Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زعر

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