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صُرَّةٌ ذ A purse (شَرَجٌ, M, K, in the CK شَرْجٌ,) for money; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مَصَرٌّ , with fet-h, (TA,) or ↓ مِصَرٌّ : (so in a copy of the A:) pl. of the first, صُرَزٌ. (Msb.) Hence the prov., اِفْتَحْ صُرَرَكَ تَعْلَمْ عُجَرَكَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Return to thyself, [or lay open the recesses of thy mind,] and thou wilt know [thy vices, or faults, or] thy good from thy evil. (Meyd. [See also صُرَدٌ, last explanation.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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