عقر

Also عَقَرَهَا; maṣdar عَقْرٌ and عقّرهُ.

Also عقّرها, maṣdar تَعْقِيرٌ; [or this last is intensive, or applies to many objects.]

The synonym is عَرْقَبَ. He laid bare the camel's عُرْقُوب [or hock-tendon]; that is what عقر means with the Arabs.

Said of a camel, or of a horse, or of a sheep or goat: he struck, or cut, its legs, بِالسَّيْفِ, with the sword while the beast was standing.

He cut one of the camel's legs before stabbing it, so that it could not run away when stabbed but would fall down and be in his power.

He moved the camel's legs with the sword; he made a mark, or wound, like a notch, in the legs of a horse or of a camel. [See عَقْرٌ below.]

Muḍāriʿ and maṣdar as above. So called because the slaughterer of a camel first lays bare its عَرْقُوب [or hock-tendon; or hocks it; or strikes or cuts its legs, or one of them, with a sword].

So in the saying of Imra-el-Keys: [And the day when I slaughtered for the virgins my riding-camel]

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And so in the tradition لَا عَقْرَ فِى الإِسْلَامِ [There shall be no slaughtering of camels at the grave in the time of El-Islám]: they used to slaughter camels at the graves of the dead, saying, The occupant of the grave used to slaughter camels for guests during his life, so we repay him by doing the like after his death.

Hence also: he slew him; he destroyed him. An example of this meaning is in the story of Umm-Zara.

It occurs in a tradition of Safeeyeh, in which Mohammad is related to have used the expression on the day the pilgrims returned from Minè, when he was told that she had her menstrual flux; he added, “I see her not to be anything but a hinderer of us.”

According to the relaters of traditions, each word is a maṣdar, like دَعْوَى of the measure فَعْلَى; or, as some say, the ى marks a pause; and عَقْرًا حَلْقًا, which are also maṣdars; and this agrees with the usage of the Arabs.

It is a form of imprecation, though no desire for its taking effect is meant; only blame is intended.

Explained by وَعَقَرَهَا ٱللّٰهُ تَعَالَى وَحَلَقَهَا, that is, [May God (exalted be He) wound her, and] shave her hair, or afflict her with a pain in her throat; or may her body be wounded, and may she be afflicted with a disease in her throat, according to A'Obeyd; or may her leg and her throat be cut; or may her leg be cut and her head shaven; [or may she be destroyed, and may her throat be cut].

Or the two words عقرى and حلقى are adjectives applied to a woman of ill luck, the meaning being that she is one who destroys her people, and cuts their throats, by the effect of her ill luck upon them; they are virtually in the nominative case, as khabar, that is, هِىَ عَقْرَى وَحَلْقَى.

Lh mentions the phrase لَا تَفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ أُمُّكَ عَقْرَى [apparently meaning, Do not do that: may your mother be childless: ] without explaining it, but he mentions it along with the phrases أُمُّكَ ثَاكِلٌ and أُمُّكَ هَابِلٌ.

Or عَقْرَى means Having the menstrual flux.

Imprecating a curse upon a man, one also says جَدْعًا لَهُ وَعَقْرًا وَحَلْقًا, meaning, May God [maim him, and] wound his body, and afflict him with a pain in his throat; and sometimes عَقْرَى حَلْقَى, without tanwīn. [See also 1 in art. حلق.]

Or: he hocked, or hamstrung, his beast.

As though you had hocked my camel, so that I was unable to journey.

ISk cites as an example: [Umm-Khazraj has long detained the party, or people]

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In the A it is said that عَقَرَتْ فُلَانَةُ بِٱلرَّكْبِ means Such a woman, or girl, came out to the riders on camels, and they stayed long with her, as though she hocked the camels they rode.

Ibn-Buzurj.

Meaning صَرْفُهَا حَالًا بَعْدَ حَالٍ. [See صَرْفٌ, third sentence.]

Same as وَقَعَ بِهِ.

and the noun [or quasi-maṣdar, like جَدَادٌ, صَرَامٌ, قَطَافٌ and the like] عَقَارٌ.

The heart is الجُمَّار. The tree then dried up and nothing came out of its trunk.

Also: he cut down the herbage, or pasture, and spoiled it.

Also: he had the herbage for pasturage.

Said of wine: as a man disables a beast by hocking it.

Said also of a camel's saddle, and of a horse's saddle: it galled the beast's back.

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also عَقِرَ.

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See 1.

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It (a camel's or a horse's back) became galled by the saddle; and so اعتقر.

The principal part of a دَار [that is, a country], which is the place where the people dwell, or abide; and so عُقْرٌ, the former of the dialect of Nejd and the latter of the dialect of the people of El-Medeeneh, or of El-Hijáz; or both of the dialect of the people of El-Hijáz.

In the dialect of others the latter means the chief, or main, part of a دار; and it also means the middle, or heart, of a دار.

Or عَقْرُ الدَّارِ and عُقْرُهَا both mean the principal part of a people's place of abode, on which they rest their confidence.

This meaning is exemplified by the tradition of 'Alee; or the meaning here is, in the midst, or heart, of their country, where they abide, or lodge.

Said in another tradition; the principal part apparently points to a time of conflicts and factions, when Syria should be free from them and the Muslims there more secure.

Lth has confounded, in explaining, what is the عُقْر of a دار and what is the عُقْر of a tank or trough for watering beasts.

عُقْرٌ in a palm-tree means barrenness, or a drying up and perishing, caused by having the fibrous substance called لِيف stripped off from the heart and the heart itself taken away; when this is done the tree dries up and perishes.

Hence, from frequency of usage: a woman's dowry; the same as بُضْعُهَا.

Also the examination of a woman to see whether she is a virgin or not; but Az says that this is unknown. [Perhaps it is a meaning inferred from what follows.]

[But what is meant by this I have not been able to learn.]

Or the first egg of a hen, because it wounds her; or her last egg, when she is old and weak; or the egg of the cock, which [they say] he lays once in the year, [or once in his life, for] they assert that it is the cock's egg, because he lays one egg in his life, somewhat long in shape; so called because a girl's or young woman's virginity is tested with it.

Hence, of a thing given one time [only], they say كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ; or, as some say, it is like the phrases بَيْضُ الأَنُوقِ and الأَبْلَقُ العَقُوقُ, so that it is a phrase used proverbially of something that never happens.

According to A'Obeyd, when a miser gives once and not again, one says of the gift كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ الدِّيكِ; and when he gives a thing and then stops doing so, one says of the last time كَانَتْ بَيْضَةَ العُقْرِ.

And بَيْضَةُ العُقْرِ also means one who has no offspring. [See also عَاقِرٌ.] And one who is of no use to another.

Also a place where people alight between the dwelling and the trough, or tank, for watering beasts; and so عَقْرٌ.

Or the hinder part of a trough, or tank, for watering beasts, where the camels stand when they come to water; and so عُقُرٌ.

Or the station of the drinker, as in all the copies of the K; but according to the T and Nh, the station of the animals drinking.

Or the place where the bucket is emptied, at the hinder part of the trough, or tank, the place at the fore part being called its إِزَآء. Plural أَعْقَارٌ.

Said in a proverb, meaning that an affair is carried out only by setting about it in the proper way.

Also the part of a well where the fore feet of the animals watering stand when they drink.

See also عَقْرٌ, in two places.

Also, sometimes, household goods, furniture and utensils that are used only on festivals, and on necessary affairs of great importance, and the like: so, with fet-h, according to AZ and IAar; and sometimes with damm [عُقَارٌ], according to As, though in saying this he differs from most authorities.

Or the best of furniture and the like, because only the best is spread out on festivals; and the best of anything.

Applied to a camel, both male and female, and to a horse or mare: hocked, or hamstrung; having the hock-tendon, or the two hock-tendons, laid bare, so as to be unable to run.

Applied to a horse: struck, or cut, in the legs with a sword; of a camel: having one of the legs cut before being stabbed; having a mark, or wound, like a notch, made in its legs [see 1]. Plural as above. [See also عَقِيرَةٌ.]

[Hence,] applied to a camel, male and female: stabbed; slaughtered by stabbing. Plural as above.

Applied to a palm-tree, as also مَعْقُورَةٌ, and, according to the copies of the K, عَقِيرَةٌ, but correctly عَقِرَةٌ, as in the M: having its head cut off entirely, along with the heart, and having dried up in consequence, so that nothing comes out of its trunk.

A man of high rank who is slain. So in this saying.

A leg, or shank, cut.

The origin of the saying was this: a man had one of his legs cut, or cut off, and he raised it and put it upon the other, and cried out with his loudest voice; so this was afterwards said of anyone who raised his voice.

Or it is explained thus: a man had one of his limbs wounded, and he had camels used to his singing when he drove them, which had scattered from him; so he raised his voice, crying because of the wound, and his camels, hearing, and thinking that he was singing to drive them, came together to him; and hence this was afterwards said of anyone who raised his voice in singing.

Hence: the voice, or a cry — the voice of a singer singing, of a weeper weeping, of a reciter or reader reciting or reading; the utmost extent of the voice or of a cry.

Applied to a man: barren; one to whom no offspring is born; and so عَقِيرٌ.

The former is irregular; [if regarded as from عَقُرَ, not from عَقَرَ; but عَقُرَ, said of a man, I do not find;] the latter is regular; [if from عَقُرَ;] and the latter has not been heard applied to a woman. Plural عُقَّرٌ.

عُقَرَةٌ is also applied to a man, meaning one who comes to women, and feels them, and indulges himself with them in embracing, or pressing to the bosom, but has no offspring born to him.

A tree that does not bear; barren.

In the same way عَقِرَةٌ occurs in a tradition as the name of a certain tract of land, which name Mohammad changed to خَضِرَةٌ; or this may be from the same adjective applied to a palm-tree. [See also عَقِيرٌ.]

Applied to a tract of sand: that produces no plants or herbage, likened to a barren woman; or of which the sides produce plants or herbage but the middle does not; or such as is large; or large and producing no plants or herbage.

Also مِعْقَرٌ, عُقَرٌ and عُقَرَةٌ: a man who galls the backs of camels by tiring them with work, or by urging them hard on a journey.