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زِيرٌ ذ [A large water-jar, wide in the upper part and nearly pointed at the bottom;] a [vessel of the kind called] دَنّ: or a [vessel such as is called] حُبّ, (K,) in which water is put: (TA: [but يعمل is there put by mistake for يُجْعَلُ:]) of the dial. of El-'Irák [and that of Egypt]: pl. أَزْيَارٌ: a foreign word. (TA in art. زور, in which, and in art. زير, the word is mentioned in the K.) -A2- See also art. زور. -A3- Also I. q. زِرٌّ; (IAar, TA in art. زور;) the former ر in the latter word being changed by some of the Arabs into ى in this and similar instances. (Az, TA.) -A4- [See also بَصَلٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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