عَرِينٌ

A collection of trees, (S, Msb, K, TA,) tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense; a thicket, wood, or forest: (TA:) this is the primary signification; (S, Msb, TA;) whether there be in it a lion or not. (TA.) And [particularly] A collection of thorn-trees, (K, TA,) and of such as are called عِضَاه; whether there be a lion therein or not. (TA.)

And [hence], as also ↓ عَرِينَةٌ, The covert, or place of resort, of the lion, (S, Msb, K,) and of the hyena, as also ↓ عِرَانٌ, and of the wolf, and of the serpent: and the former signifies also the burrow of the [lizard called] ضَبّ: plural عُرُنٌ. (K, TA.)

And (hence, TA) عَرِينٌ signifies also (tropical:) An open, or a wide, space, in front, or extending from the sides, of a house, [in this case meaning a yard,] and of a town, as, for instance, in this latter case, of Mekkeh, occurring in this sense in a tradition, likened to the place of resort of the lion, because of its resistibility. (TA.)

And (hence also, TA) (tropical:) Eminence, or nobility; and might, strength, or resistibility. (K, TA.)

-A2- Also Such as is dry and broken of the [trees called] عِضَاه. (K.)

-A3- And Flesh: (S, K:) so it is said to signify. (S.)

And The prey of the lion, or the like. (K.)

-A4- And The cry of the [dove called] فَاخِتَة: (K, TA:) so in the T in article عزهل. (TA.)