عُرَّةٌ

Also Madness, or such as is caused by diabolical possession, affecting a man: You say, بِهِ عُرَّةٌ In him is madness, &c. (S, O.)

Dung, such as is called بَعَر, and سِرْجِين, (S, O,) or سِرْقِين, (Mgh,) [i. e. dung of horses or other solid-hoofed animals, and of camels, sheep and goats, wild oxen, and the like,] and that of birds; (S, O, K;) as also عُرٌّ: (O, K:) and human ordure. (O, K.) It is said in a tradition, لَعَنَ اللّٰهُ بَايءِعَ العُرَّةِ وَمُشْتَرِيَهَا i. e. [God has cursed, or may God curse, the seller of] سرقين [or perhaps the meaning may be human ordure, and the buyer thereof], (Mgh.)

Dirt, or filth. (Msb.)

(assumed tropical:) Filthiness in the natural dispositions. (O.)

(tropical:) A thing that exposes its author to disgrace; a vice, or fault, or the like. (O, Msb, TA.) See also مَعَرَّةٌ. [And see عُرٌّ, voce عَرٌّ. Hence,] عُرَّةُ النِّسَاءِ (tropical:) That which disgraces women; their evil conversation or behaviour, with others. (TA.)

As an epithet applied to a man, (S, O, Msb,) (assumed tropical:) Dirty, or filthy; as also عَارُورٌ and عَارُورَةٌ: (S, O:) [or] having an intensive signification [as though meaning “ dirt, ” or “ filth, ” itself]: (Msb:) (assumed tropical:) a man who is the disgrace of the people [to whom he belongs]: (K:) a man sullied, or bespattered, with evil. (IDrd, O.) And one says, فُلَانٌ عُرَّةُ أَهْلِهِ meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is the worst of his family. (TA.)

Also (assumed tropical:) The act of doing an abominable, or evil, thing, to another. (K.)