ة is added to give intensiveness to the signification. (ISh.) The following saying, إِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشِّعْرَى

وَلَا إِمَّرًا, ↓ سَفَرًا فَلَا تُرْسِلْ فِيهَا إِمَّرَةً, in rhyming prose, means [When Sirius rises in the clear twilight,] send not thou among them (meaning the camels) a man without intelligence [in a great degree, nor one who is so in a less degree; or a woman without intelligence, nor a man without intelligence;] to manage them. (Sh.) b2: Also, (M, K,) and ↓ إِمَّرَةٌ and ↓ أَمَّرَ and ↓ أُمَّرٌ, (K,) A young lamb: (M, K:) or the first (إِمَرٌ) and the second, a young kid: (M, TA:) or the former of these two, a male lamb: (M, TA:) or a young male lamb: (S:) and the latter of them, a female lamb: (M, TA:) or a young female lamb. (S, M.) One says, ↓ مَا لَهُ إِمَّرٌ وَلَا إِمَّرَةٌ, meaning He has not a male lamb nor a female lamb: (M, TA:) or he has not anything. (T, S, M.) أَمَّرَةٌ: see إِمَّرٌ, in two places.

إِمَّرَةٌ: see إِمَّرٌ, in six places: A2: and see إِمْرَةٌ, in four places.

إِمّرَةٌ: see إِمْرَةٌ.

أَمَّارٌ [Wont to command]. [Hence,] النَّفْسُ الأَمَّارَةُ [The soul that is wont to command]; (A;) the soul that inclines to the nature of the body, that commands to the indulgence of pleasures and sensual appetites, drawing the heart downwards, so that it is the abode of evils, and the source of culpable dispositions. (KT.) [See نَفْسٌ.]

أَمَّارَةٌ fem. of أَمَّارٌ [q. v.]. b2: See also إِمَّرٌ.

آمِرٌ [act. part. n. of أَمَرَهُ.] b2: آمِرٌ and ↓ مُؤْتَمِرٌ Two days, (S,) the last, (K,) the former being the sixth, and the latter the seventh, (M,) of the days called أَيَّامُ الَجُوزِ: (S, M, K: [but see عَجُوزٌ:]) as though the former commanded men to be cautious, and the latter consulted them as to whether they should set forth on a journey or stay at home: (S:) accord. to Az, the latter is applied as an epithet to the day as meaning يُؤْتَمَرُفِيهِ. (TA.) تَأْمُرِىُّ: see تَأْمُورٌ, in two places.

تُؤْمُرِىٌّ, and without ء: see تَأْمُورٌ, in six places.

تَأْمُورٌ and ↓ تَأْمُورَةٌ are properly mentioned in this art.; the measure of the former being تَفْعُولٌ; (K;) and that of the latter, تَفْعْلولَةٌ: (TA:) not as J has imagined; [who writes them without ء, and mentions them in art. تمر;] (K;) their measures accord. to him being فَاعُولٌ and فَاعُولَةٌ. (TA.) [But in all the senses here explained, they appear to be with and without ء.] b2: The former signifies The soul: (S in art. تمر, where it is written without ء; and M, A, K:) because it is that which is wont to command. (A.) One says, قَدْ عَلِمَ تَأْمُورُكَ ذلِكَ Thy soul, or self, hath known that. (Az, and T in art. تمر.) b3: The intellect: (M:) as in the saying, عَرَفْتُهُ بِتَأْمُورِي I knew it by my intellect. (M in art. تمر, without ء; and TA.) You say also, هُوَ ابْنُ تَأْمُورِهَا, meaning He is the knowing with respect to it. (TA in art. بني.) b4: The heart, (T in art. تمر without ء, and M, A, K,) itself. (M, TA.) Hence the saying, حَرْفٌ فِى تَأْمُورِى خَيْرٌ مِنْ عَشَرَةٍ فى وِ عَائِكَ [One word in my heart is better than ten in thy receptacle]. (T in art. تمر, and TA.) b5: The pericardium. (M in art. تمر, without ء.) b6: The core, or black or inner part, or clot of blood, (حَبَّة, M, K, or عَلَقَة, TA,) and life, and blood, of the heart: (M, K:) or blood, (As, S, M, in art. تمر, and K,) absolutely: (TA:) and تَأْمُورُ النَّفْسِ signifies the life-blood: (As, S:) or the blood of the body: (S in art. نفس:) and the life of the soul. (M, K.) b7: Also, as being likened to blood, (TA,) (tropical:) Wine; and so ↓ تَأْمُورَةٌ: (M, K:) and b8: (tropical:) A dye: (M, TA:) and b9: (tropical:) Saffron. (As, K.) b10: [Hence also,] (tropical:) Water. (M, K.) You say, مَا فىِ الرَّكِيَّةِ تَامُورٌ, (T, S in art. تمر, and M,) or تَأْمُورٌ, (A,) (tropical:) There is not in the well any water. (T, S, M, A.) A2: The wezeer (وَزِير) of a king: (M, K:) because his command is effectual. (TA.) A3: Any one: as in the saying, مَابِهَا تَأْمُورٌ, (T in art. تمر, A, K,) as also ↓ تُؤْمُورٌ, (T in art. تمر, and K,) each with an augmentative ت, and without ء as well as with it, accord. to Er-Radee and others, (TA,) and ↓ تَأْمُرِىُّ, and ↓ تَأْمُورِىُّ, (M,) and ↓ تُؤْمُرِىُّ, (T in art. تمر, M, TA,) or without ء, (S, M, K, in art. تمر,) and ↓ أَمَرٌ, (M, K,) There is not in it (i. e. in the house, الدار, M, A, TA) any one. (M, A, K, and T and S in art. تمر.) You say also, خَلَآءٌ بِلَادٌ

↓ لَيْسَ فِيهَاتُومُرِىٌّ Vacant regions wherein is not any one. (S in art. تمر.) ↓ تُؤْمُرِىٌّ (M, K) and ↓ تُومُرِىٌّ (S in art. تمر) and ↓ تَأْمُورِىٌّ and ↓ تَأْمُرِيٌّ (M, K) also signify A man, or human being. (S, * M, K.) You say, speaking of a beautiful woman, أَحْسَنَ مِنْهَا ↓ مَا رَأَيْتُ تُومُرِيَّا I have not seen a human being, or creature, more beautiful than she: (S and M in art. تمر:) and مَا رَأَيْتُ

أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ ↓ تُومُرِيَّا [I have not seen a man more beautiful than he]. (T and S in art. تمر.) Accord. to some, they are used only in negative phrases; but accord. to others, they are also used in such as are affirmative. (MF.) b2: Also Anything: as in the saying أَكَلَ الذِّئْبُ الشَّاةَ فَمَا تَرَكَ مِنْهَا تَامُورًا [The wolf ate the sheep, or goat, and left not of it anything]. (T and S in art. تمر.) A4: A child, young one, or fœtus syn. وَلَدٌ. (M, K.) A5: The receptacle (وِعَآء) of the child, young one, or fœtus. (M in art. تمر, without ء; and K.) b2: A وِعَآء [in the ordinary sense; i. e. a bag, or receptacle, for travelling-provisions and for goods or utensils &c.]. (M, K.) Hence the saying, أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِتَأْمُورِكَ Thou art best acquainted with what thou hast with thee; and with thine own mind. (M.) b3: Also, (K,) and ↓ تَأْمُورَةٌ, (M, [in which the former is not given in the following senses,] and K,) or ↓ تَامُورَةٌ, (S in art. تمر,) A ewer, syn. إِبْرِيقٌ, (S, M, K,) for wine: (S:) and, (M, K,) or, as some say, (TA,) a حُقَّة (M, K, TA) in which wine is put. (TA.) b4: Also the first, (M, K,) or ↓ third, (T and S in art. تمر,) The chamber, or cell, (صَوْمَعَة, T and M in art. تمر, without ء, and S and K, and نامُوى, M, K,) of a monk. (M, K.) b5: And hence, (TA,) the first, (K,) and ↓ second, (M, K,) or ↓ third, of these three words, (T and S, in art. تمر,) (tropical:) The covert, or retreat, of a lion. (T, S, M, K.) Whence, ↓ فُلَانٌ أَسَدٌ فِى تَامُورَتِهِ (tropical:) Such a one is a lion in his covert: (T and S in art. تمر:) a saying borrowed from 'Amr Ibn-Maadee-Kerib: (T and S ibid:) or, accord. to some, it means, a lion in the greatness of his courage, and in his heart. (TA.) A6: Also (i. e. the first only) Play, or sport, of girls or of boys. (Th, M in art. تمر without ء, and K.) A7: See also يَأْمُورٌ.

تُؤْمُورٌ A sign, or mark, set up to show the way in a waterless desert; (K, TA;) consisting of stones piled up, one upon another: (TA:) pl. تَآمِيرُ. (K.) [See أَمَرَةٌ.]

A2: See also تَأْمُورٌ.

تَأْمُورَةٌ, and without ء: see تَأْمُورٌ, in eight places. b2: Also The pericardium; the integument (غِلَاف) of the heart. (S in art. تمر: there written without ء.) تَأْمُورِىٌّ: see تَأْمُورٌ, in two places.

مِئْمَرٌ Counsel; advice: as in the saying, فُلَانٌ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ المِئْمَرِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ المِئْبَرِ Such a one is far from counsel, or advice: near to calumny, or slander. (A.) مُؤَمَّرٌ Made, or appointed, commander, governor, lord, prince, or king: (S, M, K: *) made to have authority, power, or dominion: (T, M, K:) in which latter sense it is explained by Khálid, as applied by Ibn-Mukbil to a spear. (T.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A cane, or spear-shaft, having a spearhead affixed to it. (K.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A spear-head (T, TA) sharpened; syn. مُحَدَّدٌ. (T, M, K, TA.) b4: Distinguished, or defined, (مُحَدَّدٌ,) by signs, or marks: (TA:) or, as some say, (TA,) marked with a hot iron; syn. مُوْسُومٌ. (K, TA.) مَأْمُورٌ [pass. part. n. of أَمَرَهُ, q. v.]. b2: It is said in a trad., (S, &c.,) خَيْرُ المَالِ مُهْرَةٌ مَأْمُورَةٌ وَسِكَّةٌ مَأْبُورَةٌ (tropical:) The best of property are a prolific filly [and a row of palm-trees, or perhaps a tall palmtree, fecundated]; (Az, A 'Obeyd, T, S, A, K;) as though the filly were commanded [by God] to be so: (A, in which the epithet مأمورة thus used is said to be tropical:) [or] مأمورة is thus for the sake of conformity to مأبورة, and is originally مُؤْمَرَةٌ, (S, M, * K,) from آمَرَهَا اللّٰهُ: (TA:) or it is a dial. var. of weak authority; (K;) though, accord. to Az, it signifies made to have abundant offspring, from أَمَرَ اللّٰهُ المُهْرَةَ, meaning “God made the filly to have abundant offspring,” a dial. var. of آمَرَهَا, as A 'Obeyd also asserts it to be. (TA.) مَآمِرُ and مَآمِيرُ: see what next follows.

مُؤْتَمِرٌ [Obeying, or conforming to, a command; &c.: see 8. b2: ] One who acts according to his own opinion; (T;) who follows his own opinion only: or who hastes to speak. (M.) A2: See also آمِرٌ. b2: Also, and المُؤْتَمِرُ, [The month which is now commonly called] المُحَرَّمُ: (M, K:) the former appellation (مؤتمر) is that by which the tribe of 'Ád called it: (Ibn-El-Kelbee:) pl. ↓ مَآمِرُ and مَآمِيرُ [both anomalous]. (M, K.) [See شَهْرٌ.]

يَأْمُورٌ; (M, K;) so in all the copies of the K but in the L and other lexicons, ↓ تَأْمُورٌ; (TA;) A certain beast of the sea: or, as some say, a small beast: (M:) and a kind of mountain-goat: (M, K:) or a certain wild beast, (K, TA,) or a beast resembling the mountain-goat, (M,) having a single branching horn in the middle of his head. (M, TA.) [See يَحْمُورٌ, the oryx.]

رنو

1 رَنَا إِلَيْهَا, (Lth, T,) or إِلَيْهِ, (S, M,) and [رَنَاهَا, or] رَنَاهُ, (M, TA,) aor. ـْ (Lth, T, S, Msb,) inf. n. رُنُوٌّ (Lth, T, S, M, Msb, K) and رَنًا, (Lth, T, M, K,) He gazed, i. e., looked continually, (Lth, T, S, M, K,) without any motion of the eyes, (M, K,) at her, (Lth, T,) or at him, or it: (S, M:) or رَنَا إِلَيْهِ signifies [simply] he looked at him, or it; as also رَنَأَ; but the former is said to be the original word. (TA in art. رنأ.) [See also 5.]

b2: رُنُوٌّ also signifies The being cheered, or delighted, and pleased, or being diverted, together with occupation of the heart and eyes, and with predominance of love and desire. (M, K.) Yousay, يَرْنُو إِلَى حَدِيثِهَا [He is cheered, or delighted, &c., with her discourse]. (M, K.) And رَنَوْتُ

إِلَى حَدِيثِهِ I was cheered, or delighted, and pleased, or was diverted, with his discourse. (T.) And رَنَا لِكَذَا and لَهُ ↓ استرنى He was cheered, &c., as above, by reason of such a thing: and so أَرَنَّ له. (T in art. رن.) And رَنَا, (K,) aor. as above, (TA,) is syn. with طَرِبَ [app. as meaning He was, or became, affected with a lively emotion of joy, moved with delight, mirthful, joyful, glad, or delighted]. (K.) [See رُنَآءٌ, below, which is perhaps an inf. n.]2 رنّاهُ: see 4. b2: Also, (TA,) inf. n. تَرْنِيَةٌ, (K,) i. q. طَرَّبَهُ [app. as meaning He, or it, affected him with a lively emotion of joy; moved him with delight; rendered him mirthful, joyful, glad, or delighted: see also 4]. (K, * TA.) A2: تَرْنِيَةٌ signifies also The act of singing. (K.) And i. q. حَنِينٌ [app. as meaning The uttering a plaintive sound, or plaintive sounds]. (K.) A woman's crying out loudly, or vehemently; and uttering a plaintive, or mournful, voice or sound or cry, in singing or in weeping; like تَرْنِينٌ. (M in art. رن.) 3 راناهُ, (K,) inf. n. مُرَانَاةٌ, (TA,) He treated him with gentleness, or blandishment; soothed, coaxed, wheedled, or cajoled, him: (K, TA:) he treated him in an easy and a gentle manner. (TA.) 4 ارناهُ; (S, M, Msb, K;) and ↓ رنّاهُ, (M, K,) inf. n. of the latter تَرْنِيَةٌ; (TA;) It (beauty, K, or beauty of aspect, M, or the beauty of a thing that he saw, S, Msb) made him to gaze, i. e., to look continually, (S, M, K,) without any motion of the eyes: (M, K:) or pleased him: (Msb:) or pleased him, and made him to gaze, &c. (TA.) And the former, It (a thing) cheered, or delighted, him, and pleased him; or diverted him. (T in art. رن.) [See also 2.] b2: ارناهُ إِلَى الطَّاعَةِ He (God, T) reduced him to obedience, so that he became still, and continued obedient: (T, TA:) from a trad. (T.) 5 ترنّى He continued looking at the thing that he loved. (IAar, T, K.) [See also 1.]6 تَرَانَوْتُ عَنْهُ I feigned myself unmindful of, or inadvertent to, him, or it. (A, TA.) [The primary meaning seems to be, I feigned myself looking steadily away from him, or it.]10 إِسْتَرْنَوَ see 1.

رَنًا A thing at which one looks (S, M, K) continually, [or gazes,] without any motion of the eyes, by reason of its beauty: (M, K:) an inf. n. used as a subst. properly so termed. (M.) رُنَةٌ, or ارُّنَةُ, a name of The month Jumádà-'l-Ákhireh: see الرُّنَّى in art. رن, and رُونَةٌ in art. رون.

رَنْوَةٌ A piece of flesh or flesh-meat: pl. رَنَوَاتٌ, (IAar, T, K, TA,) like as شَهَوَاتٌ is pl. of شَهْوَةٌ. (TA. [In the CK, the pl. is erroneously written رَنْواتٌ.]) رَنَآءٌ, with fet-h, (T,) like سَحَابٌ, (TA,) i. q. جَمَالٌ [Beauty, goodliness, comeliness, &c.]: (T, K:) so says Az. (T.) رُنَآءٌ, with damm, i. q. طَرَبٌ [app. as meaning A lively emotion of joy; mirth, joy, gladness, or delight]. (K. [See also رُنَّاءٌ, in art. رن: and see the last signification of 1 in the present art.]) b2: Also A sound, voice, or cry: (El-Umawee, T, K:) [like رَنَّةٌ as expl. in the S and K:) pl. أَرْنِيَةٌ. (T.) رَنُوٌّ in the following phrase is like عَدُوٌّ: (K:) you say, هُوَ رَنُوُّ فُلَانَةَ He is one who gazes, or looks continually, at such a woman or girl: (Lth, T, S: [see also رَنَّآءٌ:]) or he is one who is cheered, or delighted, or diverted, and pleased, with the discourse of such a woman or girl. (M, K. *) And فُلَانٌ رَنُوُّ الأَمَانِى Such a one is a person who expects things for which he wishes. (Lth, T, M. *) رَجُلٌ رَنَّآءٌ A man who gazes, or looks continually, at women. (S. [See also رَنُوٌّ.]) كَأْسٌ رَنَوْنَاةٌ [A cup of wine] lasting, or continuing, syn. دَائِمَةٌ, (IAar, T, S, M, Msb, K,) to the drinkers; (عَلَى الشَّرْبِ; IAar, T, K; الشرب being with fet-h to the ش, pl. [or rather quasipl. n.] of شَارِبٌ; TA; [in the CK, and in one copy of the T, erroneously, عليى الشُّرْبِ;]) still, or motionless; syn. سَاكِنَةٌ: (S, Msb:) [were it not for this addition, the meaning might be thought to be, a cup of wine circling to the drinkers:] or pleasing: (Msb:) pl. رَنَوْنَيَاتٌ: (IAar, T, K:) the word رنوناة is of the measure فَعَلْعَلَةٌ; (S;) [originally رَنَوْنَوَةٌ;] and it occurs in the poetry of Ibn-Ahmar, (T, S, M,) but (as some say, S) has not been heard except in that poetry. (S, M.) تُرْنَى A fornicatress, or an adulteress: (M, K:) [accord. to ISd,] of the measure تُفْعَلُ, from الرُّنُوُّ; i. e., that is gazed at, or looked at continually; because she is made an object of suspicion, or evil opinion: (M:) [whence,] اِبْنُ تُرْنَى

One that is base-born. (S.) [See more in art. ترن.]

مُرَنٍّ A singer. (AA, K.)

سفر: سَفرْ: يستعمل فعلاً لازماً بمعنى وضح وانكشف (فليشر على المقري 2: 11، عباد 1: 24 واقرأ فيه سَفَر كما قلت في 3: 7 منه) 2: 174، المقري 1: 61، ألف ليلة 1: 489).
سَفَر: في العبارة التي نقلها فريتاج في رقم 7 مأخوذة من طرائف دي ساسي (1: 158).
سَفَر: كان سفيره ومفاوضه ورسوله ووسيطه يقال: سفر عنه إلى ملوك. مصر (مملوك 1: 193). سفر لي الوزير في دار الكاتب المؤخر أي كان الوزير الوسيط بيني وبين السلطان ليعطيني دار الكاتب المعزول (المقري 1: 645).
سفر: سافر، وبخاصة سافر في البحر، أبحر، ركب البحر (معجم الادريسي).
سَفَّر: ارسل، بعث (مملوك 1، 1: 195) سَفَّر (في المغرب) جلَّد الكتاب وأصحفه (الكالا، بوشر، (بربرية)، همبرت ص88 (بربرية)، رولاند) وفي المقري (3: 9): إلى إتقان بعض الصنائع كتسفير الكُتُب وتنزيل المذهب وغيرهما (وهذا هو صواب الكلمة وفقاً لما جاء في مخطوطتنا، وليس كتسفير كما جاء في المطبوع)، وفي كتاب الخطيب (مخطوطة باريس ص1 و): يجيد تسفير الكُتُب. انظر: سَفّار تسفير ومُسّفر.
تسفّر: أرسل سفيراً في مهمة (مملوك 1، 1: 196، فوك).
سِفْر وجمعها أسفار: ذكرت في معجم فوك في مادة لاتينية معناها زاد السفر، ويظهر أن هذه الكلمة تدل على ما تدل عليه كلمة سفرة وهو طعام يصنع للمسافر. ومع ذلك فإن فوك لم يذكرها في المادة اللاتينية التي تعني زاد المسافر.
سِفْر: تصحيف صِفْر (الرقم الذي يدل على الرتبة الخالية من الكمية وعلامته نقطة) (بوشر).
سَفَر: غزاة، حملة عسكرية أثناء السنة أو الأشهر (بوشر).
سفر الامحال أو سَفَر وحدها: انظر في مادة محل.
سَفَر: وليمة في الريف. ففي الجويري (ص84 ق) في الساعات وفي الأفراح وفي الأسفار وغيرها. سَفَر (عند الدروز): اختفاء الشخص المقدس للحاكم والإمام (دي ساسي طرائف 2 رقم 98).
سَفْرَة: رحلة، وقصة الرحلة (بوشر).
سَفْرَة: ركوب البحر (الكالا).
سَفْرَة مُلْوك: ادونيس، شاب وسيم (براكس مجلة الشرق والجزائر 8: 282).
سُفْرَة: سفرة الشطرنج: رقعة الشطرنج (فوك: عبد الواحد ص83) وكذلك سُفْرة وحدها (الكالا)، عبد الواحد ص83، 84).
سُفْرة: حامية، جماعة من الجند لحراسة موقع ومقر الحامية (كاريت قبيل 2: 388) وهي سَفَر بمعنى حملة عسكرية. ونجد عند الترك: سَفَرْجِي وسَفَرْلُو بمعنى جندي.
سَفَرِيَ. جفن سفري وسفينة سفرية: سفينة تقل (معجم الادريسي، أماري ديب ملحق ص2) سَفَري: سفر، رحلة، وسفري الهواء: راكب منطاد، ملاح جوي. (بوشر).
رُمَّان سفري: انظر في مادة الرمان.
سَفَار: نبات اسمه العلمي: arthratherum Floccosum. ( كولومب ص88) وكذلك aristida ( غداس ص330).
سفارة: مقام السفير (بوشر، محيط المحيط) سفيرية: أنظر اسفيريا في حرف الألف سَفَّار وجمعه سَفّارة: كثير الأسفار والذي يقضي أكثر حياته في الاسفار، وبخاصة الفقراء والدراويش الذين يحيون حياة غير مستقرة (فليشر على المقري 1: 591، بريشت ص203).
سافِرّة: سبارجان (نبات) وعدس مّر، سفرغانيون (بوشر). سافور: (تعريب العبرية صفور): بوق أو قرن (سعدية النشيد 150).
تَسْفِير وجمعها تسافير: الرسالة التي يكلف بها السفير (مملوك 1، 1961).
تسفير: هبة، منحة تمنح لمن يكلف بحمل رسالة من هذا النوع (مملوك 1، 1961) تسفير (في المغرب): تجليد الكتب (الكالا، المقري 1: 302).
مُسَفّرِ (في المغرب: مجلد الكتب (المقري 1: 599) وفي المستعيني: غبار الرحا: ومنه يُعْمَل غَرَا المسفرين لتلصق به الكُتُب (ابن بطوطة).
المسافرون: بَّحارة السفينة أو نوتيتها. (تاريخ البربر 2: 421).
مراكب مسافرة: سفن تجارية، ضد مراكب مقاتلة (أماري ص334).

سفر

1 سَفَرَ, (S, M, A, K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. سَفْرٌ, (M, K,) He swept a house, or chamber, (S, M, A, K,) &c. (M.) b2: And He, or it, [swept away; or took away, or carried off, in every direction: and] dispersed: (M, K:) and removed, took off, or stripped off, a thing from a thing which it covered. (M * A, * K.) You say, سَفَرَتِ الرِّيحُ التُّرَابَ, and الوَرَقَ, (assumed tropical:) The wind swept away the dust, and the leaves: or too them away, or carried them off, in every direction. (M.) and سَفَرَت ِ الرِّيحُ الغَيْمَ (assumed tropical:) The wind dispersed the clouds: (M, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) removed the clouds from the face of the sky. (A, * TA.) And you say of a woman, سَفَرَتْ, (S, M, A, Mgh, K,) aor. ـِ (M,) inf. n. سُفُورٌ, (M, Mgh,) meaning She removed her veil (M, A, Mgh) عَنْ وَجْهِهَا from her face: (A, M:) and [elliptically] (M) she uncovered her face: (S, M, K:) [for] سَفَرْتُ الشَّىْءَ, [being for سفرت عَنِ الشَّىْءِ,] aor. ـِ inf. n. سَفْرٌ [or سُفُورٌ?], signifies I uncovered the thing; made it apparent, or manifest: (Mgh:) [but accord. to Mtr,] the phrase تَسْفِرُ وَجْهَهَا [meaning she uncovers her face] is of weak authority. (Mgh.) b3: Hence, i. e. from سَفَرَتْ meaning “ she uncovered her face,” (M,) سَفَرْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, (S, M, Mgh, * Msb, K,) aor. ـِ (S, Msb, K) and سَفُرَ, (K,) inf. n. سِفَارَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and سَفَارَةٌ and سَفْرٌ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) I made peace, effected a reconciliation, or adjusted a difference, between the people; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) because he who does so exposes what is in the mind of each party: (TA:) or I exposed what was in the mind of this and the mind of this in order to make peace, &c., between the people. (M.) [See also سِفَارَةٌ, below.] b4: [and likewise, perhaps, from سَفَرَتْ meaning “ she uncovered her face,”] سَفَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. سَفْرٌ, (assumed tropical:) The sun rose. (Msb.) b5: See also 4, in two places. b6: سَفَرَ, (S,) Msb,) aor. ـِ (S,) or ـُ (Msb,) inf. n. سُفُورٌ, (S,) or سَفَرٌ, (Msb,) [the former of which inf. ns. perhaps indicates a radical relation to سَفَرَتْ said of a woman, and of the sun, expl. above,] He went forth to journey: (S, Msb:) this verb, however, in this sense, [which appears to have been unknown, or not acknowledged, by the authors of the M and K, (see مُسَافِرٌ,)] is obsolete; but its inf. n. سَفَرٌ is used as a simple subst. (Msb. [See 3, the verb commonly used in this sense.]) b7: [Hence, app,] سَفَرَ شَحْمُهُ (tropical:) His fat went away. (A, TA.) b8: and سَفَرَتِ الحَرْبُ (tropical:) The war declined; syn. وَلَّت. (A, K.) A2: سَفَرَ الكِتَابَ, (S, A,) aor. ـِ inf. n. سَفْرٌ, (S,) He wrote the book, or writing. (A. [See سِفْرٌ.]) A3: سَفَرَ البَعِيرَ, (S, K,) or سَفَرَهُ بِالسِّفَارِ, (M,) aor. ـِ (M, K,) inf. n. سَفْرٌ; (M;) and ↓ اسفرهُ, (Az, M, K,) inf. n. إِسْفَارٌ; (TA;) and ↓ سفّرهُ, (Kr, M, K,) inf. n. تَسْفِيرٌ; (TA;) He put the سِفَار [q. v.] upon the nose of the camel. (S, M, K.) A4: سَفَرَ اِلغَنَمَ He sold the best of the sheep, or goats. (K.) 2 سفّرهُ, inf. n. تَسْفِيرٌ, He sent him to go a journey. (K, TA.) b2: سفّر الإِبِلَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He pastured the camels between sunset and nightfall, and in the سَفِير, (K, TA,) i. e., the whiteness [of the sky] before night: (TA:) or he fed the camels with سَفِير [q. v.]: (so in the O:) and سفّر فَرَسَهُ, inf. n. تَسْفِيرُ, He fed his horse with سَفِير: or he kept him continually going, and trained him, in order that he might become strong to journey. (JM.) b3: سفّر النَّارَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He made the fire to flame, or blaze; (K, TA;) kindled it; or made it to burn, burn up, or burn brightly or fiercely, (TA.) A2: See also 1, last sentence but one.3 سَاْفَرَ [سافر is trans. and intrans.] You say, الرِّيَاحُ يُسَافِرُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا [The winds vie, one with another, in sweeping the ground, effacing one another's traces]: for the east wind removes and disperses the longitudinal traces made by the west wind, and the south wind makes traces across them. (S, * K, * TA.) A2: And سافر, inf. n. مُسَافَرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and سِفَارٌ, (S, K,) He journeyed, or went, (K,) or went forth to journey, (S, Msb,) إِلَى بَلَدِ كَذَا [to such a country, or town]. (S, K.) And سَافَرَ سَفَرًا بَعِيدًا [He journeyed, or went, a far journey]. (A, Mgh.) [See also 1.] b2: [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He died. (K.) b3: and سَافَرَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَنْ كَبِدِ السَّمَآءِ (tropical:) [The sun declined from the middle of the sky]. (A.) b4: and سَافَرَتْ عَنْهُ الحُمَّى (tropical:) [The fever departed from him]. (A.) 4 اسفرت الشَّجَرَةُ The tree had its leaves blown off [and swept away] by the wind; (K, * TA;) they having become changed in colour, and white. (TA.) b2: And اسفر, (inf. n. إِسْفَارٌ, Mgh, Msb,) It (the dawn, or daybreak,) shone, (T, S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) so that there was no doubt respecting it; (T, TA;) as also ↓ سَفَرَ, (M, K,) aor. ـِ (K,) inf. n. سَفْرٌ: (TA:) it has a special relation to colour; meaning it shone in colour. (B, TA.) b3: It (the moon) caused a shining [in the sky] before its rising. (M.) b4: (tropical:) It (a man's face) shone (S, M) [with happiness (see مُسْفِرٌ)]; or with beauty; for you say, اسفر حُسْنًا; (S;) as also ↓ سَفَرَ: (M:) or became overspread with beauty. (Msb.) b5: And He entered upon the time of dawn, or daybreak; (M;) or the time when the dawn became white. (K.) The Prophet said, أَسْفِرُوا بِالفَجْرِ, meaning Perform ye the prayer of daybreak when ye enter upon the time in which the dawn shines, or becomes white: (S, * Msb:) or when the dawn has become manifest, so that there is no doubt respecting it, every one knowing it to be the true dawn when he sees it; accord. to EshSháfi'ee and Ibn-Hambal and others: (T, TA:) or prolong ye the prayer of daybreak until ye enter upon the time when the dawn becomes white: (S, TA:) some say that it relates especially to nights in [the end of] which the moon shines, because in such the commencement of daybreak is not manifest: (TA:) or أَسْفَرَ بِالصَّلَاةِ means he performed prayer in the shining of the dawn: and the ب is for the purpose of making the verb transitive. (Mgh.) b6: اسفرت الحَرْبُ (tropical:) The war became vehement. (A, K.) A2: See also 1, last sentence but one.5 تسفّر means أَتَى بِسَفَرٍ, (O, K,) i. e. He came in [the time of] the whiteness of day [either before sunrise or after sunset]. (TA.) b2: and تسفّرت الإِبِلُ The camels pastured between sunset and nightfall, (O, K,) and in the سَفِير, (K, TA,) i. e. the whiteness [of the sky] before night. (TA. [But see 2, second sentence.]) A2: تسفّر النِسَآءَ (O, K, TA) عَنْ وُجُوهِهِنَّ (O, TA) i. q. ↓ اِسْتَسْفَرَهُنَّ, (O, K, TA,) i. e. He sought the brightest of the women in face and in beauty (TA, TK *) for marriage. (TK.) b2: And تسفّر شَيْئاً مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ (tropical:) He attained, or obtained, somewhat of the object of his want (O, K, TA) before its becoming beyond his reach. (TA.) b3: and تسفّر فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:) He sought to obtain of such a one the half (النِّصْفَ, O, K, TA [in the CK. النَّصَفَ, by which, if it be correct, may perhaps be meant what was equitable, and النِّصْفَ may bear the same interpretation,]) of a claim (تَبِعَة) that he had upon him. (O, K, TA.) A3: تسفّر الجِلْدُ The skin received, or had, a mark, or an impression: (O, K:) from سَفْرٌ meaning أَثَرٌ. (TA.) 7 انسفر الغَيْمُ (assumed tropical:) The clouds became dispersed: (M, TA:) [or] became removed from the face of the sky. (TA.) b2: انسفر مُقَدَّمُ رَأْسِهِ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ (assumed tropical:) The fore part of his head became divested of the hair. (S, K. *) b3: انسفرت الإبِلُ فِى الأَرْضِ (assumed tropical:) The camels went away into the country, or land. (M, K. *) 9 إِسْفَرَّ [اِسْفَرِّتِ الشَّمْسُ, inf. n. اِسْفِرَارٌ, app. meansThe sun became white, previously to setting.] See سَفَرٌ.10 استسفر الِنّسَآءَ: see 5.

A2: استسفرهُ He sent him as a سَفِير [q. v.]. (JM.) سَفْرٌ: see مُسَافِرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also A mark, an impression, a trace, or a vestige, (أَثَرٌ, K, TA,) remaining: (TA:) pl. سُفُورٌ. (K.) [Accord. to Freytag, it occurs in the Deewán El-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning The track, or trace, of a surge, or torrent.]

سِفْرٌ A book, or writing: (S, M:) or a great, or large, book: or a section of the Book of the Law revealed to Moses: (M, K:) or a book that discovers, or reveals, truths: (TA:) or a book is thus called because it discovers things, and makes them evident: (M:) pl. أَسْفَارٌ. (S, M.) b2: With respect to the saying of Aboo-Sakhr El-Hudhalee, زلِلَيْلَى بِذَاتِ البَيْنِ دَارٌعَرَفْتُهَا وَأُخْرَى بِذَاتِ الجَيْشِ آيَاتُهَاسِفْرُ Skr says, [the poet means,] the marks, or traces, thereof had become effaced: [accordingly, the verse may be rendered, To Leylà there was in Dhát-el-Beyn an abode that I knew, and another in Dhát-el-Jeysh whereof the marks, or traces, are effaced:] IJ says, [app. holding the meaning to be, the marks, or traces, whereof are (like those of) an ancient book, such as a portion of the Mosaic Law,] the last word should be from the phrase سَفَرْتُ البَيْتَ, i. e. “ I swept the house, or chamber; ” as though the writing were swept off from the طِرْس [or “ written paper ” or the like, to which the poet seems to compare the site of the abode in Dhát-el-Jeysh]. (M, TA.) سَفَرٌ Journey, or travel; the act of journeying or travelling; (S, A, K;) contr. of حَضَرٌ: (M, K:) thus called because of the going and coming in it, like the going and coming of the wind sweeping away fallen leaves: (M:) or the act of going forth to journey; an inf. n. used as a simple subst.: (Msb:) [therefore] the pl. is أسْفَارٌ: (S, M, A, Msb, K:) [and therefore it is often used as a n. un.; but, properly speaking, the n. un. is ↓ سَفْرَةٌ:] you say, كَانَتْ سَفْرَتُهُ قَرِيبَةً [His journey was near]: and the pl. of سَفْرَةٌ, accord. to rule, is سَفَرَاتٌ. (Msb.) In law, [as relating to the obligation of fasting &c.,] The going forth with the intention of performing a journey of three days and nights, or more. (KT.) A2: Also The whiteness of dawn or daybreak: (A:) or the whiteness of the day: (S, M:) and i. q. صَبَاحٌ [dawn, or morning, or forenoon; but app. here used in the first of these senses]: (M:) and ↓ سَفِيرٌ, the whiteness [of the sky] before night: (A, TA:) or the former, the remains of the whiteness of day after sunset. (K.) You say سَفَرًا i. e. صَبَاحًا [app. as meaning In the dawn]. (A.) And the prose-rhymer says, إِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشِّعْرَى سَفَرًا لَمْ تَرَفِيهَا مَطَرًا (S, * TA) i. e. When Sirius rises in the whiteness of day [meaning in the clear twilight of morning, thou seest not then rain: for Sirius rises aurorally, in Arabia, in the middle and the latter half of July, when rain scarcely ever falls there]. (S. [Accord. to the TA, the meaning, app. taken without consideration from one of the foregoing explanations of سَفَرٌ, is, when Sirius rises at nightfall: but this is during the usual winter-rains.]) You say also, لَقِيتُهُ سَفَرًا, and فِى سَفَرٍ, meaning ↓ عِنْدَاسْفِرَارِ الشَّمْسِ لِلغُرُوبِ, thus related, with س [in the word اسفرار (not with ص), and app. meaning I met him when the sun was becoming white, previously to the setting]. (M.) And بَقِىَ سَفَرٌ مِنْ نَهَارٍ [There remained a white gleam of daylight]. (A.) سَفْرَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

سُفْرَةٌ The food of the traveller; (M, K;) the food that is prepared for the traveller, (S, Msb,) or for a journey: (TA:) pl. َسُفَرٌ. (Msb.) This is the primary signification. (TA.) You say, أَكَلُوا السُّفْرَةَ They ate the food for the journey. (A.) b2: Hence, (tropical:) The receptacle thereof; (TA;) the piece of skin in which it is put. (S, * M, * Msb, K, * TA.) [This is commonly of a round form, with a running string; so that it is converted into a bag to contain the food, at one time, and at another time is spread flat upon the ground, when persons want to eat upon it.] b3: And hence, (tropical:) The thing [whatever it be] upon which one eats: (TA:) [in the desert, it is generally a round piece of skin, such as I have described above: in the towns, in the houses of the middle classes, a round tray of tinned copper, which is usually placed on a low stool; and in the dwellings of some of the highest classes, and the lowest, respectively, of silver and wood:] accord. to the T, سُفْرَةٌ has the last of the significations given before this, and the thing which it denotes is thus called because it is spread when one eats upon it. (TA.) سِفَارٌ (Lh, S, M, K) and ↓ سِفَارَةٌ (Lh, M) A piece of iron, (S, M, K,) or a cord, (M,) or a piece of skin, (K,) that is put over the nose [and jaws] of a camel, in the place of the حَكَمَة [q. v.] (Lh, S, M, K) of the horse: (S, K:) or a cord that is attached to the خِطَام [q. v.] of a camel, a part being twisted round it, and the rest being made a rein: and sometimes it is of iron: (Lth:) pl. [of pauc., of the former,] أَسْفِرَةٌ (M, K) and [of mult.] سُفُرٌ (S, M, K) and [of either] سَفَائِرُ. (M, K.) سَفِيرٌ Leaves which the wind sweeps away; (M;) leaves which fall from trees (S, A, K) and which the wind sweeps away, (A,) or because the wind sweeps them away: (S:) or leaves of herbs; because the wind sweeps them away: (T, TA:) or what have fallen of the leaves of trees and of the lower portions of seed-produce. (JM.) A2: Also A messenger: (S:) and (assumed tropical:) a mediator; or a man who makes peace, effects a reconciliation, or adjusts a difference, between a people; (S, M, Msb;) as also ↓ سَافِرٌ: (Msb:) or a messenger who makes peace, &c.: (T, Mgh, TA:) [see 1:] pl. of the former سُفَرَآءُ, (S, M, Mgh,) and of the latter سَفَرَةٌ. (Har p. 255. [See also سِفَارَةٌ, below.]) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A commissioned agent, a factor, or a deputy; and the like: pl. as above: app. so called because he discovers, and makes manifest, the affair in which he acts as a substitute for another person. (Msb.) A3: See also سَفَرٌ.

سُفَارَةٌ Sweepings. (S, M, K.) سِفَارَةٌ an inf. n. of سَفَرَ in the phrase سَفَرَ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [q. v.]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) [And hence, The office of the سَفِير (q. v.). See also De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., i. 126 and 172: and Quatremère's Hist. des Sultans Mamlouks, i. 193.]

A2: Also The falling of one's hair from [above] his forehead. (Sgh, TA.) A3: See also سِفَارٌ.

سَافِرٌ [act. part. n. of 1:] A woman having her face uncovered: (S, M, Mgh, K:) pl. سَوَافِرُ. (TA.) b2: And a horse (assumed tropical:) having little flesh: (K:) or so سَافِرُ اللَّحْمِ, a phrase used by Ibn-Mukbil. (TA.) b3: See also سَفِيرٌ. b4: And see مُسَافِرٌ, in two places.

A2: Also A writer; a scribe: (Akh, S, M, K:) in the Nabathæan language سَافِرَا: (M:) pl. سَفَرَةٌ: (Akh, S, M, K:) which is also applied to the angels who register actions. (M, K.) تَسْفِيرَةٌ: see مِسْفَرَةٌ.

مَسْفَرٌ sing. of مَسَافِرُ, (A,) which signifies The part that appears [or parts that appear] of the face. (S, A, * K.) b2: [Also, or مَسْفِرٌ, A place of journeying or travelling: in which sense, likewise, its pl. is مَسَافِرُ.] One says, بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ مَسَافِرُ بَعِيدَةٌ [Between me and him, or it, are farextending tracts to be travelled]. (A.) مُسْفِرٌ [act. part. n. of 4, q. v.:] (tropical:) A face shining (A, TA) with happiness. (A.) b2: النَّاقَةُ المُسْفِرَةُ الحُمْرَةِ [in the CK (erroneously) الحُمْرَةُ] means (assumed tropical:) [The she-camel] that is somewhat above such as is termed صَهْبَآء [in respect of redness]. (O, K, TA.) مِسْفَرٌ: see مِسْفَرَةٌ. b2: Also A man (TA) that journeys, or travels, much; (K;) and so ↓ مِسْفَارٌ: (A:) or that journeys, or travels, much, and is strong for journeying: (M:) and, applied to a camel, (S, M, A,) strong for journeying; (S, M, A, K;) fem. with ة, (S, M, K,) applied to a she-camel, (S, M,) as also ↓ مِسْفَارٌ, thus applied. (M.) مِسْفَرَةٌ A broom; a thing with which one sweeps; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ مِسْفَرٌ, and ↓ تَسْفِيرَةٌ, of which last, (expl. by مَا يُسْفَرُ بِهِ,) the pl. is تَسَافِيرُ. (TA.) مُسَفِّرٌ i. q. مُجَلِّدٌ [i. e. One who binds books (أَسْفَار, pl. of سِفْرٌ), or covers them with leather]. (A, TA.) مِسْفَارٌ: see مِسْفَرٌ, in two places.

مَسْفُورٌ Distressed, or fatigued, by journeying or travel. (TA.) مُسَافِرٌ A man journeying, or travelling; a traveller; a wayfarer; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ سَافِرٌ; (M, * K;) which latter is [said to be] not a part. n., but [a possessive epithet] meaning ذُو سَفَرٍ, (M,) having no verb belonging to it (M, K) that we have seen; (M;) or it is from سَفَرَ, and signifies going forth on a journey: (S, Msb:) pl. of the former مُسَافِرُونَ, (S,) and of the latter سُفَّارٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and أَسْفَارٌ (M, K) and سُفَّرٌ; (TA;) and you also say ↓ قَوْمٌ سَافِرَةٌ [fem. of سَافِرٌ], (S, * M, Msb, K,) and ↓ قَوْمٌ سَفْرٌ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) [سَفْرٌ being a quasi-pl. n.,] like صَحْبٌ in relation to صَاحِبْ: (S, Mgh, Msb:) and ↓ سَفْرٌ is also used as a sing., (M, K,) being originally an inf. n. (TA.) b2: مُسَافِرَةٌ is used by Zuheyr as a name for A [wild] cow. (M, TA.)