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سنر

1 سَنِرَ ذ , aor. سَنَرَ , (TK,) inf. n. سَنَرٌ, (M, K,) He (a man, TK) was, or became, illnatured, or very perverse or cross: (K, TK:) or narrow in disposition. (M.) Hence is derived سِنَّوْرٌ, in the first of the senses expl. below. (M.) [Or perhaps the reverse may be the case.] سُنَارٌ ذ , or سُنَّارٌ: see the last paragraph. سَنَوَّرٌ ذ A coat made of thongs, (S, M, K,) worn in war, (M,) like a coat of mail: (S, K:) [and] any weapon of iron: (A:) and weapons, or arms, collectively: (M, K:) or, accord. to some, coats of mail: (M:) so As means in explaining السَّنَوَّرُ as signifying what consists of rings: (TA:) or, as some say, a coat of mail: (Ham p. 352:) or all iron. (AO.) سِنَّوْرٌ ذ The cat; of the masc. gender; syn. هِرٌّ; (M, A, Msb;) as also ↓ سُنَّارٌ , (K,) or ↓ سُنَارٌ : (as in a copy of the M:) fem. with ة: (Msb:) pl. سَنَانِيرُ: (S, Msb, K:) but سنّور is rare in the language of the Arabs: هِرٌّ and ضَيْوَنٌ are more common. (IAmb, Msb.) And اِبْنُ السِّنَّوْرِ The دَرِص [or دَرْص, i. e. kitten, or the like]. (T in art. بني.) ― -b2- A lord, master, or chief; (M, K;) in some copies of the K, سِيد is erroneously put for سَيِّد; (TA;) a chief of a tribe: (Sgh:) pl. as above. (Sgh, K.) ― -b3- A vertebra (M, K) of the upper part (TA) of the neck (M, K) of a camel: (M, TA:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b4- The root of the tail: (Er-Riyáshee, K:) pl. as above. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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