عَسُرَ
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, aorist
عَسُرَ
, verbal noun عُسْرٌ (S, A, O, Msb, K) and عُسُرٌ (S, A, K) and عَسَارَةٌ (Msb, K) [and مَعْسُورٌ and عُسْرَةٌ and مَعْسَرَةٌ and مَعْسُرَةٌ and عُسْرَى (see عُسْرٌ below)]; and عَسِرَ, aorist
عَسَرَ
, verbal noun عَسَرٌ; (S, O, Msb, K;) and
تعسّر, (A, O, Msb, K,) and
تعاسر, (K,) and
استعسر; (A, O, Msb, K;) It (an affair, or a thing, S, A, O, Msb) was, or became, difficult, hard, strait, or intricate. (S, A, O, Msb, K, * TA.) You say, عَسُرَ عَلَيْهِ, (TA,) and عَسِرَ, (S, O,) and
تعسّر, and
تعاسر, and
استعسر, (K,) It was, or became, difficult, hard, strait, or intricate, to him. (S, * O, * K.)
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See also 4.
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عَسُرَ, (Msb,) or عَسَرَ, (IKtt, TA,) or عَسِرَ, (TK,) verbal noun عُسْرٌ and عَسَارَةٌ (Msb, IKtt, TA) and عَسَرٌ, (IKtt, K,) He (a man) had little gentleness, (Msb, IKtt,) فِى الأُمُورِ [in the execucution of affairs]; (Msb;) and was narrow, or niggardly, in disposition: (IKtt:) or he was hard in disposition; or illnatured. (K, * TK.)
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عَسُرَ الزَّمَانُ, (so in the CK and in a MS. copy of the K,) or عَسَرَ, (so in the TA,) Time, or fortune, became severe, rigorous, afflictive, or adverse, (K,) عَلَيْنَا
to us. (TA.
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And عَسَرَتْ, (K, TA,) and عَسَرَتْ بِذَنَبِهَا, (S, O, TA,) aorist
عَسِرَ
, verbal noun عَسَرَانٌ (S, O, K, TA) and عَسْرٌ, (O, K, TA,) She (a camel) raised her tail, after conception, to show the stallion that she was pregnant: (S, * O, TA:) and [as also, apparently,
عسّرت, or عسّرت دَنَبَهَا, verbal noun تَعْسِيرٌ, (see ناقة عَسِيرٌ, voce عَسِرٌ,)] she (a camel) raised her tail in her running. (K, TA.) [In the former case, the action denotes repugnance to the stallion: in the latter, a degree of refractoriness: in both, difficulty.]
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عَسَرَ الغَرِيمَ, aorist
عَسِرَ
and
عَسُرَ
, (S, O, Msb, K,) verbal noun عَسْرٌ; (S, O;) and
أَعْسَرَهُ; (O, Msb, K;) He demanded the debt of the debtor, it being difficult to him to pay it: (S, O, Msb, K: *) and he took it of him, it being difficult to him to pay it, and was not lenient towards him until he was in easy circumstances. (TA.)
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