Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

مَعِرَ, [aor. ـَ {يَمْعَرُ}, inf. n. مَعَرٌ,] said of a man, (Ṣ,) and of the head, and of the tail, (TA,) His or its hair fell off; (Ṣ, TA;) as alsoتمعّر↓, said of the head: (TA:) and the former said of the head, its hair became little, or scanty. (TA:) and مَعِرَتْ, said of the forelock, (النَّاصِيَة, Ḳ,) or of that of a horse, (TA,) it lost all its hair: (Ḳ:) and مَعِرَ, said of a solid hoof, it lost the hair that hung down upon it from the fore part of the pastern. (TA.)

مَعِرَ, (A, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَمْعَرُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. مَعَرٌ, (Ṣ, TA,) said of hair, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) and of plumage, and the like, (Ḳ,) It fell off; (Ṣ, A;) as alsoتمعّر↓, said of hair: (Ṣ, A:) or it became little, or scanty; as alsoأَمْعَرَ↓: (Ḳ:) and, said of a finger-nail, or toe-nail, ‡ it came out, or fell out, (A, Ḳ,) in consequence of something befalling it, or hurting it. (Ḳ.) See مَعَرَّةٌ in art. عر.

[Hence,] مَعِرَ, (TA,) or مَعِرَ مِنْ مَالِهِ, (A,) ‡ He became poor; (A, TA;) as alsoأَمْعَرَ↓, (Ṣ, A,) inf. n. إِمْعَارٌ; (TA;) or the latter, he became poor, and his travelling-provisions failed or became exhausted; as alsoمعّر↓, inf. n. تَمْعِيرٌ. (Ḳ.)

[Hence also,]أَمْعَرَتِ↓ الأَرْضُ ‡ The land became destitute of herbage: or its herbage became little, or scanty: (Ḳ:) contr. of أَمْرَعَت. (IḲṭṭ.)

see 1, in the three places.

أَمْعَرْنَا ‡ We came upon a land destitute of herbage: (A, TA:) or we found dearth, scarcity, drought, or sterility: (TA:) and امعر القَوْمُ the people became afflicted with dearth, scarcity, drought, or sterility. (TA.)

امعرت المَوَاشِى الأَرْضَ ‡ The beasts pastured upon the land, (i. e., its trees or herbs, TA,) and left no pasturage in it. (TṢ, L, Ḳ.)

امعرهُ † He despoiled him of his property, (Ḳ, TA,) and reduced him to poverty. (TA.)

مَعِرٌ A man, (Ṣ,) and a head, (A,) whose hair is falling off, or has fallen off; (Ṣ, A;) as alsoأَمْعَرُ↓ andمُتَمَعِّرٌ↓: (A:) or having little hair; (TA;) as alsoأَمْعَرُ↓: (Ṣ:) and the first and second, a camel's foot (خُفّ) of which the hair (both شَعَر and وَبَر) has gone: andمَعْرَآءُ↓, a forelock (نَاصِيَة, Ḳ, or that of a horse, TA,) of which all the hair has gone. (Ḳ.)

Hair, and plumage, and the like, little in quantity, or scanty; as alsoأَمْعَرُ↓: and the latter, hair falling off. (Ḳ.)

[Hence,] ‡ A man who is niggardly, or avaricious, having little beneficence; (Ḳ;) unpropitious, mean, and hard, or difficult. (TA.)

† A man having little flesh. (TA.)

قَاعٌ مَعِرٌ, and أَرْضٌ مَعِرَةٌ, ‡ A plain, and land, destitute of herbage: (A:) or the latter, accord. to Yaạḳoob, land having little herbage: andمَكَانٌ أَمْعَرُ↓ a place having little herbage. (Ṣ.)

أَمْعَرُ: fem. مَعْرَآءُ: see مَعِرٌ, throughout.

Also, of a solid hoof, † The hair that hangs down upon it (Ḳ, TA) from the fore part of the pastern: because it has a disposition to fall off. (TA.)