يَاسِرٌ
1.
See يَسْرٌ.
2.
[Taking the left-hand side or direction: or coming on, or from the direction of, the left hand of a person:] opposite of يَامِنٌ. (S.)
3.
[Dividing a thing into parts, or portions.]
4.
[Hence,] The slaughterer of a camel: (K, TA:) because he divides its flesh into portions: (TA:) the person who superintends the division of the slaughtered camel (M, K) for the game called
المَيْسِر: (K:) plural [يَاسِرُونَ and] أَيْسَارٌ: (M, K:) A'Obeyd says, I have heard them put يَاسِرٌ in the place of يَسَرٌ, [for the explanations of which see what follows,] and
يَسَرٌ in the place of يَاسِرٌ, (M,) or
يَسَرٌ and يَاسِرٌ signify the same: and the plural is أَيْسَارٌ: (S, A:) يَاسِرٌ signifies [as explained above, and also] a person who plays with gaming-arrows, (S, Msb, TA,) [at the
game called
المَيْسِر,] for a slaughtered camel; because he is one of those who occasion the slaughter of the camel; and the plural is [as above and] يَاسِرُونَ: (TA:) and
يَسَرٌ, i. q.
ضَرِيبٌ [which signifies the same; and the person who is entrusted, as deputy, with the disposal of the arrows in the game above mentioned, and who shuffles them in the
رِبَابَة:] and, [as quasi-plural of يَاسِرٌ, like as خَدَمٌ is of خَادِمٌ,] a party assembled together at the game called
المَيْسِر: (M, K:) plural أَيْسَارٌ: (M:) and
يَسِيرٌ and
يَسُورٌ signify one who contends with another at a game of hazard; synonym قَامِرٌ: (K:) or
يَسَرٌ and
يَسُورٌ, and also يَاسِرٌ, are applied to one who has, or to whom pertains, a gamingarrow. (IAar, TA.)