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شَصَرٌ ذ (A 'Obeyd, S, K) and ↓ شَاصِرٌ (Lth, S, K) and ↓ شَوْصَرٌ (K) The young one of the gazelle, when he has become strong and active: (A 'Obeyd, S, L, &c.:) in the K, when he has become strong, but not active; but this is a mistake: (TA:) or that has become old enough to smite with his horn: or that has become a month old: or that has not yet cropped the herbage [but only sucked his mother]; expl. by الَّذِى لَمْ يَحْتَنِكْ: (K:) A 'Obeyd states that it is said by more than one of the Arabs of the desert that the young one of the gazelle is called طَلًا; then, خِشْفٌ; and when his horns come forth, شَادِنٌ; and when he has become strong and active, شَصَرٌ, of which the fem. [as is also said in the K] is شَصَرَةٌ; then, جَذَعٌ; and then, ثَنِىٌّ, which name he continues to have until he dies: (S:) [perhaps correctly corresponding to our six terms which are as follows: a fawn (applied to a buck or doe of the first year), a pricket (to a buck of the second year), a sorel (to a buck of the third year), a sore (to a buck of the fourth year), a buck of the first head (to one of the fifth year), and a great buck (to one of the sixth year):] or ↓ شَاصِرٌ is applied to a young gazelle when his horn has come forth: (Lth:) pl. [of شَصَرٌ,] أَشْصَارٌ. (K.) ― -b2- شَصَرٌ also signifies A certain bird, smaller than the عُصْفُور [or sparrow], (AA, O, K,) of the colour thereof. (AA, O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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