صِيرٌ

The ulterior or ultimate, latter or last, state, or condition; the end, conclusion, event, issue, or result; of a thing, an affair, or a case; (S, M, O, Msb, K;) as also ↓ صَيْرٌ (O, K) and ↓ مَصِيرٌ (S, O, Msb, TA) and ↓ مَصِيرَةٌ (TA) and ↓ صَيُّورٌ, (S, M, K,) of the measure فَيْعُولٌ, (S,) and ↓ صَيُّورَةٌ. (K.)

The verge, brink, or point, of an affair, or event. (M, K.) You say, أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ أَمْرِ كَذَا I am on the verge of such an affair, or event. (M.) And أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ حَاجَتِى I am at the point of [attaining] the object of my want. (M.) And أَنَا عَلَى صِيرٍ مِنْ قَضَاءِ حَاجَتِى I am at the point of accomplishing my want. (A.) And فُلَانٌ عَلَى صِيرِ أَمْرٍ Such a one is at the point of accomplishing an affair. (S.)

-A2- A water at which people stay, or abide; (M, O, K;) as also ↓ صِيرَةٌ. (TA.)

-A3- A crevice of a door. (S, M, A, Msb, K.) It is said in a tradition, مَنْ نَظَرَ فِى صِيرِ بَابٍ فَفُقِيءَتْ عَيْنُهُ فَهِىَ هَدَرٌ [Whosoever looks into the crevice of a door and has his eye put out, it is a thing for which no mulct is to be exacted]: (S, M:) A'Obeyd says that this is the only instance in which the word [in this sense] has been heard. (S.)

-A4- [The condiment, made of small fish, called] صِحْنَاة: (S, M, K:) or [a condiment, or the like,] resembling صحناة: (M, K:) or what is called in Pers. مَاهِى اوَهْ [jelly of salted fish]; as also صِحْنَاةٌ: (Mgh voce صحناة:) and the small salted fish of which صحناة is made: (Kr, M, K:) or the young ones of fish: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة: (Msb:) thought by IDrd to be Syriac; (TA;) by IAth, to be Pers., as also صحناة. (TA in article صحن.)

-A5- Also The أُسْفُفّ [properly bishop] of the Jews. (O, K.)

-A6- See also the next paragraph.