مَعَرَّةٌ
1.
A place of
عَرّ, i. e. mange, or scab: this is the primary signification. (TA.)
2.
Hence, المَعَرَّةُ
The region of the sky that is beyond the Milky Way (المَجَرَّة) in the direction of the North Pole; so called because of the multitude of the stars therein; (O, * TA;) like as the sky is called الجَرْبَاءُ because of its numerous stars; these being compared to scabs on the body of a man: (TA:) and to this and the مَجَرَّة a man alluded, when, being asked respecting the place where he alighted and abode, he informed the inquirer that he alighted and abode between two tribes, (O, TA,) great and numerous; (O;) saying, نَزَلْتُ بَيْنَ المَعَرَّةِ وَالمَجَرَّةِ [I have alighted between the
مَعَرَّة
and the
مَجَرَّة]: (O, TA:) or, as some say, (O,) المَعَرَّةُ is the name of a certain star, or asterism, [which is] below the
مَجَرَّة [or Milky Way, apparently meaning when the latter, as viewed from Arabia, is seen stretching across the sky above the North Pole]. (O, K.)
3.
[Hence likewise, apparently,] مَعَرَّةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) A cause of reviling, or of being reviled; synonym مَسَبَّةٌ: (TA:) a crime, or sin; synonym إِثْمٌ; (S, O, Msb, K;) and جِنَايَةٌ; (TS, L, TA; in the copies of the K خِيَانَة; [and thus in the O;] but this is a mistake; TA;) and جُرْمٌ; (TA;) as also
عُرَّةٌ: (K:) or a crime, or sin, [that is noxious] like the mange, or scab: (L, TA:) a foul, or an abominable, thing: (O, TA:) a cause of grief or vexation: (Mgh, Msb:) annoyance, or hurt; or a thing by which one is annoyed or hurt; synonym أَذًى; (Sh, Mgh, K;) or أَذِيَّةٌ: (O:) displeasing, grieving, or vexing, conduct: (Mgh, Msb:) and i. q.
شِدَّةٌ [apparently as meaning violence, or the like]. (O: there mentioned between the significations of إِثْمٌ and أَذِيَّةٌ.) Also (assumed tropical:) The slaying unexpectedly, (S,) or the fighting, (O, K,) of an army, without the permission of the commander: (S, O, K: [omitted in one of my copies of the S:]) or the alighting of an army among a people, and eating of the produce of their fields without knowledge (Sh, O, TA) of the commander: (O:) or an army's oppressing, or assaulting, those by whom they pass, whether Muslims, or unbelievers with whom terms of peace have been made, and afflicting them in respect of their women under covert and their possessions by conduct not permitted to them. (TA.)
4.
And (assumed tropical:) A debt, fine, or mulct, which one is obliged to pay: and a fine for homicide: (K, TA:) thus explained by Mohammad Ibn-Is-hák Ibn-Yesár: (TA:) or a thing that one dislikes, or hates, relating to fines for homicide; of the measure مَفْعَلَةٌ from عَرٌّ signifying “ mange, ” or “ scab. ” (Th, TA.)