عَاشُورَاءُ

and ↓ عَشُورَاءُ (Msb, K) and عَاشُورَى (Msb, K) and ↓ عَشُورَى (K) and ↓ عَاشُورٌ, (Msb, K,) or يَوْمُ عَاشُورَاءَ (S, O, and K in article تسع, &c.) or يَوْمُ العَاشُورَاءِ (S in that article, &c.) and يَوْمُ عَشُورَاءَ, (S, O,) The tenth day of the month El-Moharram: (S, Msb, K:) or the ninth thereof, (K,) according to some; but most of the learned, of old and late times, agree that it is the former; (Msb in article تسع;) and AZ says that by the ninth may be meant the tenth; after the same manner as the term عِشْرٌ, relating to camels' coming to water, is [said to be] applied to a period of nine days, [but means the coming to water on the tenth day, counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first,] as Lth says, on the authority of Kh. (TA.) Few nouns of the measure فَاعُولَاءُ have been heard. (Az, TA.)