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زَوْرَةٌ ذ A single visit. (S, TA.) -A2- Distance; remoteness: (S, K:) from الاِزْوِرَارُ. (S.) A poet (Sakhr El-Ghei, TA) says, “ وَمَآءٍ وَرَدْتُ عَلَى زَوْرَةٍ
” [To many a water have I come, notwithstanding its distance]: (S:) or, accord. to AA, عَلَى زَوْرَةٍ, in this ex., accord. to one relation زُورَة, but the former is the better known, means upon a she-camel that looked from the outer angle of her eye, by reason of her vehemence and sharpness of temper. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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