ع • س • ك • ر

, a Pers. word arabicized, (Ibn-El-Jawá- leekee, Mgh, Msb, K, *) from لَشْكَرٌ, (Mgh, TA,) An army: (S, A, O, Msb:) pl. عَسَاكِرُ. (A, O.) You say, العَسْكَرُ مُقْبِلٌ, and مُقْبِلُونَ, The army is coming, and are coming. (Th, TA.) A collection. (A, K.) A large number, or quantity, of anything: (A, K:) as, of men, and of camels or other property, and of horses, and of dogs. (TA.) The camels or sheep or goats of a man, collectively. (Az, O, TA.) You say, إِنَّهُ لَقَلِيلُ العَسْكَرِ Verily he has few beasts. (TS, O, TA.) (assumed tropical:) The darkness of night. (TA.) عَسَاكِرُ الهَمِّ (assumed tropical:) Anxieties, coming one upon another, consecutively. (O, TA.) See also مُعَسْكَرٌ. [Hence,] العَسْكَرَانِ 'Arafeh and Minè (عَرَفَةُ وَمِنًى): (S, A, O, Msb, K:) because places of assembling. (Msb.)

[The man collected an army]. (S.) عَسْكَرْتُ الشَّىْءَ I collected the thing. (Msb.) عَسْكَرَ القَوْمُ The people collected themselves together, (K,) بِالْمَكَانِ in the place: (TA:) or the people fell into difficulty, distress, or adversity: (K:) or into dearth, scarcity, or drought. (TA.) عَسْكَرَ اللَّيْلُ The night became densely dark. (O, K.)

Difficulty, distress, or adversity: (S, O, K:) and dearth, scarcity, or drought. (K.) Tarafeh says,

ظَلَّ فِى عَسْكَرَةٍ مِنْ حُبِّهَا

i. e., He became in a state of difficulty, or distress, by reason of love of her. (S, O.)

Collected together. (Msb.) -A2- And The place where an army collects itself; (S, * Msb;) as also ↓ عَسْكَرٌ. (TA.)

Collecting an army; or a collector of an army. (S, * Msb.)