Core sense — a short rope binding the lower part of a tent to the peg; dry foddergenerated
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A short, or small, rope by which the lower part of the [kind of tent called] خِبَآء is tied to the peg; also أَيْصَرٌ, إِصَارَةٌ and آصِرَةٌ.
Or a short peg, for the [ropes called] أَطْنَاب with which the lower part of the [kind of tent called] خبآ is fastened.
Ibn-Es-Seed: إِصَارٌ also means the peg, or short peg, of the [kind of tent-rope called] طُنُب, or a peg of the خبآء.
Plural of the first أُصُرٌ and آصِرَةٌ; of the second أَيَاصِرُ.
ISd thinks that آصِرَات is the plural of آصِرَةٌ in the first of the senses explained above, in the following verse:
shāhidلَعَمْرُكَ لَا أَذْنُو لِوَصْلِ دَنِيَّةٍوَ لَا أَتَصَبَى آصِرَاتِ خَلِيلِى
The poet means: [By your life, I will not approach to hold loving communion, or intercourse, with an ignoble, or a low, female;] nor will I turn my regard to the short ropes that bind [to the pegs] the lower part of my friend's tent, coveting his wife and the like. Or he may mean: nor will I turn my regard to my friend's female relations, such as his paternal aunt and his maternal aunt.
[See آصِرَةٌ below.]
1.1
Also, the first word: a thing by which things are tied firmly, or made firm or fast.
1.2
A thong of untanned hide which binds together the عَضُدَانِ of a camel's saddle.
إِسَارٌ is a dialectal variant of it.
1.3
This word, and also أَيْصَرٌ: a [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء in which dry herbage, or fodder, is collected.
Or a كسآء filled with herbage and tied; or a كسآء that has dry herbage, or fodder, in it — otherwise it is not called by this name.
Plural [of the former] أُصُرٌ and آصِرَةٌ, and of the latter أَيَاصِرُ.
1.4to such a one belongs a place, or land, abounding with dry herbage, and its dry herbage will not be cut—أَيْصَرَهُ لِفُلَانٍ مَحَشٌّ لَا يُجَزُّ
Both words: dry herbage, or fodder; or dry herbage, or fodder, collected together; or dry herbage in a [garment of the kind called] كسآء — otherwise it is not called by this name; or dry herbage, or fodder, contained in a مِحَشّ.
This saying is cited as an example of the first of these meanings.
That is, because of its abundance.
1.5
Also, the former word: a basket in which goods, or commodities, are carried.
So called from being likened to the thing in which dry herbage is put.
Show Lane's original text
and أَيْصَرٌ (S, M, K) and إِصَارَةٌ and آصِرَةٌ (M, K) A short rope, (S,) or small rope, (K,) by which the lower part of the [kind of tent called] خِبَآء is tied, or bound, (S, K,) to the peg: (S:) or a short peg, for the [ropes called] أَطْنَاب , with which the lower part of the [kind of tent called] خبآ is fastened: (M:) [or] إِصَارٌ signifies also the peg, (K,) or short peg, (TA,) of the [kind of tent-rope called] طُنُب : (K:) or a peg of the خبآء : (Ibn-Es-Seed, TA:) pl. of the first أُصُرٌ (S, M) and آصِرَةٌ ; (M;) and of the second أَيَاصِرُ . (S.) ISd thinks that آصِرَات is the pl. of آصِرَةٌ used in the first of the senses explained above in in the following verse: 1 the poet meaning [By thy life, I will not approach to hold loving communion, or intercourse, with an ignoble, or a low, female;] nor will I direct my regard to the short ropes which bind [to the pegs] the lower part of the tent of my friend, coveting his wife, and the like: or he may mean nor will I direct my regard to the female relations of my friend, such as his paternal aunt, and his maternal aunt, and the like. (TA.) [See آصِرَةٌ , below.] لَعَمْرُكَ لَا أَذْنُو لِوَصْلِ دَنِيَّةٍ | وَ لَا أَتَصَبَى آصِرَاتِ خَلِيلِى Also, the first, A thing by which things are tied firmly, or made firm or fast. (TA.) A thong of untanned hide which binds together the عَضُدَانِ of a camel's saddle: and إِسَارٌ is a dial. var. thereof. (M.) Also, (M, K,) and أَيْصَرٌ , (AZ, As, K,) A [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء in which dry herbage, or fodder, is collected: (M, K:) or a كسآء filled with herbage, and tied: (AZ:) or a كسآء in which is dry herbage, or fodder: otherwise it is not thus called: (As:) pl. [of the former] أُصُرٌ and آصِرَةٌ ; (K;) and of the latter أَيَاصِرُ . (AZ.) And both words, (the former accord. to the S and M and K, and the latter accord. to As and the S and M and K,) Dry herbage, or fodder: (S, K:) or dry herbage, or fodder, collected together: (TA:) or dry herbage, or fodder, in a [garment of the kind called] كسآء : otherwise it is not thus called: (As:) or dry herbage, or fodder, contained in a مِحَشّ . (M.) [The following saying is cited as an ex. of the first of these significations:] أَيْصَرَهُ لِفُلَانٍ مَحَشٌّ لَا يُجَزُّ [To such a one belongs a place, or land, abounding with dry herbage,] the dry herbage whereof will not be cut; (S;) meaning, because of its abundance. (TA.) Also, the former, A basket ( زَبِيل or زنْبِيل , as in different copies of the K) in which goods, or commodities, ( مَتَاع ,) are carried: so called as being likened to the thing in which dry herbage is put. (TA.)