سُورٌ

The wall of a city [or town &c.]: (S, M, A, Msb, K:) [properly] masculine; but Ibn-Jurmooz, in a verse, makes it feminine, because it is a part of the مَدِينَة: (M:) plural أَسْوَارٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and سِيرَانٌ. (S, K.)

And The upper, or uppermost, part of the head; occurring in a tradition, as some relate it; or, according to others, it is سُورَة; or شُوءُون, which is said by some of the later authors to be the reading commonly known. (TA.)

See also سُورَةٌ, in three places.

And see سِوَارٌ.

Also An entertainment of a guest or guests; (K;) a repast to which people are invited: (Abu-l-'Abbás, TA:) a Pers. word, honoured by the Prophet; (K;) i. e. by his saying to his companions, as is related in a tradition, قُومُوا فَقَدْ صَنَعَ جَابِرٌ سُورًا [Arise ye, for Jábir has made an entertainment, or a repast]. Abu-l-'Abbás, TA.)

[It is also the name of A species of fig, called by Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. cxxiv. and 180,) ficus sur, (not “ mimosa sur, ” as in Freytag's Lex.,) observed by him at Jubleh, in El-Yemen.]