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عَرَنٌ ذ A callousness in the hind leg of a horse or similar beast, above the pastern, in the hinder part thereof; and it is what is called شُقَاق [q. v.]: and, as ISk says, purulent pustules (قَرْح) that arise in the neck of a camel, in consequence of which he scratches, or scrapes, himself, and sometimes he lies down against the stem of a tree and scratches, or scrapes, himself therewith; and its cure, he says, is the burning of fat upon him. (S:) and an eruption like pustules, or purulent pustules, in the necks of young weaned camels, in consequence of which they scratch, or scrape, themselves: (IB, TA:) or, as also ↓ عُرْنَةٌ and ↓ عِرَانٌ , a certain disease in the hinder part of the hind leg of a horse or similar beast, (K, TA,) like an abrasion in the skin, (TA,) causing the hair to fall off: or a cracking, or chapping, (K, TA,) incident to horse, (TA,) in their fore legs and their hind legs: or a callousness that arises in the pastern of a horse (K, TA) or similar beast, and in the place of its fetlock, in the hinder part, and a شُقَاق [q. v.] that betides it from the kicking against a mountain or stone. (TA.) -A2- Also The foul smell, or foulness [of the hands] with the smell, of flesh-meat and its grease; syn. غَمَرٌ: (K:) so in the saying, أَجِدُ رَائِحَةَ عَرَنِ يَدَيْكَ [I perceive the odour of the foulness of thy hands with the smell of flesh-meat and its grease]: (IAar, TA:) or عَرَنٌ signifies the odour of flesh-meat that has عَرْم [i. e. grease, or gravy]: and also i. q. عَرْم [itself, q. v.]. (TA.) And The odour of cooked flesh-meat; (Kr, K;) as also ↓ عِرْنٌ . (K.) And A mark, or relic, [or soil,] of broth upon the hand of the cater. (El-Hejeree, TA.) And Cooked flesh-meat: (IAar, K:) or, as some say, flesh, or flesh-meat, in an absolute sense. (TA.) ― -b2- And Smoke. (K.) -A3- Also A species of tree, with which one tans. (K.) Dioscorides asserts the عرن to be A plant having leaves resembling those of the small lentil, except that they are longer than they, and having a stem about a span tall, and a red flower, and a small root; growing in neglected, or uncultivated, places: a poultice of its leaves with olive-oil is sudorific; its bruised leaves applied as a poultice act as a discutient to wounds and inflamed pustules; and taken in a beverage. or sirup, they cure the dribbling of the urine. (Avicenna, i. e. Ibn-Seenà book ii. p. 235.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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