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حَائِرٌ ذ : see حَيْرَانُ, in two places. ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A place in which water collects (S, K, TA) and goes to and fro: (TA:) a watering-trough, or tank, to which a stream of rain-water flows: (K:) or what resembles a watering-trough, or tank, in which the rain-water collects and remains: (A:) a depressed place (K, TA) in which water collects and remains, or goes round, or goes to and fro, not passing forth from it: (TA:) or a place in the ground depressed in the middle and having elevated edges or borders, (AHn, TA,) in which is water: (TA voce يَعْبُوبٌ:) and hence, (TA,) a garden; as also ↓ حَيْرٌ ; (K;) which is the form used by most persons, and by the vulgar; like as they say عَيْشةُ for عَائِشَةُ: or this form is wrong: it is disallowed by AHn, notwithstanding its being mentioned by A 'Obeyd; but he mentions it only in one place, and it is not found in every copy of his work: (ISd:) pl. حِيرَانٌ (S, A, K) and حُورَانٌ. (S, K.) Hassán Ibn-Thábit uses the phrase حَائِرُ البَحْرِ [in a verse which I have cited in the first paragraph of art. رب, app. as meaning (assumed tropical:) The depth of the sea; or part of the sea in which is a confluence of the water, and where it goes round, or to and fro]. (TA.) -A2- Also Grease; oily animal matter, that flows from flesh or fat. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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