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سِرٌّ ذ A secret; a thing that is concealed, or suppressed, (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) in the mind; (TA;) as also ↓ سَرِيرَةٌ : (S, M, A, K:) or the former has the above-mentioned signification, and the latter signifies a secret action, whether good or evil: (Lth:) [and the former, also, a mystery:] pl. of the former, أَسْرَارٌ; (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) and of the latter, سَرَائِرُ. (S, A, K.) It is said in a prov., مَا يَوْمُ حَلِيمَةَ بِسِرٍّ [The day of Haleemeh is not a secret]: applied to anything commonly known: alluding to Haleemeh the daughter of El-Hárith the son of Aboo-Shemir El-Ghassánee; for, when her father sent an army to El-Mundhir the son of Má-es-Semà, she took forth for the soldiers some perfume in a vessel (مِرْكَن), and perfumed them with it. (S.) [You say also, هُوَ مَوْضِعُ سِرِّى He is the depositary of my secret, or secrets.] The words of the Kur [lxxxvi. 9] ↓ يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ signify In the day wherein the secret tenets and intentions shall be tried and revealed: (Jel:) or by السرائر is here meant fasting, and prayer, and alms-giving, and ablution on account of the pollution termed جَنَابَة. (TA.) [See also a verse cited in the third paragraph of art. عرض.] ― -b2- A thing that is revealed, appears, or is made manifest: thus it has two contrary significations. (MF.) ― -b3- السِّرُّ [for مَحَلُّ السِّرِّ, (assumed tropical:) The heart; the mind; the recesses of the mind; the secret thoughts; the soul;] is a syn. of الضَّمِيرُ. (K in art. ضمر. [See also سَرِيرَةٌ.]) [لَا تُتْعِبْ سِرَّكَ (assumed tropical:) Weary not thy heart, or mind, is a common modern phrase. And one says, of a deceased holy man, قَدَّسَ ا@للّٰهُ سِرَّهُ (assumed tropical:) May God sanctify his soul.] ― -b4- سِرٌّ also signifies Secrecy; privacy; contr. of عَلَانِيَةٌ. (S in art. علن.) You say سِرًّا وَعَلَانِيَةً [Secretly and openly; or privately and publickly]. (Kur ii. 275, &c.) ― -b5- Concealment. (S.) ― -b6- Suppression; contr. of إِِعْلَانٌ. (Msb.) [So in the phrase تَكَلَّمَ سِرًّا He spoke with a suppressed, or low, voice; softly.] ― -b7- [One having private knowledge of a thing. You say,] فُلَانٌ سِرُّ هٰذَا الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one has [private] knowledge of this thing. (TA.) ― -b8- (tropical:) The penis (T, S, M, K) of a man: (T:) and (tropical:) the vulva, or external portion of the organs of generation, of a woman. (K.) One says, اِلْتَقَى السِّرَّانِ (tropical:) The two pudenda met. (A.) ― -b9- (tropical:) Concubitus. (AHeyth, S, Mgh, K.) ― -b10- (tropical:) Marriage: (M, A, Msb, K:) pl. أَسْرَارٌ. (TA.) You say, وَاعَدَهَا سِرًّا (tropical:) He promised her marriage, she promising him the same. (A.) So, accord. to some, in the Kur ii. 235. (TA.) ― -b11- (tropical:) Plain declaration of marriage: (K:) i. e., a man's offering himself in marriage to a woman during her عِدَّة: so expl. as occurring in the Kur ubi suprà: (TA:) or a man's demanding a woman in marriage during her عِدَّة. (Mujáhid.) ― -b12- (tropical:) Adultery, or fornication: (AHeyth, (K:) so, accord. to Aboo-Mijlez and El-Hasan, in the Kur ubi suprà. (TA.) Hence the saying, لَا يُرْجَى مِنْ وَلَدِ السِّرِّ بِرٌّ (tropical:) One does not hope for filial piety from the offspring of adultery, or fornication. (TK.) ― -b13- (assumed tropical:) Origin; syn. أَصْلٌ; (M, K;) as in the phrase هُوَ كَرِيمُ السِّرِّ كَثِيرُ البِرِّ He is of generous origin, of much filial piety. (TK.) ― -b14- (assumed tropical:) The commencement, or first night, of a lunar month: (K, TA:) or its middle; (K;) app. meaning what are called الأَيَّامُ البِيضُ: (TA:) but Az says, I know it not in this sense. (IAth.) ― -b15- (assumed tropical:) The interior of anything; its heart. (K.) Whence سِرُّ الشَّهْرِ and اللَّيْلِ (assumed tropical:) [The middle of the lunar month and of the night]. (TA.) ― -b16- The marrow of anything. (TA.) ― -b17- (tropical:) The pure, or choice, or best, part of anything. (Fr, M, K.) You say, أَعْطَيْتُكَ سِرَّهُ (tropical:) I gave thee the pure, or choice, or best, part of it. (A.) ― -b18- (tropical:) The pure, or genuine, quality of race, or lineage: (S, A, K:) its best quality: (S, K:) and the middle sort thereof; (S;) and of rank, or quality, or the like: (M:) as also ↓ سَرَارٌ and ↓ سَرَارَةٌ . (M, K.) One says, هُوَ فِى سِرِّ قَوْمِهِ (tropical:) He is of the best [in race or family] of his people: (TA:) or of the middle sort of them. (S.) ― -b19- (tropical:) The low, or depressed, part of a valley: (K:) the best, (S, K,) or most fruitful, (As, M, TA,) part thereof: (As, S, M, K:) as also ↓ سَرَارٌ (M, K) and ↓ سَرَارَةٌ (As, S, M, K) and ↓ سُرَّةٌ : (M, K:) or the last signifies the middle of a valley: (S:) the pl. of سِرٌّ is سِرَرٌ and سُرُورٌ (M) and أَسِرَّةٌ, like as أَقِنَّةٌ is of قِنٌّ, (S,) or the last is pl. of ↓ سَرَارٌ , like as أَقْذِلَةٌ is of قَذَالٌ; (M;) and that of ↓ سَرَارَةٌ is ↓ سَرَارٌ , (S,) or [this is a coll. gen. n., and the pl. is] سَرَائِرُ: (M:) also ↓ سُرَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) the middle of a city: and أَسِرَّةٌ the middles of meadows. (TA.) And أَرْضٌ سِرٌّ (assumed tropical:) Fruitful, good, land; (M, K;) as also ↓ سَرَّآءُ . (K, * TA.) ― -b20- Also (assumed tropical:) Goodness; excellence. (Msb.) ― -b21- Also, and ↓ سُرٌّ , (M, K,) and ↓ سِرَرٌ , (S, M, K,) and ↓ سُرُرٌ , (K,) and ↓ سِرَارٌ , (S, M, K,) A line of the palm of the hand, (M, K, *) and of the face, (M,) and of the forehead: (S, M, Mgh:) pl. (of سِرٌّ, TA, or of ↓ سِرَارٌ , S) أَسِرَّةٌ, (M, TA,) and (of the same, K, or of ↓ سِرَرٌ , S, Mgh) أَسْرَارٌ; (S, M, Mgh, K;) and pl. pl., [i. e. pl. of أَسْرَارٌ,] أَسَارِيرُ: (S, M, (Mgh, K:) this last, accord. to AA, signifies the lines in the forehead, from the shrivelling of the skin; and its sing. is ↓ سَرَرٌ : (TA:) some also apply the pl. أَسِرَّةٌ to (tropical:) lines, or streaks, of herbage; as being likened to the lines of the hand and of the face, but this is not of valid authority: (M:) and أَسَارِيرُ (as pl. of أَسْرَارٌ, which is pl. of سِرَرٌ, TA) also signifies the beauties of the face, and of the cheeks, and of the elevated parts of the cheeks. (K, TA.) ― -b22- وُلِدَ لَهُ ثَلَاثَةٌ عَلَى سِرٍّ, (K,) and عَلَى وَاحِدٍ ↓ سِرَرٍ , (K, * TA,) means Three children were born to him, whose navel-strings were cut in a similar manner, without any female among them. (K. [See also سُرٌّ.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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