أَشْرَسُ

: see شَرِسٌ. Hence, (O,) الأَشْرَسُ The lion; (O, K;) as also ↓ الشَّرِسُ, (O,) or ↓ الشَّرِيسُ; (K;) because of his evil disposition. (O.)

And Bold, or daring, in fight: (O, K:) or this is a mistranscription for أَشْوَسُ, mentioned in the T as having this meaning. (TA.)

Also i. q. أَفَظُّ [More, and most, evil in disposition or illnatured &c.]. (TA in article فظ.)

عَثَرَ بِأَشْرَسِ الدَّهْرِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [He stumbled upon, or chanced to meet with,] hardship, calamity, or adversity: a prov. (O, K. [In Meyd (and so in Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 96,) الدَّهْرِ ↓ عَثَرْنَا بِشِرْسِ, and explained as lit. meaning the trees called شِرْس.])

See also شَرْسٌ.