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سُكْرٌ ذ an inf. n., (A, Mgh, K,) or a simple subst., signifying Intoxication, inebriation, or drunkenness; i. e. the state thereof; (S, Msb;) a state that intervenes as an obstruction between a man and his intellect; mostly used in relation to intoxicating drinks: but sometimes as meaning (assumed tropical:) such a state arising from anger, or from the passion of love: a poet says, “ سُكْرَانِ سُكْرُ هَوًى وَسُكْرُ مُدَامَةٍ
أَنَّى يُفِيقُ فَتًى بِهِ سُكْرَانِ
” [Two intoxications, the intoxication of love and the intoxication of wine: how shall a youth recover his senses in whom are two intoxications?]. (Er-Rághib, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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