Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

وَشَرَ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. وَشْرٌ, (TA,) He sawed a piece of wood with a مِيشَار; a dial. form of أَشَر; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) i. q. نَشَرَ. (Ḳ.)

وشَرَتْ, aor. تَشِرُ, (Mṣb,) inf. n. وَشْرٌ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) She (a woman) sharpened (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ) her teeth, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or her canine teeth, (Mṣb.) and made them thin [and serrated], (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) meaning their edges: (TA:) [as also أَشَرَتْ.] See وَاشِرَةٌ.

استوشرت She (a woman) asked for her [teeth or] canine teeth to be sharpened and made thin [and serrated]. (Mṣb.)

وُشُرٌ a dial. form of أُشُرٌ [A serration and a sharpness of the extremities of the teeth]. (Ṣgh, Ḳ.)

وَاشِرَةٌ A woman who sharpens and makes thin [and serrated] the [teeth, or] canine teeth. (Mṣb.) It is said in a trad., لَعَن ٱللّٰهُ الوَاشِرَةَ وَالمُوتَشِرَة [May God curse her who sharpens and makes thin and serrated the teeth, or the canine teeth, and her who orders one to do this, or who asks for it to be done]. (Ṣ, TA.) An old woman does this in order to make herself like the young. (TA.)

مُؤَشَّرُ العَضُدَيْنِ, applied to the beetle, [meaning, Having the fore-shanks formed thin, and serrated;] as also without ء. (Ḳ.)

مِيشَار, without ء, A saw; a dial. form of مِئْشَارٌ. (Ṣ,* Ḳ.)

مُوتَشِرَةٌ A woman who orders one to sharpen teeth and to make them thin [and serrated]: (L:) or who asks for this to be done; as alsoمُسْتَوْشِرَةٌ↓: (Ḳ:) if with ء, it is from أَشْرٌ, not وَشْرٌ; and if without ء, accord. to the regular way it should be مُتَّشِرَةٌ. (Ḳ.)