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دَهَارِيرُ دهارير , a pl. without a sing.; (K, TA;) or its sing. is ↓ دَهْرٌ , like as the sing. of مَذَاكِيرُ is ذَكَرٌ, and that of مَشَابِهُ, شَبَهٌ; or its sing. is ↓ دُهْرُورٌ , or ↓ دِهْرَارٌ , [in the TA written by mistake دهرات,] or ↓ دِهْرِيرٌ ; (TA;) Misfortunes; calamities: as in the phrase وَقَعَ فِى الدَّهَارِيرِ He fell into misfortunes, or calamities. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Also Severe, or calamitous. (S.) It is said in a trad. of Sateeh, “ فَإِِنَّ ذَا الدَّهْرَ أَطْوَارًا دَهَارِيرُ
” [For verily this age is at times calamitous]. (TA.) دَهْرٌ دَهَارِيرُ, A severe, or calamitous, age, is a phrase like لَيْلَةُ لَيْلَآءُ, and نَهَارٌ أَنْهَرُ, &c.: (S:) [see also دَاهِرٌ:] and it also signifies a time of two states, adverse and prosperous: (TA:) and دُهُورٌ دَهَارِيرٌ, various, or varying, times: (K:) or long times. (A.) [See دَاهِرٌ.] ― -b3- Also دَهَارِيرُ [or rather, as IbrD says, دَهْرُ الدَّهَارِيرِ, for this has the signification immediately following,] The beginning of time past: and [absolutely] preceding, or past, time. (K, TA.) You say كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى دَهْرِ الدَّهَارِيرِ [That was in the beginning of past time: or in the time of by-gone ages]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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