إِزَارٌ
1.
, masculine and feminine, and
إِزَارَةٌ, and
مِيءْزَرٌ, (S, Msb, K,) and
مِيءْزَرَةٌ, (Lh,) and
إِزْرٌ, (K,) A thing well known; (S, Msb;) [a waist-wrapper;] a wrapper for covering, or which covers, the lower part of the body, [from the waist downwards, concealing the thighs, and generally the upper half, or more, of the shanks, (see أَزْرٌ, or أُزْرٌ, and إِزْرَةٌ,)] not sewed: or such as is beneath the shoulders, or on the lower half of the body: the رِدَاءِ is that which covers the upper half of the body; or that which is upon the shoulders and back; and this also is not sewed: each of these explanations is correct: (MF:) or i. q.
مِلْحَفَةٌ: (K:) [in the present day, إِزَار, vulgarly pronounced إِيزَار, is also applied to a woman's outer covering, or wrapper, of white calico; described in my “Modern Egyptians:” and
مِيءْزَرٌ, to a pair of drawers: and apparently, in post-classical writings, to anything resembling a waist-wrapper, worn on any part of the person, and in any manner; sometimes as a turban:] and إِزَارٌ also signifies anything with which one is veiled, concealed, or covered: (Th, K:) its plural is ازِرَةٌ, (S, Msb, K,) a plural of pauc., (S, Msb,) and (of mult., S, Msb) أُزُرٌ (S, Msb, K) and أُزْرٌ, (K,) which is of the dialect of Temeem, or, according to MF, a contraction of أُزُرٌ: (TA:) and the plural of ميءزر is مَازِرُ (Msb.) You say,
شَدَّ لِلأَمْرِ مِيءْزَرَهُ (tropical:) He prepared himself for the thing, affair, or business. (A.) And
شَدَّ المِيءْزَرَ (tropical:) He abstained from sexual intercourse: or he prepared himself for religious service. (TA, from a tradition) And اِخْضَرَّ إِزَارِى (tropical:) (The place of) my
ازار
became black: or, rather, became of a [blackish] hue inclining to green: because the hair when it first grows is of that hue. (Har p. 494.) And دَارِى إِزَارِى [My house is my covering]: said by Es-Sarawee to IAar, on the latter's expressing his surprise at the former's walking in his house naked. (TA.)
2.
(tropical:) Continence; chastity. (K, TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ عَفِيفُ الإِ زَارِ, and
المِيءْزَرِ (tropical:) Such a one is continent, abstaining from women with whom it is unlawful to him to have commerce: (A 'Obeyd:) and in like manner, فُلَانٌ طَيّبُ الإِزَارِ. (TA in article حجز.)
3.
(tropical:) One's wife: (S, M, K:) or one's self: (IKt, Suh:) or one's wife and family: or one's family and self. (TA.) One says, فِدًى
لَكَ إِزَارِى(tropical:) May my wife be a ransom for thee: (Aboo-'Omar El-Jarmee, S:) or myself. (IKt, Suh.) And it is said in a tradition respecting the vow of allegiance made at the 'Akabeh, لَنَمْنَعَنَّكَ
مِمَّا نَمْنَعُ مِنْهُ أُزُرَنَا (tropical:) We will assuredly defend thee from that from which we defend our wives and our families: or ourselves. (TA.)