عَاهِرٌ
1.
An adulterer or a fornicator; (S, O, Msb;) as also
عَهْرٌ [originally a verbal noun]: and
عُهْيَرَةٌ occurs in a tradition in the same sense, as a diminutive of عَهْرٌ: or, according to ISh, on the authority of Ru-beh, عَاهِرٌ signifies one who follows evil, whether by committing adultery or fornication, or by stealing: (O, TA:) or, as in the L, whether by committing adultery or fornication, or by transgressing [in any other manner], or quitting the way of truth or justice, or forsaking the command of God;
أَوْ فَاسِقًا being put in the L in the place of او سَارِقًا: (TA:) or any one who does that which induces doubt, or suspicion or evil opinion, or doubt combined with suspicion or evil opinion: (A, TA:) plural عُهَّارٌ. (Ham p. 131.) It is said in a tradition, الوَلَدُ
لِلْفِرَاشِ وَلِلْعَاهِرِ الحَجَرُ, (S, Mgh, O, &c.,) i. e., The child is for the master of the bed, (Mgh, Msb, TA,) meaning, the husband (Msb, TA) of the child's mother, or, if she be a slave, her owner; (TA;) and for the adulterer, or fornicator, disappointment; (Msb;) meaning, he shall have no right of relationship, (A'Obeyd, S, Mgh, O, Msb,) nor any share in the child: (TA:) like the saying لَهُ التُّرَابُ, (A'Obeyd, Mgh, O, Msb,) which means “ [he has, or shall have, or may he have,] disappointment, ” (Msb,) or “ nothing: ” (Mgh, O, TA:) for some of the Arabs used to establish relationship arising from adultery or fornication; therefore the law annulled this: (Msb:) some, however, explain it agreeably with the apparent [or literal] meaning, and for the adulterer, or fornicator, stoning. (Mgh.) [See also article حجر.]
2.
Also عَاهِرَةٌ (AZ, S) and عَاهِرٌ, (K, TA,) if not a verbal epithet, [but a possessive epithet meaning properly ذَاتُ عِهْرٍ,] (TA,) A woman who comes to a man by night for the purpose of
فُجُور [adultery or fornication], or by day; as also
مُعَاهِرَةٌ (K) and
مُعَاهِرٌ: (CK: [but this is apparently a mistake:]) an adulteress or a fornicatress; as also
مُعَاهِرَةٌ (AZ, S, O) and
عَيْهَرَةٌ; (S;) which last is originally
عَهَرَةٌ, like ثَمَرَةٌ, with an augmentative ى: (Th, Mbr:) or عَيْهَرَةٌ signifies a woman light, or active, and volatile, (Kr, O, K,) who does not remain fixed in her place, (Kr, O,) without continence: (K, not added by Kr:) and
عَهِرَةٌ signifies the same as عَاهِرَةٌ, applied to a woman. (O, TA.)