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صُعْرُورٌ ذ (S, K, & c.) and ↓ صُعُرُّرٌ (Sgh, K) Long, slender, twisted gum: (K:) or a piece of gum having a long and twisted form: (AZ, S:) and [gum of the kind called] لَثًى that has become concrete: (K:) or this is the signification of صَعَارِيرُ, (S, K,) which is the pl. [of صعرور], (TA,) accord. to AA: (S:) or the pl. signifies concrete gum resembling fingers: and صعرور is said to signify a piece of gum: accord. to Aboo-Nasr, it is like a read-pen, and twisting like a horn: and AHn says that صُعْرُورَةٌ, with ة, signifies a small round piece of gum: (TA:) and the fruit, (K,) or any fruit, (TA,) of a tree that is like (that of, TA) the أَبْهَل, and like pepper, and what resembles this, of such as are hard: (K, TA:) or such they term صَعَارِيرُ: (TA:) or gum in general: pl. صَعَارِيرُ. (K.) ― -b2- Also, (K,) or صُعْرُورٌ [only], (TA,) (assumed tropical:) A certain substance, yellow, [in the CK اصغر is put for اصفر,] thick, tough with [somewhat of] softness and moisture, that comes forth from the teat: (K:) so called by way of comparison: (TA:) or what is first milked, of biestings: (K:) or milk that is gummy (مُصْمِغٌ), in biestings, before it becomes clear. (TA.) ― -b3- صُعْرُورَةٌ The little ball which is rolled along by the [kind of beetle called] جُعَل. (K, TA.) ― -b4- صَعَارِيرُ (assumed tropical:) Long fingers. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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