Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ظ

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ظِئْرٌ ذ One that inclines to, or affects, the young one of another, and suckles [or fosters] it; applied to a human being, (M, A, K,) and to a camel, (M,) or other [animal]; (A, K;) to a female and to a male: (M, A, K:) or a she-camel that inclines to, or affects, the young one of another; (Msb;) as also ↓ ظَؤُورٌ : (S:) and hence applied also to a strange woman that nurses, or fosters, the child of another: and likewise to a man who fosters the child of another: and also pronounced ظِيرٌ, with the ' suppressed: (Msb:) and the epithet ظِئْرَةٌ is also applied to a female: (A:) the pl. [of pauc.] is أَظْؤُرٌ (M, K) and أَظْآرٌ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) [which latter is also used as a pl. of mult., accord. to an ex. given in the A;] and [the proper pls. of mult. are] ظُؤُورٌ and ↓ ظُؤَارٌ , (S, M, K,) which last is an extr. form, (M,) and ↓ ظُؤْرَةٌ , (M, K,) or, accord. to Sb, this is a quasipl. n., (M,) and ظُؤُورَةٌ, (M, K,) like فُحُولَةٌ and بُعُولَةٌ: (M:) or the pl., applied to camels, is ↓ ظُؤَارٌ ; and to women, ظُؤُورَةٌ: (M:) or to women, ظِئَارٌ and ↓ ظُؤَارٌ : (Msb:) ↓ ظُؤُورَةٌ also signifies a nurse: (IAar:) and ↓ ظَؤُورٌ signifies the same as ظِئْرٌ: (TA:) or a she-camel made to incline to, or affect, the young one of another; (M;) as also ↓ مَظْؤُورَةٌ : (S:) or that keeps close to the young one, or to the stuffed skin of a young one. (M.) ― -b2- [The pl.] ↓ ظُؤَارٌ is also applied (by a poet, M, TA) to (tropical:) The three stones upon which the cooking-pot is placed: (S, M, K, TA:) likened to camels; (M, TA;) because of their inclining (S, M, TA) towards, (S,) or around, (M, TA,) the ashes. (S, M, TA.) ― -b3- And ظِئْرٌ signifies also (tropical:) An angle, or a corner, of a قَصْر [or pavilion, &c.]. (K.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) A buttress built against a wall; (K, * TA;) likewise called ↓ ظِئْرَةٌ . (TA.)