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عُرَّةٌ ذ : see عَرٌّ. ― -b2- Also Madness, or such as is caused by diabolical possession, affecting a man: You say, بِهِ عُرَّةٌ In him is madness, &c. (S, O.) ― -b3- Dung, such as is called بَعَر, and سِرْجِين, (S, O,) or سِرْقِين, (Mgh,) [i. e. dung of horses or other solid-hoofed animals, and of camels, sheep and goats, wild oxen, and the like,] and that of birds; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ عُرٌّ : (O, K:) and human ordure. (O, K.) It is said in a trad., لَعَنَ ا@للّٰهُ بَائِعَ العُرَّةِ وَمُشْتَرِيَهَا i. e. [God has cursed, or may God curse, the seller of] سرقين [or perhaps the meaning may be human ordure, and the buyer thereof], (Mgh.) ― -b4- Dirt, or filth. (Msb.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Filthiness in the natural dispositions. (O.) ― -b6- (tropical:) A thing that exposes its author to disgrace; a vice, or fault, or the like. (O, Msb, TA.) See also مَعَرَّةٌ. [And see عُرٌّ, voce عَرٌّ. Hence,] عُرَّةُ النِّسَآءِ (tropical:) That which disgraces women; their evil conversation or behaviour, with others. (TA.) ― -b7- As an epithet applied to a man, (S, O, Msb,) (assumed tropical:) Dirty, or filthy; as also ↓ عَارُورٌ and ↓ عَارُورَةٌ : (S, O:) [or] having an intensive signification [as though meaning “ dirt, ” or “ filth, ” itself]: (Msb:) (assumed tropical:) a man who is the disgrace of the people [to whom he belongs]: (K:) a man sullied, or bespattered, with evil. (IDrd, O.) And one says, فُلَانٌ عُرَّةُ أَهْلِهِ meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is the worst of his family. (TA.) ― -b8- Also (assumed tropical:) The act of doing an abominable, or evil, thing, to another. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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