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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.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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